DevOps Engineer

With more than 100 locations worldwide, Robert Half Technology is a leading provider of IT professionals on a project and full-time basis for initiatives ranging from web development and systems integration to network security and technical support.

DevOps Engineer Needed for our Midvale based client.

• Provides Operational Support to Developers while acting as a liaison between Infrastructure and Development teams.
• Perform legacy software deployments while providing direct feedback to the automation team for continued transition to continuous deployment.
• Work with engineers to create and maintain documentation for infrastructure systems, policies and procedures.
• Coordinate with System Engineers and other OSAs to help ensure standardization of technologies between different projects.
• Help promote Systems Engineering projects to the development team.
• Participate in and serve as a resource for infrastructure related projects.

Required Skills

• Strong communication skills.
• Strong documentation/writing skills.
• Strong Administration knowledge of Linux based OSs, especially CentOS/Redhat 6.x or higher.
• Understanding of JAVA/JVM stack and deploying WAR files.
• Understanding of Hybrid Cloud concepts.
• Understanding of Virtualization, including public clouds like AWS.
• Automate tasks using Configuration Management Tools like (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack)
• Scripting experience in one or more of Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash.
• Performance tuning and monitoring using tools like Nagios/Cacti/etc.
• Upgrading and patching
• Self-starter with a strong ability to use initiative and work autonomously under tight commercially sensitive deadlines
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong service oriented focus with a customer service attitude

Required Experience

• 2+ year experience as a Linux administrator
• Strong analytical skills. Solid foundation in working with various flavors of Unix/Linux operating systems on heterogeneous hardware platforms.
• Certification (preferred, not required)
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience preferred, not required).