Elite Technical is seeking a Senior Level DevOps Software Engineer to support our customers journey of building out pipelines for delivery teams. The responsibilities include execution of full life cycle activities in support of multiple DevOps tools which will include but not limited to:

- Work directly with architect, principal and lead engineer, and other team members on design and implement tasks.
- Plan and build roadmaps for the EKS and AWS DevOps Implementation.
- Build Applications with EKS and AWS best practices
- Accountable for meeting milestones.
- Conduct code review, unit and integration testing.
- Document system design and unit testing information
- Automation of manual steps

Day to Day Activities:
- Leverage the Devops Scoring Framework to improve DevOps and Product Maturity Index numbers for delivery teams.
- Build the agreed upon App that leverages EKS, Cloudnative concepts and implement in production.
- Retrospect on the current implementation and document for future use.
- AWS and EKS operations
- Cloud Native tools
- Administer AWS console where Cloudbees Agent exists on the EC2 instance.

This position is a contract to permanent opportunity with our client, offering career growth and stability. Although primarily remote, this position may require occasional onsite office visits in Reston VA. We are seeking candidates that reside in one of the following states: Wash DC, Maryland, Virginia or West Virginia.

Required Skills

- 10+ years of overall IT experience with a minimum of 6 years of DevOps/Kubernetes/Cloud experience. Must have very strong hands-on experience/knowledge of building pipelines
- Hands on with EKS and AWS
- Hands on with Python, Shell scripting
- Have hands on skills with Cloudbees, BitBucket, Sonar, Artifactory, CloudNative Practices.
- Must have hands on experience with ISTIO
- Wide breadth knowledge of development and testing best DevSecOps practices.
- Outstanding knowledge in Continuous Integration (CI), Testing (CT), Security and deployment (CD) concepts. Working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
- Apply engineering principles to improve resiliency, performance, efficiency and scalability of the DevSecOps eco system
- Find opportunities and build automation to reduce team-s interdependency
- Linux & Windows administration