Build Engineer / DevOps (Microsoft) - Contract to hire

Job Title: Build Engineer / DevOps (Microsoft)

Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL

Duration: 6+ month (might need to roll perm, not sure, prefer EAD/GC)

Interview Process: Phone then F2F

Rate: $55-60/hr on C2C

This is from the manager:

As a suggestion – please do not focus on the tooling. Development experience (preferably .Net) is a must. Not interested in IT professionals who manage TFS as part of their workload. This role requires a developer willing to shift right (from Dev to CI).

Again, I am not going to mention tooling because it throws people off but this is what an ideal candidate will look like.

• Development experience

• Unit testing experience

• Code quality experience

• Package management experience

• Test automation experience

• Release management experience

Requirements:

• Must have a minimum of 5 years development experience in a .NET / Microsoft environment

• Must have development and coding experience with:

• C#, JavaScript, PowerShell and/or Python

• Must have experience with ALM using Agile practices

• Experience with infrastructure automation tolls, preferably Chef and Octopus

• Experience with CICD tools such as Bamboo or Jenkins or VSTS Build

• Experience working with Cloud solutions, preferably Azure

• Experience with testing frameworks such as:

• Jasmin, Karma, Selenium, Mocha, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Role requires working with various cross-functional engineering specialists, project managers and application development teams to define and implement upcoming release requirements

• Facilitate communication between various teams & steak holders in-order to increase development velocity and improve efficiency

• Serves as the technology expert on building technical requirements

• Work with Automation testing teams to improve UI and Performance

• Responsible for helping to define the design, implementation and support of infrastructure and operational components. Will create and build using Jenkins and VSTS.

OVERVIEW:

The DevOps Build Master is key member of an agile development team. The qualified applicant is responsible for the implementation of an application’s delivery pipeline - from version control, build, and release.

Applicant must be adept to working in a highly fluid environment which includes: frequent changes to requirements, tactics, strategies and timelines. Candidate must also be a self-learner with abilities to quickly absorb new and emerging technologies. Effective communication skills are a must as this role requires frequent interactions with other departments i.e., Application Development, QA, PMO, Operations, offshore Dev/QA teams, vendors, and the business. Experience with cloud programming models such as Reliable Actors and Reliable Services are a plus.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with scrum masters to understand upcoming release requirements
• Manage and resolve forward/reverse integration issues with limited help (merge issues)
• Support multiple development teams working on a single development branch
• Create and maintain build definitions in VSTS Build and Jenkins
• Troubleshoot/resolve build and package issues
• Monitor/enforce code quality and test coverage standards
• Work with QA automation teams to orchestrate automated testing (UI and Performance)
• Administer VSTS version control system using Git and TFVC repositories
• Attend daily SCRUM standup meetings with development teams
• Design and develop new methods to improve AutoNation’s development environment

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5-7 years of .NET development experience at the enterprise level using Agile best practices
• Bachelor’s degree in technology or equivalent job experience
• Strong understanding of ALM and release management processes
• Software version control systems in centralized and distributed designs
• Continuous integration systems that test and package deployable code
• Continuous deployment systems that deploy/promote code to different environments on demand
• Configuration management that automatically set environments to desired state
• Software and system monitoring/alerting that provide fast feedback loops
• Ability to design and implement process automation using scripting tools and languages such as C#, PowerShell, Javascript/node.js, Python, Ruby
• Strong understanding of coding standards such as MVC, client-side frameworks (Angular JS/React, jQuery), asynchronous programming, web sockets (SignalR), web APIs, SOA, Reliable Actors, Reliable Services, SQL, SSDT and mobile clients using Xamarin
• Strong understanding of test frameworks and tools such as: Jasmine, AVA, Mocha, JSlint, Karma, Grunt, Gulp, nUnit, xUnit, MSTest, Selenium
• Solid understanding of zero-downtime deployments and fast rollback strategies

ENVIRONMENTS and TOOLING:

• Server 2012 R2, Server 2016, RHEL
• IIS Web Server
• MS SQL Server 2014, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS
• VSTS, MS Visual Studio, MTM, Jira
• Sitecore, Sharepoint
• Jenkins CI, VSTS Build
• Octopus Deploy, VSTS Release, Chef
• SonarQube, Cobertura
• Windows Azure, AzureRM, Microservices
• Office 365

If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to gmahesh(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-880-4184.