Applications Development Expert(DevOps)

Baltimore, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position: Applications Development Expert

Location: Baltimore MD (Hybrid)

Duration: Long-term Contract

Scope/Background: Client is an independent unit of state government that administer the states health insurance marketplace where residents can compare plans and determine eligibility for APTC/CSR and programs such as Medicaid. Client is seeking to deliver expert technical services for enterprise applications and custom integrated solutions including planning development continuous integration and continuous deployments for HBX solutions and related systems.

Note: The candidate must have the flexibility to work overtime as needed including weekends holidays and off-hours.

Project Overview:

Set up and maintain the Maryland Health Connection system/application and related components across cloud and traditional infrastructure.
Support application development teams in consuming cloud services and following CI/CD pipeline patterns and standards.
Collaborate with infrastructure and operations teams to automate end-to-end operations in AWS Cloud.
Design build maintain document and automate technical processes/operations using AWS cloud services; implement CI/CD tooling and automation (examples referenced include Ansible EC2 ELB Jenkins Git Docker S3).

Duties/Responsibilities:

Work with the development testing and operations teams and other DevOps engineers in setting up and maintaining the Maryland Health Connection system application and all related components in Cloud and traditional infrastructure.
Provide technical support to Application Development teams to aid the consumption of Cloud services and ensure adherence to CI/CD pipeline patterns and standards.
Collaborate and consult with infrastructure and system operations teams to help automate the end-to-end Operations of the applications and systems in AWS Cloud.
Design build maintain document and automate technical processes and operations using AWS cloud services.
Work with other DevOps team members to build tools and automation to configure/deploy/maintain our cloud technologies in AWS Cloud.
Work on several tools in implementing and deploying CI/CD solutions in AWS Cloud such as Ansible EC2 ELB Jenkins Git Docker S3 etc.
Participate in technical reviews during various stages of software and application development.
Adhere to all security change control and MHBE Project Management Office (PMO) policies processes and methodologies.

Minimum Qualifications:

A minimum of eight (8) years of experience designing developing maintaining or supporting enterprise information technology platforms applications or solutions.
A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience with DevOps processes in a cloud environment preferably with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
A minimum of five (5) years of experience in automated configuration and deployment using tools such as Ansible Chef Puppet Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IAC) frameworks.
A minimum of four (4) years of experience in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Automation and Orchestration.
A minimum of four (4) years of experience working with infrastructure design and deployment of applications in Amazon Cloud (AWS).
A minimum of two (2) years of experience with Ansible Jenkins Maven and Scripting.
Strong knowledge of the AWS cloud computing platform EC2 S3 (Object Storage) VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Lambda EBS (Block Storage under high I/O) ELB (Elastic Beanstalk - load-balancing and autoscaling) ECS EKS CloudFormation for AWS Orchestration CloudWatch and RedShift.
Experience with the app and web server configuration and maintenance (JBoss Apache Tomcat or similar).

Preferred Qualifications:

A minimum of five (5) years of design development implementation or maintenance experience with complex applications for health exchange systems eligibility systems or equivalent.
A minimum of three (3) years of software development experience with government Cloud deployments supporting high-volume high-quality consumer applications.
Experience with AWS services like CloudFormation IAM Policies EC2 Lambda S3 Glacier Multi-Region VPC Route53 Security Groups ALB/ELB/NLB API GW WAF Shield KMS CloudTrail Config CloudWatch Config Kinesis.
Hands-on experience with technologies like Docker Git NGINX. RDS Elastic Beanstalk VPC Kubernetes.
Experience working with PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases in cloud environments.
Experience with Identity Provider (IDP) and Identity Access Management (IAM) technologies and solutions.
Experience with scripting such as Ruby Python or Bash.
Strong knowledge of Microservice and SOA architectures.
Familiarity with various traditional and innovative project management approaches tools and phases of the project lifecycle.
Experience with Agile software development practices.
Experience working with the Project Management Office (PMO) processes policies and procedures.

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Position: Applications Development Expert Location: Baltimore MD (Hybrid) Duration: Long-term Contract Scope/Background: Client is an independent unit of state government that administer the states health insurance marketplace where residents can compare plans and determine eligibility for ...