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DevOps Engineer Lead

  • Blue Cross blue shield
  • Herndon, VA, 20190
  • Contract > 12 months
  • Experienced
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Job Description:

Remote Initial Duration of Assignment: End of Sept 2023 Convertible talent is required
GC / USC 
Ex Fannie Mae is better if not local 
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The client is seeking an IT Engineer III to plan and execute software engineering development projects, utilizing advanced software and hardware engineering principles, software architecture, as well as various standards such as CCITT, OBF, ISO. Uses both hardware and software engineering expertise to apply theoretical principles and methodologies to accomplish complex software engineering assignments. An IT Engineer is responsible for IT project planning, design, business analysis, development, test and vendor management.

Job Responsibilities:
Complete configuration, installation and support of equipment to the specifications of the business.
Maintain software applications and operating systems through regular maintenance.
Maintain configuration and support documentation.
Manage assigned projects and program components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
Supervise the administration of systems and servers to ensure availability of services to authorized users.
Maintain multi-site network operations, software applications, operating systems through regular maintenance.
Troubleshoot malfunctions of hardware, software applications and security systems to resolve operational issues and restore services.
As a lead DevOps system engineering expert on the team, you will act as lead automation DevOps engineer for storage and backup engineering team.
As a valuable colleague on our team, you will design, develop, test, and maintain moderate to complex cloud automation templates for AWS Cloud, Google cloud using terraform and in the future Azure for our storage and data protection services and solutions.

Required Experience:

- Extensive knowledge in backup, recovery, and data protection solutions for the hybrid multi-cloud (On-prem, AWS Cloud, Azure, GCP, etc.…)
- Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Python, CloudFormation, Terraform.
- Experience defining and managing changes to documents, code, computer programs, and other files to enable collaboration and ensure teams are working from the latest version
- Experience with Backup solutions – NetBackup, Modern Backup solutions and BaaS
- Experience with CICD pipelines (i.e. Jenkins, Gitlab, or other tools) with building and/or configuring pipelines for build and deployment of software
- Experience in DevOps infrastructure automation (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc).
- Experience designing and building service catalog on AWS, which includes working with services like Amazon Backup, FSx, EFS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda
- Experience with storage protocols and technologies such as NFS, SAN, CIFS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NetApp Filers and object storage concepts
Skills
- Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing and cloud data protection
- Familiar with storage products – DellEMC, NetApp, DDN,
- Familiar with Backup solutions – NetBackup, Modern Backup solutions and BaaS
- Any cloud certification is plus



Tools

- Skilled in Python object-oriented programming
- Skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings and development
- Skilled in AWS Management and Governance suite of products such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch and integration with Splunk.
- Experience using JIRA
- Experience using Git
- Skilled in using UNIX
- Skilled in AWS Developer tools (CI/CD) such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeStar, or CodePipeline
- Scripting and automation (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.



Education/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
5-7 years experience required.
Broad knowledge of IT Systems engineering.
Experience with system capacity and planning, as well as functional configuration and audit.
Experience with system planning and capacity tools and analyses.
 
Must Have
Fannie Mae Specialized Skills
AWS Codebuild    Yes
AWS CodeCommit    Yes
AWS Codedeploy    Yes
AWS ElasticCache (Redis)    Yes
AWS EMR    Yes
FNMACompany Default Category
4-7 years engineering experience in IT environment    4 years
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering or related field    Yes
Experience in implementation methodologies and the application development environment    Yes
Knowledge of the appropriate business functional area and the business    •    
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Proven leadership experience    Yes
Proven management skills    Yes
Do the resources need to be convertible talent?    
    Yes
 


Company Description:

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is a federation of 35 separate United States health insurance companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 106 million people

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