DevOps Engineer (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a DevOps Engineer for our client in Charlotte, North Carolina. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

The DevOps Systems Engineer will perform the following job functions:

• Provide in-depth analysis of platform, system errors and performance issues
• Perform application deployment, migrations, and upgrades
• Ownership of problem root cause analysis and remediation
• Chronic issue investigation for critical application issues
• Lead proactive monitoring review and implementation
• Works with engineering, Development Support, and/or infrastructure teams to implement server or application changes, fixes, upgrades and remediation
• Proactive application stability analysis – investigate performance concerns, error analysis, improve maintenance processes, automation, and resolution of open issues
• Vendor escalation for production issues
• Coordinate and perform disaster recovery exercises for supported applications
• On call support for platform incidents, production releases, migrations, or upgrades

Required Skills:

• In-depth experience supporting/administering enterprise level SDLC tools. This includes experience in Application Lifecycle Management /CICD tools including Cloudbees Jenkins, Redhat Ansible, Xebia XLR and SonarQube.
• Demonstrates strong analytical and strong task management skills.
• Knowledge and strong experience with application and infrastructure monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Tivoli, Sitescope, and Introscope.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong attention to detail
• Strong negotiation and mediation skills as well as an ability to be diplomatic in dealings with a variety of areas across the company.
• 7+ years systems support, infrastructure, and engineering experience
• 7+ years production application support
• 5+ years working with Enterprise Linux and/or MS Windows Server in an administrative format
• 5+ years’ experience with Apache Tomcat administration
• 5-7 years technical Systems architecture & design
• 5-7 years’ experience with Linux Shell scripting or Powershell scripting
• Exposure and familiarity with application development lifecycle methodologies such as version control and SDLC.
• Familiarity with version control tools such as Bitbucket, TFS , GIT strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting Cloud hosted environments, virtual servers, high availability platforms and clustering
• Knowledge of infrastructure components such as SAN, NAS, DNS, Load balancing, etc
• Ability to effectively communicate/present to all levels of the organization, including executive management
• Willing and able to work after hours and weekends when required to support multiple time zones
• Must be highly motivated and a self-starter
• Must have the ability to work independently and be part of a team
• Demonstrates strong desire to learn new technologies and enhance skillset

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting Oracle and PostGres 10 or higher databases.

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