DevOps Engineer - Technology Specialist I - DTP MSSM - Icahn School of Medicine - Remote

DevOps Engineer - Technology Specialist I - Digital and Technology Partners - Remote - Req#3014936

The DevOps Engineer will work primarily on a large enterprise application as well as vendor provided tools and open source software used to support the system. The enterprise system is a web based, custom developed application that is the front end to a number of backend ERP type applications. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the installation and configuration of the application and tools across multiple environments, including Production, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Development, and Test. The infrastructure is comprised of Application server (JVM), Web (NGINX), and Database (Oracle) servers which can be physical or virtual. The DevOps Engineer will also contribute to the development of the application, and is required to have complex web application development experience. The candidate should be able to quickly understand and modify existing software and develop new functionality. 

• Responsibility for developing and maintaining strategies and tools for infrastructure automation (building code releases, testing, deployments, configuration management, monitoring, routine maintenance, disaster recovery, etc.)
• Responsibility for planning, coordinating, testing and deploying infrastructure changes (deploying security patches, software upgrades, hardware upgrades, system changes, etc.)
• Design Infrastructure for exceptional reliability, security, performance, and cost effectiveness on every level (hardware, networking, storage, and software stacks, etc.), with ability to evaluate and communicate requirements, risks, costs vs benefits, identify gaps, etc.
• Enable segregation of duties, minimize any overlap between business software development and production system support responsibilities within the team
• Troubleshoot and address production infrastructure issues
• Proficiency with Linux system administration, networking, security, good understanding of hardware
• Proficiency with scripting languages including shell scripting and python
• Proficiency with source control systems, build tools, container management tools, configuration management tools, etc.
• Good communication skills, good writing skills, good time management skills, etc.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Masters degree preferred.
• Eight years of diverse work experience in IT with a minimum of six years experience in systems analysis and application program development, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 5 years real world DevOps and Programming experience building and maintaining complex systems, and automating, installing and configuration of software, e.g. Linux, NGINX, Oracle DB 19c, Jira, Drupal
• Excellent hands-on knowledge of programming languages and technologies, e.g. JavaScript, Java, Java Applets, PL/SQL, XML/XSLT, HTML/DHTML, Web Services, Linux, CSS, …