Role: DevOps Engineer III

Location:Lawrence, KS

Duration: 6 Months

Responsibilities:

• Builds and deploys Cloud-based applications in lower environments.
  
• Build and maintain the production infrastructure and services.
  
• Documents the deployment procedures, policies, set up & generate builds, coordinate, PPV, troubleshoot issues with the deployments on various environments.
  
• Migrating existing applications to Cloud infrastructure.
  
• Assist in integration of applications on designated platforms and resolves any issues with deployment and configuration.
  
• Liaison with other groups within IT (EAO, IPO, Release Management, Software Test and Change Management) in their daily activities to ensure smooth transition from one environment to another and on-time delivery of applications
  
• Participate in the planning process. Recommend modification to existing processes and new procedures to solve complex problems considering the existing system limitations, operating time and desired results.
  
• Enforcement of IPO Security and Engineering standards. Ensure proper security for the infrastructure.
  
• Configure and set up new environments for testing
  
• Network infrastructure such as firewalls, load balancers and implementation of applications into complex network environments
  
• Assists in diagnosing and solving production issues.
  
• Coordinates production deployment activities with various partner applications and infrastructure vendor
  
• Monitors application and server status in support of software deployment.
  
• Monitors the performance of the application by running performance tests in lower environments
  
• Troubleshoot performance issues and provide guidance to the off-shore testing team during test planning and test execution phase
  
• Troubleshoot production issues
  
• Develop/maintain processes, tools, and documentation in support of production.
  
• Participate in the evaluation of new software, hardware, and infrastructure solutions.
  

Skill set required:

• Good working knowledge and understanding of software development technologies (Java/J2EE, HTML)
  
• Strong Unix skills. Shell scripting is must.
  
• AWS Experience Required, certification is desired.
  
• Working experiences with tools like WinSCP and Putty
  
• Knowledge on Internet/File protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP etc.
  
• Knowledge of SVN, or other major version control tools
  
• Experience in Ant and Maven build technologies
  
• Hands on application deployment experience
  
• Working knowledge of Networking and network topologies such as routers, firewalls
  
• Knowledge of SQL, able to write complex queries.
  
• Working knowledge on Apache (modjk, Load balancers and SSL)
  
• Working experience with JBoss application server such as setting up the cluster environment.
  
• Experience with continuous Integration tools such as Hudson or Jenkins.