DevOps Engineer

Company: Global Knowledge Training LLC
Location: Cary
Posted on: May 5, 2020

Job Description:

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DEVOPS ENGINEER

Location: CARY, NC

Employment Duration: FULL TIME

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DESCRIPTION

Global Knowledge is the world s leading IT and business skills training provider. Offering the most relevant and timely content delivered by the best instructors, we provide customers around the world with their choice of convenient class times, delivery methods and formats to accelerate their success. Our business skills solutions teach essential communications skills, business analysis, project management, ITIL service management, process improvement and leadership development. With thousands of courses spanning from foundational training to specialized certifications, our core IT training is focused on technology partners such as Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, Juniper, Microsoft, Red Hat and VMware. We offer comprehensive professional development for technologies like big data, cloud, cybersecurity and networking.

The DevOps Engineer will be joining the Software Engineering team that develops learning solutions that bring together instructor led training, virtual classrooms, and digital online learning in a singular user experience. The team designs, develops, tests, deploys, and manages theses learning solutions both on-premise and in the cloud following Agile Scrum best practices. This position requires good communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Global Knowledge is looking for a DevOps Engineer who is passionate about automating development and production environments and loves the challenge of working in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment. In this role, you will be center to helping design, operate, abnd enhance environments that enable rapid development and deployments while achieving high availability. Along with a systemic discipline, we are also looking for candidates who can successfully work within the existing environment, and who are open and passionate about exploring new technologies and processes to improve our overall environment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

* You are responsible for enhancing devops practices inside of Global Knowledge s Software Engineering team.

* You are center to help design and operate highly available software in large distributed and virtual environments.

* Metric driven and focused on continuous improvement.

* Strong expertise in leveraging a wide variety of open source technologies.

* Automation of build environments and IT operations is in your DNA.

* Setup, monitor, and manage continuous integration and continuous deployment environment.

* Setup, monitor, and manage development, test, staging, and production environments on-premise and in the cloud.

* Troubleshoot, diagnose and identify failing systems through the use of instrumentation and software.

* Ensure compliance to corporate IT policies and procedures.

* Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This role has no direct reports.

QUALIFICATIONS

* Proficiency of Linux at a systems administration level.

* Experience working within highly available and secure systems and network topologies.

* Experience working with Python/Django, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ.

* Experience working in an Azure cloud environment.

* Experience working with GitHub and Jenkins.

* Experience with .Net Framework, NetDynamics, and Windows at the sysadmin level is a plus.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems (or equivalent) and 4 years of related experience to include administration, security, network design and management, programming, and troubleshooting.

COMPENTENCIES

* Drive customer focus personally and through teams (Customer Focus)

* Excellent written and oral communication skills to include report writing (Communication)

* Excellent troubleshooting skills (Technical / Professional Knowledge)

* Work successfully in a fast-paced changing environment (Stress Management)

* Work successfully in a team oriented environment (Contributing to Team Success)

* Work unsupervised to complete daily tasks and long-term goals (Managing Work)

* Ability to set own priorities and adjust as needed (Initiative)

* Ensures all GK standards have been met and asks users if satisfied (Follow Up)

* Reacts positively to change and modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes (Adaptability)

* Takes advantage of learning opportunities and anticipates future skill needs (Continuous Learning)

OTHER REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

You may be required to work extended hours on short notice due to production issues when other Global Knowledge employees are not required to work.

Global Knowledge is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status.

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