DevOps Engineer

Description

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining the University of Maryland Libraries’ application deployment environments. The DevOps Engineer utilizes software development techniques to automate application deployments and to automate system monitoring and notifications. This work is performed in close collaboration with 2 other DevOps Engineers and 5 Software Developers, which leads to high availability and performance of applications as well as an agile deployment lifecycle. The incumbent maintains applications and systems through monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning resources such as cpu, memory, disk, and network, and will ensure systems are properly secure, redundant, backed up and prepared for disaster recovery.

The incumbent provides systems administration for RHEL Linux, Kubernetes, and Docker based virtual environments, using Ansible scripting and automation as one of their primary tools. The DevOps team is in the beginning phases of migrating our deployment environment from on-prem to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The incumbent will be responsible for migrating our existing applications and managing the cloud deployment environment.

The current deployment environment is a physical hardware infrastructure based on Dell/VMWare ESXi servers for vSphere management and VEEAM backups, DELL Compellent Storage, SAN fibre switches, and network switches. The DevOps team maintains this physical hardware infrastructure as well as the vSphere virtual environment which runs RHEL Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, and Windows based technologies. This on-prem environment is scheduled for decommissioning at the completion of the AWS migration project.