DevOps/WiFi Solutions Engineeer

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Unison Systems, Inc, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today! Unison Systems is seeking a senior DevOps / WiFi Solutions Architect for a high profile, very technical team in a contract role. Job Summary As one of the country’s leading connectivity providers and largest ISPs, our client appreciates the tremendous value WIFI provides our customers today and how it will power the technological innovations of the future. Today, Client’s WIFI network serves more than 300 million wireless devices, many of which are smart phones provided by cellular companies, and carries 80 percent of the data consumed on those devices in our customers’ homes and offices. The wireless device engineering team is seeking a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to work on mission-critical projects contributing to Client’s commitment of building and expanding intelligent WIFI and Cellular capabilities. As a member of the wireless engineering organization, you’ll be required to work in an agile team environment where professional respect and communication is key. Because we work on the cutting edge of a lot of technologies, we need someone who is a creative problem solver, resourceful in getting things done, and productive working independently or collaboratively. Major Duties And Responsibilities The Architect role will own the ideation, design, development, enhancement and continuous improvement of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment CI/CD Pipelines. Ideation and design – 50% of time • Evaluate our current CI Pipelines • Design new solutions, leveraging and implementing AWS functions • Design, develop and constantly improve existing AWS Environments by enhancing our CloudFormation and Terraform scripts. • Partner with development team to improve development efficiencies • Work with architecture team to ideate and design infrastructure, environment, and CI/CD improvements • Gather technical requirement to document Features/Stories/HLD Development Work – 50% of time • Enhance existing Entitlements Server Pipelines to integrate automated end to end testing improving our confidence in every deployment • Develop end to end design leveraging AWS resources • Develop micro services in python/java on AWS • Partner with our automation framework team to create CI solutions that improve automated testing • Ideate, design and implement enhanced production monitoring across all of our products • Create new CI/CD Pipelines for new projects • Build system monitoring Dashboards and KPIs • Implement industry and AWS best practices for deployment, monitoring and alerting Required Qualifications • Independent self-starting problem solver with a creative passion to develop DevOps solutions with a variety of tools, strategies and techniques • Design documentation skills. • Comfortable writing and prioritizing Agile Epics, Features and Stories • Leads Feature grooming sessions with leadership and other teams. • A DevOps thought leader that can contribute to the constant improvement of our processes • Experience designing and deploying AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation • Working knowledge of branching and merging code in GitLab • Strong working knowledge of developing CI/CD Pipelines. We use GitLab Runner Pipelines, and strong working knowledge with Jenkins is very transferable • Working understanding of AWS Virtual Private Clouds and AWS Networking. • Strong documentation design and communication skills • A desire to “code” automated Pipeline and AWS solutions vs. building them one off • Strong working experience of integrating automated end to end testing into CI/CD Pipelines • Knowledge of industry best practices for Dev Ops in a Cloud Environment • Experience working in an Agile environment • Willingness to mentor and advise other engineering team members • A solid understanding and passion for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Related Work Experience • 3 to 7 years of experience in Dev Ops • Proficient with Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environment delivery for releases and managed the docker container in Kubernetes clustering. • Proficient in AWS Cloud Resources, micro services architecture • Experience writing code in python/java, RDB and/or Mongo DB • Experience integrating various tools such as Gitlab, JIRA, Confluence, Webex Teams and/or Slack to create seamless automated information sharing. • Experience managing and deploying Server releases to Production. • Experience supporting and monitoring and developing alerts for Production environments. EDUCATION Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.