DevOps Engineer (Active Top Secret Clearance Required)
Fawkes IDM, United States

A web and mobile applications development company is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their growing team. This person will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting an AWS-based architecture for hosting a large, complex Drupal web portal for their client.

Responsibilities Include:

• Managing virtual Linux servers, databases, storage buckets, load balancers, network interfaces.
• Planning and implementing an automated infrastructure for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes.
• Building an application-wide monitoring solution and client-facing health dashboard.
• Writing automated tests including headless-browser scripting and traffic load testing.
• Troubleshooting web application issues and infrastructure challenges, and clearly communicating technical issues to other team members and clients.
• Supporting a medium-sized team of Drupal developers, including building development environments and assisting and mentoring junior developers.
• Planning and estimating future DevOps tasks using agile project management methodologies, and participating in daily scrum meetings to coordinate with the development team.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience of PHP and at least one other scripting language: Python, Ruby, Java, or Node.js.
• Significant experience with Amazon Web Services, especially EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, SNS, IAM, ELB/AutoScaling, CloudWatch, ElastiCache and ElastiSearch.
• Strong proficiency in Drupal 7, familiarity with common modules and technical approaches to implementing common web application functionality, knowledge of Drupal development best practices, and a clear mental model of Drupal’s core APIs.
• Strong Linux command line and Bash scripting skills; clear understanding of SSH security and credentials management.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools such as Nagios and Splunk.
• Knowledge of Git workflows for code management, version control, and release cycles.
• Experience using Chef, Puppet or Ansible to manage server configurations in a production environment, and comfort with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment processes.
• Knowledge of SQL and experience managing large MySQL/MariaDB databases in a production environment.
• A solid understanding of modern HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification preferred

MUST HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or relevant and comparable experience).
• US Citizenship.

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