Lead DevSecOps/OpenShift (Kubernetes) Engineer - $80 CTC - HYBRID (Local Candidates within 2 hours of Lansing ONLY)

Job Description:

***Crop to Crop resumes are accepted
Location Requirement: Remote or On-site: Accepting local candidates within 2 hours of Lansing ONLY. Position will be hybrid, in office 2 days a week upon start and there is NO REMOTE ONLY option.

This position functions as lead DevSecOps/Azure DevOps/OpenShift (Kubernetes) engineer responsible for supporting large State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Health Services (DHHS) projects. Contributes considerable business and technical knowledge to complex IT projects. The DevSecOps / OpenShift (Kubernetes) Engineer will provide leadership and direction, mentoring team members to drive organizational maturity. The DevSecOps/ OpenShift (Kubernetes) Engineer will also consult with development teams to ensure platform fit is aligned to the business application requirements. Additionally, understanding of APIs, micro-services development, containers and supporting platform technologies is also required

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), Designing and Implementing ADO Wiki, Work Item structures, Pipelines, ADO GIT repos/branches/Pull Requests, and related Standards and Processes.
• Hands on experience in automating CI / CD needs on RedHat OpenShift / OCP, Linux, Windows, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
• Experience creating ADO Build and Deploy Pipelines to build Apps and container images and deploy using standard ADO tasks and for old and new Java and .Net Apps and integrating with Apache Tomcat, JBoss, SQL Server, Windows, Linux, Oracle, etc.
• Experience producing Documents for Process and Automation.
• Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift V4.
• Troubleshoot the application issues in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment.
• Experience in creating Build, Deployment, and other CRD config files for applications on OpenShift.
• Hands-on experience in creating Docker and S2I images, Stateful sets and converting existing docker image to an S2I image and vice versa.
• Working knowledge on OpenShift/Kubernetes and Container Orchestration, Custom Helm charts
• Knowledge on maintaining docker Image Repository like Quay
• Experience and ability to creating docker files, images, and containers.
• Work collaboratively with teams to ensure our products are successfully deployed, upgraded, and maintained.
• Deep knowledge and experience with Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) version 8.X and higher.
• Elastic stack administration, performance and capacity management including Index curation/retention management.
• Logstash and pipeline configuration and grok experience.
• Working knowledge of Elastic Beats Filebeat, Heartbeat.
• Working Experience with SonarQube/Coverity/Black Duck and integrating into ADO Pipelines and Pull Request flows
• Experience with Linux Scripting, .ksh , bash and Python.
• Experience in understanding and debugging Java errors.
• Strong Knowledge of SSL, TCP/IP Networking, LDAP.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills works well with diverse teams and independently
• Self-starter with excellent organization, planning, detail-oriented documentation, and time management skills
• Clear and precise verbal and written communication skills. Easy to understand.

Required Experience and Skills

• A total 8 years of experience working on Kubernetes / OpenShift.
• 8 years of experience in Linux shell scripting
• 5 years as in expert in application containerization management
• Experience in DevSecOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/programming
• 5 years of experience with following skill sets
  o OpenShift
  o Azure DevOps
  o ELK Stack
  o Docker
  o SonarQube
  o Black Duck
  o Linux
  o Bash
  o Shell
  o S2I
  o Python
  o NGINX
  o WebSphere
  o LDAP