DevOps Automation Engineer at The Buffalo Group (Reston, VA)

The Buffalo Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

U.S. Citizens Only - Willing to Undergo Security Clearance Processing

We are currently prioritizing candidates with active DoD Security Clearances. 

DevOps Automation Engineer Summary

The DevOps Automation engineer builds and manages the infrastructure to develop, deploy and automate applications developed by our engineering and development teams. You’ll use SAFe continuous integration tools like Jenkins to manage applications in the cloud (AWS).  This hands-on role involves working with the engineering and operations departments, building and maintaining production environments to ensure uninterrupted delivery of critical applications to the end-users.

Responsibilities & Duties

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• Manages, builds, configures, administers, operates, and maintains all components that comprise the DevOps environment in the cloud
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• Develops and maintains scripts to automate deployment to the cloud using orchestration tools, and other tools, to include scripting and maintaining build environments. Resolve complex UNIX/Linux systems administration issues. Secure operating systems against compromise and ensure compliance with infrastructure, security, data center hosting, and other policies
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• Develops, tests, and maintains a system recovery plan using cloud services
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• Works with other project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment in the cloud.
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• Defines enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices, develop automated testing framework within DevOps processes.  Integration with Windows and Linux platforms using API web services (eg REST, JSON, XML).
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Qualifications & Skills

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• Extensive familiarity with scripting (eg PowerShell, Python) languages for automation techniques.
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• Familiar with orchestration tools (eg Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Cloud Foundation) and the software development process. Have experience with Git.
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• Experience with Splunk or willingly to learn and get certified.
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