Ruby on Rails developer

Company DescriptionWe 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 DescriptionRails process and deployment automationThis 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.QualificationsDesired Qualifications:Passion for quality, user experience, and cutting edge web technologiesStrong in Linux (CentOS) server managementStrong developer operations experienceAble to provide architectural direction and process improvements7+ years professional web development experience in related technologies3+ years Ruby on Rails experience2+ years professional JavaScript experienceExperience with Git/GithubStrong interpersonal and communication skillsStrong understanding of software security best practicesExperience building software using Agile concepts and processesAdditional Information• Good comm skills are a big priority• Duration: 6+ months• Candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.