DevOps Engineer

Overview:

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client Limited is an oilfield services company and has more than 140 nationalities working in more than 120 countries. This Client has four principal executive offices located in Paris, Houston, London, and The Hague. This Client is the world's largest offshore drilling company.

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Work Location: Houston TX 77077

Job Type: Contract

Duration:12 months

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

• The position reports to the software project manager.

Responsibilities

• Development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side applications

• Collaborate with the front-end developers, customers, users, and product managers to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.

• Builds prototypes, products and systems that meets the project quality standards and requirements.

• Provides technical leadership and documentation to developers and stakeholders

• Contributes to and supports re-use through common components that are well documented and tested.

• Provide timely corrective actions on all assigned defects and issues.

• Contributes to development plan by providing task estimates.

Background:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related with minimum 5 years working experience

Skills and knowledge:

Mandatory

• At least 3 years experience with DevOps and CI/CD

• In-depth expertise with Azure Cloud Platform (minimum 2 years experience)

• Extensive experience with infrastructure implementation and management

• Excellent understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery technologies such as Azure DevOps (especially), Jenkins, etc.

• Experience with design, deployment and maintenance of YAML pipelines

• Experience with multiple scripting languages python, PowerShell, bash, etc.

• Extensive knowledge of containers & container orchestration technologies Docker, Kubernetes etc. and their deployment, management and security best practices

• Knowledge of application networking and troubleshooting

• Experienced in application profiling, bottleneck analysis and performance tuning

• Knowledge and experience with version control tools (Git preferred but not mandatory)

• Understand continuous integration and continuous delivery technologies such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps

• Experience with test driven software development, ability to implement and maintain Unit tests, etc.

• Familiar with code quality tools and best practices

• Experience with working in agile environment

• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices

Nice to have

• Experience with Terraform and similar

• Experience on other cloud platforms - AWS, GCP, OpenShift, etc.

• Understanding of micro services architecture with experience in designing and implementing RESTful services

• Experience with one or more backend programming languages. C#, Java, Python, etc. Experience working with typical industry standard libraries for C#/Java.

• Python knowledge

• Knowledge of security principles (Oauth2, JWT, Open API)

• Software reliability experience

• Oil and gas industry experience.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.