University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: DevOps Engineer

DevOps Developer is needed in Chapel Hill, United States.

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Client: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Location: Chapel Hill, NC

Contract: Temporary, Full-time

Hiring Range

$55.00 - $68.00 per hour

Position Summary

The DevOps Engineer provides research software development support for RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) projects which involve local and distributed collaborations with academic researchers, state and federal agency subject matter experts, and computer and computational scientists.

DevOps: Design and implement continuous integration/deployment pipelines with repeatable provisioning and configuration as code. Containerization: Configure and orchestrate application containers. Scale applications through on-demand virtualization. Optimize systems of applications for cloud deployments. Monitor systems and applications for reliability and performance. Automate incident response to system and application problems. Work with RENCI management and staff on project requirements. Solicit feedback on improvements and implementations. Work with researchers and users of software to explain functionality.

Software Development: Develop data structures and algorithms to support RENCI’s national collaborations and state sponsored research.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or closely related degree from an appropriately accredited institution and three years of experience in operations analysis and design, systems programming, or closely related area; or a

• Bachelor’s degree from an appropriately accredited institution and four years of experience in operations analysis and design, systems programming or closely related area; or an Associate’s degree in Computer Information Technology, Computer Engineering Technology, or Networking Technology from an appropriately accredited institution and five years of experience in operations analysis and design, systems programming, or closely related area; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Journey level requires an additional one year of education or experience.
• Advanced level requires an additional two years of education or experience.

Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

• Awareness of computer science and DevOps concepts including.
• Familiarity with devops concepts, skill with Jenkins, Docker and/or Singularity, Linux administration and bash and/or Python scripting, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Openstack/Openshift) preferred.
• Ability to perform continuous integration across multiple contributing teams and support group efforts to test, package, and deploy software.
• Ability to build collaborative efforts with other departments and institutions.
• Capacity for self-education, interdisciplinary study and inquiry.
• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal communication, human relations, and team-building skills.
• Ability to foster and maintain collaborations with local and distributed researchers and subject matter experts.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

Five or more years of relevant experience is preferred.