Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

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Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP) offers a diverse solution portfolio that allows organizations to better align strategy to execution. Our four core disciplines - Management Consulting, DevOps, Software Quality Management and Organizational Development - provide the visibility, planning, and agility needed to accelerate strategic change. Today, more than hundreds of organizations have made the right business improvements to optimize processes, instill governance, ensure security, build future leaders and capitalize on success. Founded in 1996, VIP has delivered measurable results for commercial, federal and state and local organizations big and small. VIP has offices across the U.S., including its corporate headquarters in Folsom, CA. For more information please visit www.trustvip.com.

Join VIP: A strategic approach to accelerate your career! This role is remote to start and based at the client site in Salt Lake City.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will have knowledge and experience necessary to help deliver efficient, fault-tolerant and secure platforms for the Client's industry leading SaaS products. In this role, you will work with other dedicated Solution Engineers and share responsibility for the design, implementation, and support of our expanding physical and virtual server infrastructure spanning several geographically diverse offices and data centers.

Responsibilities include:

• Have a strong working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery in the Agile context
• Research, evaluate, and recommend architectural improvements and new technologies
• Install, upgrade, and maintain operating systems and application software across our mixed environment of Linux and Windows servers
• Work closely with our technology partners to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems
• Have experience working in highly virtualized public and private cloud environments
• Ensure thorough health, performance , and security architecture is actively promoted
• Know how to use configuration management and orchestration tools to rapidly deploy and manage highly consistent, prescriptive environments
• Understand ITIL concepts and how to apply them effectively in the enterprise
• Recognize the importance of and be able to generate excellent documentation and diagrams
• Have effective written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate a proven ability to learn and grow through self-study
• Consider themselves a collaborative service provider to our intra-business customers
• Participate in a periodic on-call rotation with other team members
• Able to implement and maintain Logging, Monitoring, Alerting as needed, ie Dynatrace, Splunk
• Experience with F5 load balancers is a plus

• 8+ years of enterprise systems engineering and DevOps experience, preferably in a customer facing environment with increasing responsibility
• Experience with Virtualization (VMWare) and containerization (Docker / Kubernetes)
• Experience with Agile CI/CD development tools such as Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jenkins
• Linux (CentOS / RHEL 7.x) - Senior-level administrator
• Windows Server experience (2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016)
• Scripting experience with emphasis on Bash, Python, and PowerShell
• Thorough understanding of common protocols and services, including: DHCP, DNS, FTP(S), HTTP(S), LDAP, SIP, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, TCP, UDP
• Experience using orchestration and configuration management tools (e.g., Salt, Chef, Puppet)
• Experience using ServiceNow or other similar CMS / SKMS
• Bachelor's degree in an information technology related field or equivalent work experience