Join us at Sparksoft, where we're not just another tech company—we're a catalyst for change. Our mission isn't just to offer IT solutions; it's to revolutionize the way you work. Here, passion isn't just a buzzword; it's the fuel behind groundbreaking ideas and transformative technologies. We serve a wide range of government clients, delivering impact that's felt across the nation.
Our true strength lies in our people. They're the problem-solvers and innovators consistently delivering extraordinary outcomes. With Sparksoft, you're not stepping into a routine job; you're joining a team committed to innovation and excellence. Our innovation extends beyond just delivering projects. Through our specialized Innovation Centers, we continuously refine our methods, ensuring we remain industry leaders.
We are Sparksoft!
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Description
- Experienced in various AWS services and tools, including support for Tier-3 escalations with vendors, solid skills, and experience with Kubernetes/Openshift and various CI/CD tools to ensure continuous compliance and delivery.
- Deep understanding into the inner workings of OpenShift, working on managing operators, customizing OpenShift installations and addressing feature requests with automation wherever possible
- Primary focus on the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) activities within the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
- Assist in tuning and resolving the bottlenecks for various operational and performance challenges.
- This role is responsible for managing configuration items for the project.
- Establish and maintain consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.
- Develop and maintain the Configuration Management Plans and release management processes to promote validated features and deploy them into the production environment following the CMS Agile XLC.
- Control, plan and direct all aspects of planned software updates and code promotions, ensuring that only approved and validated changes are introduced. Work closely with CCB. Present at ORR and IRR.
- Support in enhancing the platform functions and operations, continuously evolving in terms of ease of operations, improved performance, and monitoring the workloads simplified.
- Also, support the on-call rotation model during the peak and non-peak periods for continued operations.
- Full-stack knowledge is a plus to help manage DevSecOps workflow that deploys containerized applications to OpenShift.
Responsibilities:
- Be a part of the team that will provide engineering solutions for OpenShift towards operations and onboarding.
- Onboarding business workloads, support troubleshoot and triage problems.
- Be a part of the team that provide multitier support (Tier 1 to Tier 3), including the 24/7 escalation schedule.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as code using Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform and Puppet.
- Design automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions and integrate workloads to containerized workflows with automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with Agile scrum teams or tenants to establish and manage Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Integrate code analysis tools such as Sonar Cube, Fortify into the CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide access management to Infrastructure and DevOps tools.
- Troubleshoot Infrastructure issues, collaborate with AWS support for resolution.
- Develop automation to reduce the routine manual effort.
- Provide recommendations for enhancing system performance via analysis and potential modifications.
- Develop solution for Monitoring, Alerting, and Trending with AWS Cloudwatch, SNS, New Relic and Splunk etc..
- Engineering resources are expected to be available 24/7 for incident response during mission- critical events, commensurate with standard Marketplace SLOs / SLAs during the events.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
- 8+ years of IT experience
- 4+ years of relevant experience.
- DevOps Experience in AWS Cloud environment is a must using services like EC2, AWS S3, IAM, VPC Peering, RDS, NAT Gateway etc..
- In depth knowledge in Openshift/Kubernetes, preferably 4.x, ArgoCD and GitOps
- Experience with System configuration tools like Ansible.
- Experience in creating Build, Deployment config files for applications on OpenShift.
- Firsthand experience in building CI/CD pipelines with Red Hat OpenShift/OCP
- Proficient scripting skills in Perl/python/shell scripting
- Good communication skills, self-motivated and positive attitude to work independently in a team environment.
- Languages Frameworks: Java, Python, Go, Bash Scripting, Ansible Playbooks, etc.
- Tools (Plus): New Relic, Splunk, Ansible Automation Platform, Jenkins.
- Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Candidates must have lived in the United States 3 out of the past 5 years
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Comprehensive understanding of cloud delivery models: PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS.
- Knowledge, skills, and abilities to deploy OpenShift Container Platform in both public and private cloud.
- AWS Sysops administrator, DevOps engineer certifications are a plus.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:
- Bachelors in computer science, Information Technology or equivalent.
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What We Do
Sparksoft helps the clients achieve their business objectives by providing Innovative, best-of-breed software products and technology solutions at substantial cost savings. Sparksoft Team has considerable industry experience with wide range of leading companies.
