Senior DevOps Engineer
 
This position is a Contract-to-Hire.
 
Something about this client (company):
Industry leading B2B portal solutions provider for the world’s largest telecom carriers, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone, TELUS, CenturyLink and alike. The Integrated B2B Portal Solution employs a unique approach by bringing together a carrier’s existing data systems to create an optimized portal experience designed and tailored specifically to the needs of the business user.
 
This opening is to seek a highly motivated, results-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer to help support the newest cloud offerings, automate workflows, and drive developer productivity and operational excellence to new heights. The ideal candidate will have a passion for learning and mastering new technology and understands what it takes to onboard and maintain systems in a highly available environment, undertakes a wide range of responsibilities as well as advise and implement the overall strategy for the company-wide DevOps organization.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and manage the platforms for configuration, building, deploying, and testing.
• Maintain, improve, and organize a highly complex development workflow with many moving pieces.
• Support functioning of cloud, on-premise, and hybrid systems.
• Develop tools for efficient deployment and debugging of software on all used platforms.
• Automate processes to increase efficiency wherever possible.
• Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes, and standards.
• Develop processes for effective monitoring of build systems, deployment status, and reporting of automated test cycle results.
• Collaborate with vendor and infrastructure, engineering teams for security and service availability.
• Serve as a coach/mentor, and advocate for automation across the organization through mentorship and tutorials.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience working with Kubernetes and proficiency in container ecosystems. Proficiency in technologies such as Rancher (or other bare-metal or on-premises Kubernetes orchestration tools), GitOps, Helm, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
• Strong understanding and application of CI/CD concepts with significant hands-on experience developing automated workflows for development, deployment, and testing.
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines that are capable of handling multiple software products, configurations, and versions is a major plus.
• In-depth knowledge of both Linux and Windows Server operating systems.
• Understanding of secure software development and system architecture methodologies.
• Understanding or experience in designing and implementing full stack infrastructure.
• An understanding of core networking concepts related to Kubernetes, container-based ecosystems, network security, and load balancing, F5 experience a plus.
• Experience with Windows-based containers and related concepts is a plus.
• Strong understanding of at least one public cloud platform – preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Proven knowledge and operational track record for a good number of these or equivalent technologies:
  • C#, PowerShell, Java, Python, Perl, Bash, etc. o Ansible, Packer, Terraform
  • GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Travis CI
  • VMWare, Azure, AWS, etc.
  • MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.
  • Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana
  • LDAP & SAML, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, PKI
• Experience working in a 24/7 production environment with teams distributed globally is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to foster effective collaboration across multiple technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced development environment in an independent manner with strong self-direction and initiative, as well as within a team structure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and customer-centric attitude.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a related technical or scientific field, or equivalent industry experience.