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Consultant- DevOps Engineer
AltaSource Group is looking for a DevOps Engineer for our global wealth company in Chicago, IL!
As a DevOps Engineer you will be joining a motivated team of professionals working to engineer infrastructure solutions for entire breath of the firm, including Portfolio Managers, Analysts, Quants, Marketing, Compliance and Operations. You will gain exposure to a variety of partners at all levels, from Senior Technology leaders to Senior Business partners. In addition, you will obtain exposure and experience in the latest technologies. They are adopting a wide array of technology and approaches from some of the most proven Open Source projects to tried-and-true enterprise platforms.
The team facilitates change to a range of business areas, front, middle and back-office. This role will be a contributor for defining and implementing their overall approach to DevOps for now and into the future. The right candidate is someone with a passion for infrastructure development and understands that automation incorporated organizations lead to a competitive advantage.
This position will involve the build out of both strategic distributed systems as a greenfield development and the improvement and migration of current and legacy systems.
Day to Day, you will:
Ensure technical expectations of deliverables are met on projects.
You are directly involved in building and testing deployment pipelines, automated provisioning of infrastructure.
You will work with practices, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration.
You have hands-on knowledge with container technology (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Fargate).
Attend and participate on daily-stand-ups.
Maintain, support and deploy all products that are required for software development and delivery.
About You:
Learning doesn t stop. You are perpetual student to all aspects of DevOps engineering and methodologies, it is a passion of yours.
An eagerness to learn and improve each and every day.
You ll be drawing on all of your passion for technology, hands-on experience and knowledge of latest DevOps Engineering best practices to help you gain the respect and credibility of those around you.
Communication is critical to our success. You must be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of partners, managers and subject matter experts.
You are constantly looking for a new and exciting challenge. You must be able to demonstrate the ability to contribute within the change team to tackle challenging requirements and tight timescales.
Your knowledge and skill-set should include:
Strong expertise in advanced AWS services, moving beyond Infrastructure as a Service to enable rapid, reliable, and scalable deployments.
Solid understanding of the practical application of DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code.
Experience with set-up and maintenance of continuous integration tools (CodeDeploy/CodeBuild).
Some experience with set-up and maintenance of automated testing tools.
Passion for and ability to work with software engineering teams releasing production-ready software on a daily basis.
Experience administering application servers, web servers and databases (Nginx, Microsoft IIS, SQL Server, Postgres).
Proficiency in building Linux and Windows systems (RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows).
Expert knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Powershell, etc.).
You have a working level of knowledge in the networking and security (IAM) space.
Understanding of complex event-driven solutions.
Experience with application performance monitoring and using data to determine appropriate scale.
Experience with messaging and data streaming platforms.
Automation Testing: Selenium, NUnit
Monitoring: Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana
Logging: ELK Stack
Pay Rate: Up to $75/hr. DOE
Note: This position is an onsite contract role with the potential to extend or convert full-time. Our client is unable to consider candidates who require H1 visa sponsorship for this role. Please no corp-to-corp or 1099.
About AltaSource Group:
AltaSource Group is a rapidly growing leader in technology consulting services that enables companies to advance in the digital world. We provide 100% company paid medical, dental and vision for our employees! Additional employee benefits include a free Employee Assistance Program, available flex spending accounts, available 401K program, and local discount programs through Passport.
We are proud to say we have a Glassdoor rating of 4.9!
Your recruiter for this role will be: Evan McCoy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/recruitingace/
Platform: AWS
Scripting: Bash, Powershell
Languages: Python
Templating: CloudFormation
Tooling: Jenkins, SonaType Nexus, SonarQube, Chef, Checkmarx, Docker
Development Methodologies: Agile
Messaging: SQS, Kafka
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
Containerization: ECS, Fargate, OpenShift
Source Code Management: Git based
