DevOps Engineer

Capital One
McLean VA
Phone and then WebEx
 
Responsibilities & Expectations:
• Plan and lead the deployment of the cloud solution in a production environment
• Develop scripts and glue code to integrate multiple software components
• Automate the provisioning of environments pulling strings with Puppet, cooking up some recipes with Chef, or through Ansible, and the deployment of those environments using containers, like Docker or Rocket: (and for the love of automation, at least have some configuration management tool through some version control)
• Design and develop automation workflows, performing unit tests and conducting reviews to make sure your work is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for platform performance, and assessing the overall quality of delivered components
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are necessary due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering team, solving complex business problems together
• Evaluate & build different compute frameworks for all tiers 
• Implementing scalable system solutions is required
• We're looking for self-starters, those who can work independently, with and across teams. Establishing smooth running environments is paramount to your success, and happiness
• Serious geek street cred if you have a robust portfolio on GitHub and/or Open Source contributions of which you are proud to share!
• Discerning. You have a strong familiarity with a combination of the following: VMWare, KVM, OpenStack, CloudStack, Amazon, RightScale and various Cloud abstraction layers, and understand the importance of selecting the right technology tool for the task
• Insatiably Curious. You ask why, you explore, you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea. You can work at a tiny crack until you've broken open the whole nut
• Automator. You know what continuous integration means, and believe automation is the path to happiness. You know how to script and automate anything and everything, from tests to environment provisioning


Basic Qualifications: 
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or military experience
• At least 1 years' experience developing applications embracing Agile principles 
• At least 1 years' experience with a formal version control tool (Git preferred)
• At least 2 years' with large-scale infrastructure designs, implementation, and support

Preferred Qualifications: 
• Master's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or Engineering
• AWS Certified
• 5+ years' experience with Functional Programming concepts and modern scripting languages, (Javascript preferred) and frameworks 
• 2+ years' creating recipes with Chef, building cookbooks
• 3+ years' using cloud based hosting solutions (AWS-EC2/S3, Azure, Google Cloud)
• 3+ years' with automation tools for server provisioning and Open Source tools (Ansible, Cobbler, Ironic, Chef and Chef Metal)
• 3+ years' developing automation workflows and routines, using Open Source Tools (Chef, Puppet, Jenkins), or Vendor Based Tools (HPSA/OO, vCAC, uDeploy)
• 3+ years' experience with large-scale software implementation (high transaction volume, high-availability concepts)
• 2+ years' experience with Linux, server automation and scripting
• 2+ years' experience with current licensing strategies around Open Source (Apache Foundation, GNU, MIT License)
• 2+ years' experience with building web applications heavily using Javascript