DevOps Application Admin (5+ Years Exp)

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DevOps Application Admin (5+ Years Exp)

Job Summary

Mid-level application administrator with experience in installation, configuration, build, deployment, migration, refreshes, backups, and troubleshooting. Experience in audit, compliance, and governance is a plus. Understanding the importance of application security and control is essential.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth integration of code changes into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Automate deployment, scaling, and management of applications using containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Manage and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Ansible, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Work with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues.
- Implement and maintain version control systems like GitHub for code repository management.
- Utilize GitHub Actions to automate workflows and build/test processes.
- Develop and maintain documentation related to infrastructure, deployment processes, and best practices.
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in DevOps, containerization, and automation.

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for software applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and other relevant tools.
- Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions for automating workflows and build/test processes.
- Proficiency in Jenkins for building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of Git and experience with GitHub for code version control and repository management.
- Experience with Ansible for infrastructure automation and configuration management.
- Strong knowledge of Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with scripting languages like Shell Script, Python, or Ruby.
- Knowledge of the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana) for log parsing and proactive monitoring is a plus.
- Knowledge of Apache Tomcat and HTTPD.
- Working knowledge of monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana is a plus.
- Familiarity with code analysis tools like Nexus Sonar/Sonatype NexusIQ is a plus.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases like Cassandra.
- Understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Working knowledge of Terraform.
- Experience with Agile frameworks (such as Scrum) is preferred.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

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