POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for driving adoption while simultaneously managing and scaling our infrastructure and tools for modernizing our integration, testing and deployment systems. This role requires a highly motivated individual capable of working independently in a rapidly evolving technical environment. The ideal candidate will be someone with a hybrid developer/system administration background.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Define and execute a vision for modernizing our products and keeping our platform(s) highly available and efficient
Work closely with development and QA teams to understand and exploit opportunities to advance technical practices that allow us to reach engineering goals faster
Design, develop and support solutions which facilitate ease of service deployment, availability and operations
Own and define CI/CD best practices and guide the deployment with a practical set of pipelines
Help the team mature automated deployment and container utilization strategies
Develop and maintain custom built applications used to provide integrations
Work with our Network Operations, Development and Technical Services teams to develop a practical cloud deployment strategy
Provide objective insight to development team for driving down escalations, team efficiencies, and product uptime

Essential Duties

On call 24/7

Qualifications:

BS in Computer Science or related field
Experience building CI/CD pipelines
Experience with containerization and related technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins)
Experience with administering / monitoring infrastructure on bare metal, private/public cloud or hybrids (Azure, AWS, Open Stack, VM’s, etc.)
Strong interpersonal skills that can drive conversations in cross-team efforts towards consensus and action
Strong communication skills, with ability to cater discussions to all levels in organization (individual contributors, team leads, manager, director, VP)
Understanding of Web development technologies
Can work autonomously with minimal direction
Years of experience in a similar role:

Required: Two years

Education:

Required: Bachelor’s degree

Desired: Microsoft or AWS certification

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Standing
10% per day
Sitting
80% per day
Walking
5% per day
Stooping
5% per day
Lifting
Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. unassisted
Computer Work
80% per day
Telephone Work
10% per day
Reading
10% per day
Other, please specify

This role can be Remote which would allow most work to be performed at home; however, the Employer is a Federal Contractor and subject to federal vaccination mandate. Employees must be fully vaccinated to come onto any of DSS, Inc’s sites or Client sites.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

If you need an accommodation seeking employment with DSS, Inc., please email jobs@dssinc.com or call (561) 284-7373. Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis.