Ruby on Rails developer

Company Description

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Job Description

Rails process and deployment automation

This resource will work closely with our internal engineers to refine our development process and build automation that will allow us to meet the following goals.

• Support arbitrary deployment of individual features. Every git branch should be deployable to production, merged to Master after successful deployment, and the Master branch should always be a clean representation of what is running in production. The merge of a feature branch to Master, upon successful deployment, should be automated as well.
• Every Pull Request submitted should be automatically deployed to a Test environment, where it can be validated autonomously from any other feature branches.
• Deployment of a feature branch to a Staging environment should be triggered by a command mechanism, such as a messenger bot (hubot, slackbot, etc). Deployment should include a command driven rollback option, in the event a deployment introduces issues.
  
• Deployment of current staging application version to the Production environment should be triggered by a command mechanism, such as a messenger bot (hubot, slackbot, etc). Deployment should include a command driven rollback option, in the event a deployment introduces issues.
  

Upon completion of automation work, this resource will switch over to doing feature work with the Online Store development team for the duration of the contract.

Qualifications

Desired Qualifications:

Passion for quality, user experience, and cutting edge web technologies

Strong in Linux (CentOS) server management

Strong developer operations experience

Able to provide architectural direction and process improvements

7+ years professional web development experience in related technologies

3+ years Ruby on Rails experience

2+ years professional JavaScript experience

Experience with Git/Github

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Strong understanding of software security best practices

Experience building software using Agile concepts and processes

Additional Information

1. Good comm skills are a big priority
2. Duration: 6+ months

3. Candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.