System Engineer Devops Contract to Hire DMV area
Posted 2 days ago by 1757821277
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
USA
Summary: The role is for a System Engineer with a strong background in DevOps or AWS, specifically for a client in Reston, VA. Candidates must be local to the DMV area, as onsite interviews are required, and they will need to provide after-hours support for deployments. The position involves a mix of remote or hybrid working arrangements, with monthly onsite travel required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide system engineering support with a focus on DevOps and AWS.
- Travel onsite once a month for meetings and support.
- Offer after-hours support for application release deployments and maintenance activities.
- Collaborate with peers to share knowledge and improve processes.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or 5 years of relevant work experience.
- 5 years of experience in software, DevOps, and/or cloud systems engineering.
- Cross-platform enterprise experience across IT (Server, Network, Storage, Security).
- Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, especially with Jenkins using Groovy.
- Proficiency in container-based technologies, especially Kubernetes and AWS CloudFormation.
- Understanding of microservice concepts.
- Expert scripting skills in Bash and Python.
- Technical knowledge of AWS managed services (VPC, EC2, EKS, Sagemaker, Bedrock).
- Experience with code management systems (Git).
- Experience maintaining Java web applications (Spring Boot).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Reston
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Must be local to DMV - onsite interview is required.
Vega is hiring! System Engineer with strong DevOps or AWS experience for our direct client located in Reston, VA. Candidates will be required to travel onsite once a month and provide after hours support for Off hours/ weekend deployment schedule
Qualifications
- Education Level: Bachelor's Information Technology Degree or 5 years of relevant work experience
- Experience: 5 years of software, DevOps and/or cloud systems engineering
- Must have cross platform enterprise experience across IT (Server, Network, Storage, Security).
- Must be a highly motivated individual with strong analytical, problem solving and multi-tasking skills complimenting a passion for learning/sharing information from and with peers.
- Must be able to be available for weekend support based on the application release deployments and maintenance activities.
Requirements:
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, especially with Jenkins using Groovy, Expert
- Understanding of container-based technologies, especially Kubernetes, AWS CloudFormation, Podman, AWS EKS, Expert & Proficient
- Understanding of microservice concepts, Proficient
- Scripting skills (Bash, Python), Expert
- Technical knowledge of AWS managed services (VPC, EC2, EKS, Sagemaker, Bedrock), including monitoring and analytics tools such as AWS CloudWatch
- Experience with code management systems (Git) - Expert
- Experience maintaining Java web applications (Spring Boot)
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal., Proficient