DevOps Engineer, Senior

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

19h•$130,000 - $196,000

About The Position

Freddie Mac's Capital Markets division is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage, operate, and extend its Agile (Nimble Development Methodology) based platform for software developments. This role is crucial for enabling Capital Markets to manage Freddie Mac’s retained portfolio, debt funding, liquidity management, interest-rate hedging, and securitization. The DevOps team provides a platform for over 300 software development professionals, ensuring consistency across environments and delivering automated tools and pipelines for continuous integration and development (CI/CD) to meet demanding business needs efficiently and in a controlled manner. The Senior DevOps Engineer will own the entire Nimble tool chain, supporting development teams to maximize Nimble’s value proposition. As a subject matter expert, you will provide a one-stop technical solution for delivering business-driven products in a timely, efficient, and agile manner. You will collaborate with the internal community, empowering them to meet business needs economically and effectively, providing consultancy throughout the entire lifecycle, especially in application architecture, software containerization (Docker), iterative and test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, and automated testing. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and extending Nimble's automation fabric and enhancing tools for project workflow, source code and artifact management, development workflow, continuous build and integration, test automation, and continuous delivery and deployments.

Requirements

5+ years of Unix Administration experience.
5+ years of experience engineering automated software delivery toolchains.
Clear understanding of security practices and identity management in SDLC tools.
5+ years of hands-on experience with Docker.
5+ years of experience developing solutions and managing environments that automate software deployment and configuration.
5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering for both non-production and production environments.
10+ years of relevant professional work experience.
Expert in Operating System Platform Configuration: Linux platforms (Red Hat).
Expert in Automated configuration management (Ansible is a must).
Expert in High Availability techniques: Failover techniques and load balancing (hot-cold implementation is a must).
Expert in Business continuity — wide area resiliency.
Expert in scripting languages: Bash (must have 10+ years of hands-on experience).
Knowledge of Application Software deployment and orchestration techniques (yum).
5+ years of Java application deployments and Java resource management.
Python.
Groovy.

Nice To Haves

Unix administrator with software developer’s acumen and drive to deliver automated solutions.
Intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility.
Facilitate complete solutions meeting software developer, infrastructure and DevOps teams’ needs.
Develop fully automatic and lights-out implementations.
Strong consultation and communications skills.
Curiosity to learn and instill new paradigms in others.

Responsibilities

Own the entire Nimble tool chain.
Support development teams to maximize Nimble’s value proposition.
Provide a one-stop technical solution for delivering business-driven products.
Collaborate with the internal community and empower them to meet business needs.
Provide consultancy throughout the entire lifecycle, especially in application architecture and software containerization (Docker).
Support iterative and test-driven development.
Support continuous integration and deployment.
Support automated testing.
Develop, maintain, and extend Nimble's automation fabric.
Enhance tools for Project workflow, source code and artifacts management, development workflow, continuous build and integration, test automation, and continuous delivery and deployments.