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DevSelect

Sr. DevOpps Architect - Chef/Puppet

Bellevue, WA · On-site

$73.25 - $93.50/hr

Possess working knowledge of object oriented and scripted programing. * Pull strings with Puppet and cook some recipes up with Chef. Be comfortable using and adapting to different configuration ...

Aureus Tech Systems

DevOps Engineer

Jersey City, NJ

$55 - $75.50/hr

Devops Engineer Location :NY, Minneapolis MN, TX, NC Key Skills:- Chef & using .Net Application ... Puppet Configuration management on AWS Should have hands on experience on SCM tools (GIT and SVN ...

Aureus Tech Systems

DevOps Engineer

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

$55 - $75.50/hr

Company Description Devops Engineer Location :NY, Minneapolis MN, TX, NC Key Skills:- Chef & using ... Puppet Configuration management on AWS • Should have hands on experience on SCM tools (GIT and ...

Quantix

DevOps Engineer

Denver, CO · On-site

$54.25 - $74.25/hr

Job Title: DevOps Engineer Location: Denver, CO Type: Direct Hire Our client in the Denver ... This person should have a solid background working with Chef, Puppet, and/or Ansible. Additionally ...

Business Integra

DevOps Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$61.75 - $84.75/hr

... Puppet, Chef and Ansible • Experience of deploying applications like Akka, Cassandra ... • Devops • Chef, Puppet, Ansible. • AWS, Jenkins, • Python, • Elastic search • ...

Jobsbridge

DevOps Engineer

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$50.75 - $69.50/hr

Config Mgmt: Ansible, Puppet, Chef * Binary Repository Manager - Nexus/Artifactory * Build system - Maven, Ant, * OS - RHEL, Centos, * Prototyping: Vagrant, VMWare Workstation/Fusion Qualifications ...

Jobsbridge

DevOps Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$61.75 - $84.75/hr

... Devops engineer to support the devops platform which includes * Java - strong development ... BASH, Python, Perl * Config Mgmt: Ansible, Puppet, Chef * Binary Repository Manager - Nexus ...

Artech Information System LLC

DevOps Engineer

Charlotte, NC

$51.50 - $70.50/hr

... cost. DevOps Engineer (16-20457) 12 months contract with possibility to extend Charlotte NC (in ... Will manage Puppet Blueprint configurations to implement changes on OpenStack cloud environment.

1 point system

DevOps Engineer

Plano, TX · On-site

$50.50 - $69.25/hr

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, Puppet Certified Professional, Docker Certified Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator ...

Jobsbridge

DevOps Engineer

Reston, VA · On-site

$55 - $75.25/hr

GitHub, BitBucket, DevOps,Puppet Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Jobsbridge

DevOps Engineer

Irvine, CA

$56.50 - $77.50/hr

GitHub, BitBucket, DevOps, Ansible, Puppet Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Jobsbridge

DevOps Engineer

Reston, VA · On-site

$55 - $75.25/hr

GitHub, BitBucket, DevOps,Puppet Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

AG Technologies

DevOps Engineer

Saint Louis, MO

$51.25 - $70.25/hr

Coding/scripting within Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Open Source. Coding/scripting using Ansible. Working knowledge of the Atlassian tool suite Ability to re-engineer processes as necessary ...

Jobsbridge

DevOps Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA

$62 - $84.75/hr

Be it core Java, full-stack Java, Web/UI designers, Big Data or Cloud or Mobility developers ... Puppet, Chef, Ancible, or Jenkins or similar products; with a preference for Puppet Be ...

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Sr. DevOpps Architect - Chef/Puppet

Sr. DevOpps Architect - Chef/Puppet

DevSelect

Bellevue, WA • On-site

$73.25 - $93.50/hr

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Job description

Title: Sr. DevOpps Architect - Chef/Puppet
Location: Seattle Area
Openings: 1
Type: Contract or Contract-to-Hire
Level: Senior
Responsibilities
  • Provide business, data, application and technology consulting for IT team members and business partners.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to the IT teams for project level architecture and design work.
  • Review and approve project level architecture and designs for IT projects and create these artifacts as needed on large, complex initiatives.
  • Lead team in providing business, application, and technology consulting.
  • Deeply analyze business processes and technologies to discover and refine client's needs.
  • Work collaboratively with clients with varying expertise and exposure to DevOps in order to solve complex problems.
  • Develop solutions to varying challenges using:
    • Languages such as: Ruby, Python, Node.JS (Javascript), RSpec.
    • Tools such as Puppet/Chef, Vagrant, Packer, Beaker.
  • Possess working knowledge of object oriented and scripted programing.
  • Pull strings with Puppet and cook some recipes up with Chef. Be comfortable using and adapting to different configuration management tools as required by clients and to compare/contrast their merits..
  • Mentor delivery team technical leads and developers.
  • Possess strong verbal and written communication skills in order to adapt to the dynamic nature of discussions with other engineering and product teams.
  • Act as a liaison with other architects (security, infrastructure, data, etc.) and with delivery teams working primarily within an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) methodology.
  • Translate requirements into functional service designs and create service models along with supporting documentation (activity and sequence diagrams).
  • Seek out and identify opportunities to reuse enterprise technology services.
  • Ensure service designs adhere to standards, principles and governance processes.
  • Provide design documentation in sufficient detail to estimate effort and validate final implementation.
  • Perform peer reviews of designs and solution proposals to ensure conformance to current practice and quality of work being generated.
  • Ability to write unit and acceptance tests for modules.
  • Ability to implement scalable architecture.

Qualifications
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years' experience in systems architecture.
  • 4+ years' Open-Source Software tools and development experience in one or more of the following: Ruby, Python, Node.JS (Javascript), RSpec, Puppet/Chef, Vagrant, Packer, Beaker.
  • 3+ years' experience developing applications using agile principles.
  • 2+ years' experience with a formal configuration management tool such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or SaltStack
  • 2+ years' experience using Source Control tools such as Git or Subversion. Git knowledge is a must.
  • 3+ years' experience integrating automation workflow tools (Jenkins/Hudson/uDeploy) with configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet/SaltStack/Ansible)
  • 2+ years' experience using cloud based hosting solutions (AWS-EC2/S3, Azure, Google Cloud)
  • 1+ years' experience designing and implementing horizontally-scalable applications.
  • Formalized Puppet training / certification.
  • Experience with RSpec/Serverspec/Beaker for unit/acceptance tests (or similar for other tools)
  • Experience installing, configuring, and managing scalable Configuration Management master servers
  • Software development or DevOps automation background

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