Senior DevOps Engineer

Job description

Our client is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer as a lead role for their DevOps environment with his experiences, best practices, and a collaborative attitude to help drive DevOps initiatives. The responsibilities include both managing and building processes for automation as well as contributing to the development of internal tools to achieve operational efficiency.

Job Duties

• Develop automation flows that enable fast delivery and replace manual operating procedures wherever they exist to enable self-service operations
• Drive analysis, design, and development of automation tools for deployment, development, and operational tasks
• Deploy & operate Kubernetes clusters
• Lead architectural improvements and evaluate new technologies
• Maintain and enhance our CI/CD pipelines
• Deploy & manage monitoring/observability infrastructure for staging & production level systems and services
• Prioritizing requests from operations & engineering teams fairly while demonstrating a sense of empathy
• Make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices

Job Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience within hands-on technical DevOps/Cloud engineering
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc)
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment patterns and tools such as Helm, Kustomize and Operators
• Experience utilizing DevOps tool chains including Jenkins, Docker, Nexus, SonarQube, Github
• Experience with tools used for observability such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger etc.
• Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Exposure to Agile environments (use of Jira/Confluence, sprints, etc.)
• Enterprise level experience
• Great communication skills and team player mentality
• Desirable
• Experience with event steaming tools (ie Apache Kafka) and architecture patterns
• Experience with OLAP architectures
• An understanding of network engineering and security principles (e.g. protocols, routing, switching, filtering, firewall rules, etc.)
• Experience with Azure public clouds is a plus
• Knowledge supporting and implementing Microsoft Active Directory Services