Position Title: IT Configuration Management Specialist

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting IT Configuration Management Specialist contract opportunity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the DevOps team by managing enterprise applications such as GitHub Enterprise and Jenkins, ensuring these tools support a highly efficient and collaborative environment for software development and operations.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for the design, deployment, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise applications critical to the DevOps team operations.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor for the DevOps team, ensuring adherence to modern DevOps methodologies, promoting skills development, and fostering continuous improvement.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins to automate build, test, and deployment processes
• Follow internal best practices for approval of application access and changes
• Contribute to DevOps application support as a tier 3 escalation resource
• Demonstrate end-to-end expertise and technical ownership in several of the following areas:
• Cloud technologies - Azure PaaS
• Data center technologies – Windows Server, VMware
• Infrastructure Automation for Windows Server/Linux
• Virtualization
• Storage
• Networking
• Disaster Recovery
• Containers
• Perform regular maintenance tasks including application patching, app/plugin updates, and configuration changes Develop scalable automation frameworks to streamline DevOps team operations and ensure consistent infrastructure as code practices to improve service health, manageability, reliability, and monitoring

Job Qualification:

• Three (3) years of experience with DevOps enterprise technologies, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing or leading a DevOps team, with a track record of successful project delivery and team growth.
• Ability to set strategic DevOps objectives and execute actionable plans to achieve them.
• Deep understanding of core DevOps practices
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to build productive working relationships with others
• Experience with these technologies:
• Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Git
• Jenkins
• Linux RHEL 8-9.x
• PowerShell
• Python
• Windows 2019-2025

Ideal Qualification:

• College Degree
• Experience with infrastructure software, including Docker
• Experience with applications running in a primarily Windows Server environment
• Experience with SQL technologies and backend application databases
• Experience in configuration management technologies such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with AWS or another cloud PaaS provider.
• Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management, and maintenance of cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines.
• Experience with these technologies:
• Ansible
• Azure
• Docker
• GitHub Enterprise
• Linux RHEL 8-9
• SQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Location: 100% Remote Acceptable
• Pay Rate Range: $60-$75/hr (Pay rates are approved based on candidate location, education, and experience.)
• Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
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About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.