DevOps Engineer

Position Overview:

The Engineer II, DevOps (EII) contributes to establishing a DevOps practice. They are comfortable working with software development methodologies. They work closely with application and operations teams to identify and establish DevOps practices within the group. They establish configuration management, automate infrastructure provisioning, implement continuous integration, and contribute to training the team in DevOps best practices to achieve a continuously deployable system. They are detail-oriented and comfortable working in an Agile Scrum environment. As part of the operations team, they are also comfortable performing system administration tasks in either Linux or Windows Server operating systems, and are comfortable learning and supporting datacenter operations.

Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Provide DevOps engineering support for the different flavors of Kubernetes's platform that includes Opensource kubernetes, MicroK8s, AKS and EKS.

Physical Design/Requirements

Collaborates with Engineering and Operations teams to improve automation of workflows, infrastructure, code testing and deployment

Creates work plan timelines and manages workflow to meet project deadlines

Develop, Test and Implement

Defines, builds and executes infrastructure as code

Defines, builds and executes configuration management

Defines, builds and executes server, network, storage and application status monitoring

Measures and monitors system performance

Creates, maintains and iterates on Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) processes for new and existing services

Automates repetitive tasks (via scripting, etc.)

Ability to build docker images and deploy services in kubernetes platform using automated solutions.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

Ability to evaluate effectiveness and scalability; develops/enhances systems to improve production and/or workflow as required

Configure and deploy servers and packages using automation and configuration management and tools such as PDQ Deploy, PowerShell scripting and similar

Systems administration experience with AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Kubernetes, Containers, RedHat Linux, Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows operating systems

Experience with Cloud technology stacks, including AWS Services and/or Microsoft Azure Services

Experience maintaining and upgrading various server platforms including OS builds.

Requirements for success :

Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps Tools, software development and/or operations, delivering flexible solutions in an agile manner.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Relevant DevOps and Cloud technology certifications desirable.

Experience with all phases of the software product life cycle, from conception to extinction

Experience with scripting language(s) such as Bash, Perl, Python, PowerShell or similar

Experience with AWS EKS, AKS, Elastic Bean Stack or other container management software

Experience with Linux and Windows system administration – with knowledge of intermediate commands and concepts.

Experience with Git and/or Subversion version control system

Experience with Opensource tools like Grafana, Promethues and ActiveMQ Container based solutions.

Experience with CI/CD tooling (ArgoCD,, GitHub Action, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.)

Experience with Configuration Management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef)

Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation)

Experience with monitoring tools (PRTG, Pagerduty, OpsGenie, CloudWatch, Nagios, etc)

Experience with designing, building and deploying products using cloud native services with AWS (Amazon Web Services) or Azure

Working knowledge of databases and SQL

Experience with fundamental networking concepts (IP, subnetting, VPC, VPN, Firewalls)

Systems administration experience with VMware ESXi, Windows Server, and RedHat Linux