R&D Engineer

Job Title: R&D Engineer

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Location: Reston ,VA

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Contract Term: 12+ Months

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Weekly 40.00 Hours (Mon - Fri)

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nDescription:
Responsibilities:

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-          Support for administration, troubleshooting, configuration, installation, deployment, maintenance, upgrades on On-premises and Cloud Infrastructure.

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-          Work with the architects, tech leads and infrastructure teams to prepare necessary DevOps processes, plan, implement and maintain the same

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-          Interact with development teams to ensure runbook documentation, smoke test documentation, deployment plan is up to date

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-          Support deployments, rollbacks, application verification, Smoke Tests, and production tasks

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-          Coordinate with a different team and support groups to resolve issues with the Software, applications, Operating System (Linux/Windows) and Cloud Services.

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-          Review artifacts for related projects within CI/CM Application repository.

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-          Support testing, evaluation, installation and configuration of new application releases and will use Operational Support Plans, Secure Configuration documents, Best Practice white papers and other tools to determine if there are potential issues before deployments (DevOps Support)

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-          Support production maintenance activities that include the development of automated scripts and scheduled tasks, Server maintenance, application/system monitoring, software/security updates and patching, archiving/disposition of system logs and/or data records.

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-          Maintain various DevOps related tools and scripts on various environments (dev, test, pre-prod, prod) on on-premises & cloud infrastructure (Azure).

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Qualifications:

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-          Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or a related engineering discipline

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-          Experience with Enterprise Cloud (Azure/AWS), Python, Azure PowerShell scripting

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-          Strong background in Azure monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics tools.

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-          Strong knowledge in Visual Studio Team Services and TFS

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-          Experience with containerization tools including Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift

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-          Experience with systems and network performance tuning, capacity planning, backup and recovery, system architecture and designs as well as high availability concepts

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-          Experience working with development teams to develop and maintain configuration baselines supporting complex systems

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-          Experience with NoSQL databases.

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-          5 years and more of DevOps/Configuration Management experience

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-          Preferred Qualification

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-          Certification in cloud technologies (Azure/AWS) a plus

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- HIPAA, SOX, ISO and PCI compliance standards