job summary:
Randstad Federal is seeking a Devops Engineer in support of a federal program at FEMA

location: RESTON, Virginia
job type: Contract
salary: $70 - 80 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:
We are currently looking for a DevOps Engineer who will:

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using industry standard practices for container based and cloud-based applications
  
  
• Work with product management to translate requirements into technical design and provide estimates
  
  
• Help design, document, and maintain system artifacts including, but not limited to, solution architecture and information workflow diagrams
  
  
• Support Agile-based activities and responsibilities including, but not limited to, the following:
  
  
  • Scrum cadences
    
    
  • Epic and user story development and tracking
    
    
  • User story blocker analysis and resolution
• Build and maintain relationships with project team members and client stakeholders
  
  
• Report on common sources of technical issues or questions and make recommendations to clients
  
  
• Assist application teams with triaging cloud and Kubernetes-based issues
  
  
• Design solutions with security in mind

• Work closely with teammates and clients to deliver high-quality, code driven solutions
  
  
• Identify and resolve bugs and inefficiencies in current solutions
  
  
• Manage multiple tasks and priorities at one time
  
  
• Adhere to Agile development methodology, and have the ability to demonstrate and apply scaled Agile framework (SAFe) fundamentals and best practices
  
  
• Possess experience with the following technologies:
  
  
  • Docker and Openshift or related container orchestration tool
    
    
  • Jenkins or other CI/CD tools
    
    
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other major cloud provider
    
    
  • Git and Gitlab
    
    
  • Scripting in Ansible, Terraform, bash, python
    
    
  • RHEL and Windows operating systems
    
    
  • Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB
    
    
  • Java and Angular applications
• Provide feedback to teammates on technical implementation, documents and code reviews

• US Citizenship and ability to pass a Public Trust background check.
  
  
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer science or related field
  
  
• 3+ years of DevOps experience
  
  
• 3+ years software engineering experience
  
  
• 2+ years of working with Google Cloud and the related services and tools within Google Cloud.
  
  
• 2+ years of setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  
  
• Ability to work independently and to be a self-starter and able to operate in a proactive way
  
  
• strong analytical and problem-solving skills; logical thinker and intellectual curiosity

• Experience working with Atlassian suite of project management tools (JIRA, Insight, Confluence).
  
  
• Foundational or advanced knowledge of Linux and operating system security

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 3 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors