Technical Lead

Job Title: Platform Technical Lead

Location: McLean, VA 22102 (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 months CTH

Contract Type: W2 only

Pay Rate Range: $80-$88.60/Hour

Project Description:

• Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production.
• Work closely with Architecture, Stakeholders, Operations Partners, and Business Product teams to specify and refine solutions and practices.
• Evolve a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives.
• Driver for modernization of client’s 5000+ customers to release small incremental changes to production at 5x pace.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build to sustainability/DevOps engineering functions that is responsible for platform availability, scale, and performance.
• Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement.
• Build to improve the systems health such as self healing, resiliency, continuous feedback.
• Lead to instrument APM in prod and non-prod with dashboards including but not limited to key performance indicators, alters with thresholds and tolerances, user patterns & usages etc.
• Implement comprehensive service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including but not limited to synthetic transactions, real users, system, application performance, dashboards etc.
• Define, measure, and meet key service level objectives including availability, performance, incidents, and chronic problems.
• Ensure robust capacity planning models are defined for key platforms and regularly measure customer site performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity.
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical platform services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
• Experienced in coding, scripting, and automating with languages including Groovy, Ansible, Selenium, Vgen and shell scripting experience, for automation of routine operations and tasks within the enterprise environment.
• Proficient in CI/CD pipeline development with use of Jenkins and Spinnaker tools; to support microservice deployments into Amazon EKS and/or OpenShift Console environments.
• Experienced with code quality, code coverage, security scan (SAST/DAST) scanning tools such as; Fortify, Checkmarx, SonarQube.
• Experience with code and release management tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD, Helm, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Jira)
• Lead technical teams with a focus on productivity, cost optimization on infrastructure and efficiency.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or advanced degree or directly relevant professional experience
• 10+ years of experience in delivering solutions using Software Development Life Cycle
• 5+ years’ experience working with complex SQL queries, AWS and Unix environments.
• Proven experience with operational and organizational management, team leadership, and enterprise-wide technology strategy
• Possess good interpersonal and collaboration skills with strong communication skills at levels ranging from senior leadership to product team members.
• Knowledge and experience working with AWS, Python and Java
• Strong writing skills. Detail driven with respect to documentation.
• Desire to expand knowledge & skillset in cloud-based technologies & patterns