Senior DevOps Configuration Engineer
Location: Arlington, VA
Duration: 12+ Months
 
10+ years of experience is must
 
Description:
Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps Configuration Engineer to join a small team of highly skilled cross-functional experts to support our overall software development and infrastructure engineering activities.  On this team you will work directly with our larger organization and will have a degree of autonomy to collaboratively learn, plan, design, implement, and operate modern best practices in DevOps.  Strong candidates will be comfortable with full-stack software and Microsoft server architectures and be able to implement and support infrastructure setup, deployment automation (continuous integration and delivery), configuration management, and related tools integration or development.
 
Responsibilities
DevOps Best Practices Implementation
Server setup, configuration, and support
Research, evangelize, and implement best practices and tools for DevOps, continuous integration, build automation, deployment automation, and configuration management
Setup, maintenance, and administration of application lifecycle management tools, such as Team Foundation Server, GitHub, TeamCity, and custom CM database applications
Develop software solutions to support DevOps tooling; including implementation of bug fixes, feature enhancements, and content updates.
Participate in the full systems life cycle with solution design, development, implementation, and product support using Scrum and other agile practices
Server setup, configuration, and support.
Build, create, migrate, and troubleshoot engineering cohort of servers in new and existing development, test, and production environments
Work with data center provider and DBAs to architect and configure SQL Server environments optimized for both OLAP supporting the data warehouse and OLTP supporting transactional systems in a VMWare as well as physical server environments
Work with data center provider to optimize environment for high availability and failover using AlwaysOn technology.
Work with data center provider to ensure server availability after OS, malware or virus protection patching.
Configure applications on Microsoft IIS web servers and Windows servers, runtime binding, compile time binding, and DLLs
Script and use server and application monitoring tools
Actively Maintain Collaborative Team Relationships
Plan, estimate, manage, and monitor team progress using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and other issue tracking software
Assist in the testing and user acceptance of web pages and applications
Assist with tier 2 and 3 supports for server and network environment issues as the go-to technical person for server or network issues, supporting the Service Operations team
Understand client application architecture in order to provide support for troubleshooting and application issue resolution
Work with application development team to make recommendations to enhance the stability, availability, performance and security of Client application assets
Qualifications
 
Required
Bachelor’s Degree required (prefer Computer Science or Engineering emphasis)
10+ years of experience in the job offered or a related DevOps or engineering position
Extensive experience with deployment automation, PowerShell, and command line scripting
Experience programming/developing in a .NET environment using Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013+ or VSO, HTML, JavaScript, ASP.NET, C#, .Net, or SQL Server (or comparable experience)