DevOps Engineer

Client Name: City of New York

Contract Length (in weeks): 52 Weeks

To provide support for the migration of Cybershift from its current cloud implementation to in-house, on-premise Clients servers. The Dev Ops Engineer will be responsible for:

• Management of the implementation and configuration of hardware and software packages utilized to deploy components required by the SESIS project including (but not limited to) SQL Server, LaserFiche, AccuRoute, TIENET, Dynatrace, and .NET web servers and applications.
  
• Gathering and analyzing requirements, designing and deploying the required components, and troubleshooting and optimizing configuration to maximize the performance and throughput of Client-hosted components.
  

OUTLINE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Investigates application problems and issues, performs root cause analysis, develops action plans for resolution, resolves problems and issues, documents resolutions, and disseminates conclusions.
  
• Develops and updates system administration procedures and works closely with other IT resources, including business analysts, project analysts and server operations.
  
• Assists in the analysis of business requirements and identifies appropriate technologies to implement effective solutions and optimize productivity.
  
• Works with business partners to understand requirements and translate them into system specifications.
  
• Research emerging technologies in the Internet hardware and software arenas, implements proof-of-concept deployments and makes recommendations for adoption of new technologies and tools.
  
• Installs and configures server software, including but not limited to Microsoft IIS, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server and SSRS, Cognos BI, TIENET, Laserfiche, Accu-Route, Dynatrace AppMon
  
• Manages SSL certificate lifecycle and deployments to all web farms
  

Requirements

MANDATORY MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate must have minimally achieved the following level of experience:

• 8+ years’ experience of Install, configure and support Microsoft IIS 6.0, 7.0, 7.5 , 8.0, 8.5, 10 servers
  
• 6 years’ experience of deep understanding implementation expertise of PKI infrastructure
  
• 8 years’ experience and knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2014 and SQL 2016
  
• 8 years’ experience in design and implementation of MS SQL high availability clustering solutions.
  
• 6 years’ experience in implementation and troubleshooting of Microsoft Cloud offerings related to PaaS WebApps, PaaS DBs, IaaS and networking components like vNets, NSGs, Application Gateways, VPN gateways, Application Insight and Desired State
  
• 6 years’ administration and maintenance experience in document management systems like LaserFiche including Quickfields, Workflow and other application integration components.
  
• 8 years’ experience in troubleshooting Windows Active Directory
  
• 6 years’ expertise in troubleshooting distributed internal and public facing Web Applications / Web services with Oracle, IBM DB2 and MS SQL backend DBs.
  
• 6 years’ experience Implementing various authentication mechanisms for applications using different authentication options available for web based applications.
  
• 8 years’ experience in designing and implementation of web servers.
  
• 8 years’ experience F5 load balancing/reverse Proxy configuration.
  
• 8 years’ experience in overall application design and integration.
  
• 8 years’ experience Windows/SQL clustering.
  PREFERABLE QUALIFICATIONS
  
  
• Good working knowledge of load balancing technologies.
  
• Understanding of authentication/authorization mechanisms like OAuth2, OpenID and SAML.
  
• Deep understanding of virtualization technologies, storage and networking backend infrastructure.
  
• Expertise in creating and troubleshooting PowerShell scripts.
  
• Experience in automation of day-to-day tasks using PowerShell.
  
• Knowledge of managing and integrating on prem TFS and cloud bases VSTS with Azure Web Apps.