DevOps Engineer, Senior (Linux)

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

3d•$130,000 - $196,000

About The Position

Freddie Mac's Capital Markets division is seeking a Platform Engineer with extensive Unix Administration acumen to join its well-established DevOps team. This team manages, operates, and extends its Agile (Nimble Development Methodology) based platform for software developments. The Nimble DevOps team owns releases and production integrity, enabling Capital Markets to manage Freddie Mac’s retained portfolio, debt funding, liquidity management, interest-rate hedging, and securitization. They provide a platform for the division’s software development community (300+ professionals), ensuring consistency across environments and delivering automated tools and pipelines for continuous integration and development (CI/CD) to meet business needs efficiently and in a controlled manner. As a DevOps Engineer, you will own the entire Nimble tool chain, supporting development teams to maximize Nimble’s value. You will act as a subject matter expert, providing a one-stop technical solution for product delivery in a timely, efficient, and agile manner. Collaboration with the internal community to meet business needs economically and effectively, including consultancy on application architecture, software containerization (Docker), iterative and test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, and automated testing, is key. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and extending Nimble's automation fabric and enhancing tools for project workflow, source code and artifacts management, development workflow, continuous build and integration, test automation, and continuous delivery and deployments.

Requirements

5yrs+ experience of Unix Administration
5yrs experience of engineering automated software delivery toolchains
Clear understanding of security practices and identity management in SDLC tools
5yrs+ experience of hands-on experience with Docker
5yrs+ experience developing solutions and managing environments that automate software deployment and configuration
5yrs+ 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)
Automated configuration management (Ansible is a must)
Expert in High Availability techniques: Failover techniques and load balancing (hot-cold implementation is a must)
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)
5yrs+ 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.
Act as a subject matter expert to the development community.
Provide a one-stop technical solution for product delivery in a timely, efficient, and agile manner.
Collaborate with the internal community to meet business needs economically and effectively.
Provide consultancy throughout the entire lifecycle, especially in application architecture and software containerization (Docker), iterative and test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, and 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.