Sr. DevOps Engineer – Contract

Job Description:

Will be a member of “stellar” team architecting, deploying, provisioning and supporting systems in a hybrid environment.

Will help to choose and deploy open-source and proprietary tools and technologies to build and support a cutting edge technology environment, with an emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment, high availability systems and services with a low tolerance for the downtime, software releases.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and maintain high availability solutions in both multi-cloud environment and multiple colocations with physical assets

• Automate provisioning, monitoring, configuration management and deployments by using industry best practices and tools

• Provide day-to-day operational support of mission-critical systems and services. Pager-duty one week a month

• Respond to Production outages and service disruptions. Triage, escalate, fix and collaborate with peers on the long-term solutions

• Provide expertise in tools used for software development: CI/CD pipelines, automated version control systems, software artifacts management tools and etc.

• Work with public cloud platforms with emphasis on Google Cloud Platform. Apply IaaS and IaC concepts.

• Work on systems upgrades, cutovers and infrastructure migrations. Support software releases from DevOps standpoint

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps/Build and Release roles (mid-to-large-scale environments)

• Experience deploying, scaling and administering mission-critical services in the multi-cloud environment (GCP/AWS) and on premises.

• Experience deploying, configuring, managing and automating CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/Concourse and others

• Experience installing, configuring and administering VCS systems: Gerrit, Github, Perforce

• Extremely comfortable with Linux like environments. Comfortable with administering Windows

• Expertise in configuration management automation: Ansible, Chef and etc.

• Ability to quickly respond to production outages, triage complex architectures by following standard operating procedures and escalation workflows

• Familiar with cutting edge virtualization tools: Docker, Vagrant, Terraform, GKE

• Experience deploying, configuring and administering multi-tier applications (Proxy layer, Application layer, Data layer: MySQL, PostgreSQL and etc.)

• Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools

• Expertise with the scripting languages: Yaml, Python, Bash and Groovy

• Excel in a fast-paced, agile environment supporting multiple projects using a wide variety of cutting edge technologies

• Firm grasp of the Agile SDLC methodology and practices

• Strong communication skills and ability to be a team player.

Education:

BA/BS, MS preferred, in Computer Science or relevant field preferred, considerable weight will be given to experience and prior accomplishments

Location: Sunnyvale or Plantation

Contract: 6-12 months