Sr. Tech Ops Engineer

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

DIRECT CLIENT REQUIREMENT

This team is looking for an innovative and collaborative Sr. Technology Operations Engineer who has experience in both Tech Operations and Software Engineering. 

The Senior Tech Operations Engineer will be contributing day one with software installation, configuration and deployment activities in a 24/7 continuous integration environment. 

What the resource will be doing:

• Administering and maintaining our build and deploy technologies and playing an active role in our DevOps culture.  
• Find and implement innovative technical products for improved performance and process 
• Setting up environments, capacity planning and installing software
• Handling Global initiatives such as Centrify, Self-Service patching, Disaster Recovery, Data Center moves, Security Scans and Risk Assessments 
• Maintaining the efficiencies amongst the product such as rolling up and archiving logs, creating consistencies amongst environments and setting up high availability
• Serving as the liaison between other business units
• Responsible for Server/Infrastructure support and Maintenance, Application / Database monitoring and support, troubleshoot/diagnose hardware and software issues

Education & Experience Required: 

• WebSphere, Java, JBoss, MicroStrategy
• Linux, AIX, Windows
• DB2, MySQL
• Unix Shell Scripting, Perl, Jython
• Code Deployments and maintenance of application Servers
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery concepts and tools
• 5 years of Systems Administration or DevOps / Tech Operations Experience required; 7 preferred
• A Bachelor's degree (BS, BA) required
• Behavior Characteristics:
  

• Self-starter, requires little to no oversight, knows how to find, diagnose and find resolution to any issues affecting environment/applications.
  

Required:

• 5 years of Systems Administration or DevOps / Tech Operations Experience required; 7 preferred
• A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) required. Area of study in Computer Science or related discipline.
  

Additional Information

GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS

DURATION:6m contract to hire

INTERVIEW: PHONE & SKYPE

GC or USC only. No H1Bs