Lead Infrastructure Engineer (IBM DataPower/APIM)

Lead Infrastructure Engineer (IBM DataPower/APIM)

Must Have

Current Health insurance Customer Exp - Preferred

Reston, VA

Monthly Hybrid 1- 2x per month onsite meetings

Candidates only from -DC, MD, VA, WV

$80/hr on C2C

Phone/ or Video + F2F interviews

CareFirst Client

Seeking Cloud Virtualization Engineers to design and optimize cloud-native environments, focusing on automated deployment and recovery.

Leveraging expertise in Kubernetes, Kubert, Linux-based hypervisors, and automation tools like Ansible and Terraform, you'll drive innovation in virtualization and develop containerized solutions, emphasizing cloud-native infrastructure over VMware.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design, installation, and administration of containerized virtualization environments using KubeVirt, VMware, and Hyper-V

- Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring seamless deployment and maintaining high availability, security, and performance

- Administer and fine-tune Linux systems to support virtualized infrastructure and containerized workloads

- Build and maintain automated solutions for monitoring, scaling, and analyzing infrastructure using tools like Ansible and Terraform

- Anticipate capacity needs and recommend architecture upgrades to prevent resource limitations

- Develop automated incident response mechanisms, track critical system metrics, and participate in an on-call rotation for high-priority issues

Required Skills

Education and Experience:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field

- Equivalent experience with 4+ years of relevant work in virtualization and cloud-native environments

- 2+ years of experience with virtualization technologies such as KubeVirt, VMware, and Hyper-V, managing distributed environments across multiple data centers

Skills And Qualifications:

- Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters and Linux systems administration

- Proficient in Python, Shell scripting, Perl, Ruby, or similar languages for automation and infrastructure management

- Skilled in automating deployments with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools within a CI/CD pipeline

- Proven success providing advanced support for bare-metal, virtual environments, and mass storage systems

- Experience managing large-scale virtualization environments with KubeVirt, VMware, or Linux-based hypervisors