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ID #20052762
State District of Columbia
City Washington
Job type Contract
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source DISYS - Digital Intelligence Systems, LLC
Showed 2021-09-22
Date 2021-09-21
Deadline 2021-11-19
Category Et cetera
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Lead RHEL Infrastructure Engineer

District of Columbia, Washington, 20024 Washington USA

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Position: Lead RHEL Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Washington DC – 100% REMOTE until further notice

Job Type: 12 months Contract – Possible Extension

Job description:

Hiring Manager Notes:
  • Need (2) RHEL Leads who can support the RHEL migration project
  • Client is getting a lot of Linux Admins, but this is not a Linux Admin role. Tech stack: Heavy middleware experience, heavy RHEL experience, Tomcat, Ansible
  • Need strong technical leadership skills. Needs hands on experience to assist with troubleshooting, triage and produce solutions.
  • Anyone they bring in must be able to automate things. Not doing anything by hand
  • In the next 3 years, will be moving from AIX to Linux. These two positions will lead and drive platform needs
  • AWS is plus but not required.

Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of overall experience in IT including, with hands-on Development and Systems engineering background
  • Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives
  • Experience with Aix to RHEL/Tomcat Transformation efforts
  • 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role
  • Experience with SRE principles and transformation
  • 3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google, etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
  • Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)
  • Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience:
  • Building robust Middleware Environments
  • Scripting and process Automation experience
  • Extensive knowledge of Java/J2EE methodology and frameworks
  • Extensive RHEL and Scripting experience
  • Extensive knowledge of Tomcat
  • Knowledge of WAS and MQ Series
  • Ability to analyze and trouble-shoot Mid-tier/infrastructure issues.
  • Very strong verbal and written communication skills (Critical)
  • Ability to facilitate technical requirements gathering and design sessions
  • Collaborate and interpret business and technical needs
  • Excellent attention to detail and deliver quality work products (Critical)
  • Strong Customer service skills with internal and external customers (Critical)
  • Must be able to perform assigned tasks independently with minimum supervision (Critical)
  • Strong analytical and documentation skills
  • Excellent time management ability (Critical)

Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs
  • Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, operations, and refinement
  • Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
  • Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity
  • Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts
  • Be part of our Cloud journey and as a member of our team help lead Software automation and reliability for our platform
  • Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
  • Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities
  • Build and Execute strategy to migrate Legacy applications from AIX/WAS to RHEL/Tomcat
  • Research on the global technology trends and their applicability to CLIENT products in support of our internal development teams and business.
  • Promote and ensure Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
  • Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Maintain and continually improve (patch and upgrade) our Cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Makes Data-driven recommendations and decisions, and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capability.
  • Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.

Requirements: Strong skills are required in each of the following areas:

Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java ,Groovy, Go, etc. IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in: Ansible, Terraform, Yaml, Rhel, Tomcat Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers

DevOps Tools: Git/bitbucket, Jira, Ansible/Puppet, Jenkins/Circleci/Bamboo, Maven/Artifactory/Nexus, etc.

Others:
  • Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture
  • Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills
  • Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills
  • AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc.
  • Experience with DEVOPS or IAAS
  • AIX
  • LDAP
  • EIAM (Identity Access Management)
  • Network
  • IBM DataPower
  • Pega or Rules Engine

Additional Skills:
  • Strong Automation background is required. Ability to lead technical discussions, Troubleshooting and think end to end across infrastructure Stacks.
  • Please note Position is not for a RHEL Administrator

Digital Intelligence Systems, LLC (DISYS)is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

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