Application Operations Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Application Operations Lead

Location: 100% Remote

Work Schedule: Normal business hours Monday-Friday 40 hours/week (not including mandatory unpaid meal break after 6 hours of work).

Labor Category: Specialist 3

Job Type : Contract

Duration: 12 Months

Rate: $90 t $100 per hour

Job Description/Justification:

The successful candidate will serve as the Application Operations Lead reporting to the OTI Application division. The Application Operations Lead will be responsible for overseeing a team that provides operational support of any application built and deployed to AWS as part of the Application Modernization initiative. This will include providing security patches and fixes for applications. The Application Operations Lead will also be responsible for working across teams to coordinate processes such as infrastructure build out and continuous integration using DevOps best practices. The position requires critical thinking and problem solving in concert with the utilization of industry standard best practices to ensure applications are performant and resilient.

SCOPE OF SERVICES

TASKS:

• Lead a team of operational engineers in modernization of Java applications including upgrade Java/libraries, containerization, and migration to AWS Fargate ECS.
• Modernize the application to industry best practice protocols, methodologies, and approaches.
• Lead and participate and in technical (configuration, code, etc.) reviews.
• Responsible for understanding and mitigation security vulnerabilities.
• Manage deployment of applications in production and non-production environments.
• Work on service tickets according to priority.
• Troubleshoot application issues.
• Work on making enhancements to improve the security of the applications, as needed
• Utilize triaging and observability tools provided by the cloud provider (AWS, Azure etc.).
• Work with CI/CD and project management tools like Azure DevOps.
• Responsible for analysis, problem definition, requirements, and solution development while creating defect fixes and enhancements.
• Work with source code quality and security tools for both static and dynamic analysis

• Create and maintain relevant project documentation

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered

• A minimum 12 years of hands-on experience supporting and developing Java applications.
• Experience managing DevOps engineering teams.
• Work with Java project build tools like Maven and Gradle.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate and JSP.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Database technologies: Oracle and/or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with the operations of AWS Services such as Fargate/ECS, Lambda, EC2, EFS, ELB, etc.
• Experience monitoring AWS services and custom applications using CloudWatch and similar tools.
• Expert knowledge of Azure DevOps: GIT, CI/CD build and release pipelines.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• Self-motivated, must be a proven team player.
• Keeps calm under pressure while triaging a production application fault, particularly in an outage scenario.

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, PowerShell, Bash (Linux) shell.
• Experience integrating with external SaaS systems.
• Containerization experience with Docker.

• Hands on experience with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.