Our client in the Washington DC area is looking for a DevOps Engineer professional with 5+ years of experience in the field. This role is not open to C2C - must be eligible to work on client's W2 Top Technical Skills:LinuxAWS/GCP Top Technical Skills: Highly collaborative, solutions oriented The Senior DevOps Engineer works across the Product Engineering Team to foster and build a DevOps culture of cross-collaboration by working with each team to design and implement secure automated solutions for development, testing, and production environments. The primary focus of this position is on automation of:Infrastructure provisioning (Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through Ansible, Go and Terraform),Code and test developmentSoftware package deploymentsOperational processesThe right candidate thinks about the big picture and is ready to influence, partner and guide teams through a modernization journey, embracing cloud platform technologies, containerization, and CI/CD, as well as assisting in enhancing and strengthening processes and procedures as part of the continuous growth journey. The candidate should also have experience working within an environment that has evolved from start-up into a more mature organization with the right governance in place.Primary Job Duties:Mentor, and/or train other DevOps and software engineers, onshore and offshore, including empowering others to learn and implement DevOps best practices.CI/CD:Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environmentsDevelop capabilities that move the team towards continuous integration and zero downtime deploysEstablish telemetry on integration and deployment pipelines to enable a continuous feedback loop mechanism.Security:Maintain a secure development infrastructure, collaborate with enterprise shared services and information security to maintain a secure environmentWork with other security resources (internal or external) to mitigate security risks and maintain a relatively small risk profileEnforce all HIPAA rules and regulations in accordance with security policies and in partnership with the Chief Information Security Officer; support enterprise security policies and procedures, and work collaboratively with the Enterprise Shared Services team.Infrastructure:Responsible for maintaining the development infrastructure including: Linux/Windows servers, SQL Server/mySQL, public and private cloud environments.Develop, document, and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoringOperations:Operate and administer tools leveraged in our Agile environmentEngineer solutions for scalability, reliability, and uptime, including ability to identify and troubleshoot performance issues like memory leaks, processing bottlenecks, database load etc.Participate in development operations projects including migrating tools and products to forward compatible technologies including BigQuery, Kubernetes and JenkinsBuild and manage monitoring for production services and processes including flashboards and real time monitoring with SMS notificationsQualificationsMinimum Qualifications:Strong background in modernization leveraging cloud-native technologies hosted on a cloud platform (GCP preferably but will consider AWS and Azure), microservice event-driven architecture and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes/GKE)5+ years of experience of DevOps culture on a distributed Agile environment and implementation of a CI/CD pipeline to deploy web-based and mobile applications5+ years of solid experience with Ansible and Terraform and fluency in at least one scripting language Go and/or PythonExperience working and/or administering DevOps Tools/Frameworks including:Repositories: GitHub, BitBucket, GitLabTest frameworks: unittest, rspec, serverspec, chefspec, kitchen-ci, puppet-rspec, beakerDeployment on Public/Private Clouds: Jenkins, UrbanCode, HarnessContainer Orchestration/Management: Docker, Mesos, OpenShiftContainer Security: Twistlock, Cloud InsightsStatic Code Analysis: SonarQube, DeepSourceSecOps: Blackduck, CheckMarxTelemetry: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK StackStrong Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows operations skills including administering and securing operating system, tools and applications such as Apache, SQL Server, mySQL and Ruby on Rails from internal and external threatMust be willing and able to communicate with the team via webcam, webconf, and phone.Must have access to private, quiet work space with high-speed internet to effectively work remotelyMust be able to travel for team-offsites twice per year and to attend vendor meetings directly related to the position in person.