Sr. DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you are joining a multidisciplinary team of product managers, designers and engineers who create digital products that hundreds of thousands of people experience every day. Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Designs, Develops and Maintains Infrastructure and backend applications on our AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Azure multi cloud environments for all the Digital Applications as part of Digital DevOps Team.
• Help Automate and Streamline Operations and Processes for faster, secure deployments.
• Work with the team of DevOps Engineers and provide technical assistance when needed.
• Manage and Build CI/CD tools/Pipelines and Collaborate with Dev, QA and other teams.
• Work Closely with other DevOps engineers in the team and lead the initiatives on own supporting the DevOps Roadmap.
• Deep Understanding of AWS cloud services and architecture.
• Build and Maintain tools for deployments, Security Patching and Vulnerability Management, and Change Safety.
• Experience of installing, configuring, and maintaining DevOps tools and technologies such as Gitlab CI, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, Jfrog Artifactory and other AWS native services.
• Experience working on Containers and Kubernetes platform.
• Develop validations for end-to-end system verification and configuration management.
• Experience with Linux Infrastructure, Database SQL and No SQL, Configuration management.
• Work closely with RunOps team to support automation for Production issues and leverage scalability with DevOps practices.
• Experience with RCA's, Monitoring and Alarming in all environments and familiar with tools like Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk, ELK stack.
• Work cross-functionally with the various teams in the organization and help establishing the SLOs and then help teams consistently achieve those SLOs.

Educational & Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• AWS (Amazon Web Services) Certification/Google Cloud Platform Certification/Azure Certification is a plus.
• 7+ years of experience in Cloud computing and design.
• 7+ years of working experience in cloud platforms, micro-services architecture, CI/CD solutions, containers, DevOps principles, automation & configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Must have AWS experience including working on Lambda functions, EKS, ECS, Fargate and other services.
• Must have knowledge of Terraform, Ansible or other IaC tools.
• Must have good knowledge to build a scalable infrastructure in the cloud.
• Must have a good knowledge of database management.
• Hands-on development experience using Python, Node.js, or Java.
• Good knowledge in Git repository & versioning strategies.
• A thorough understanding of System administration.
• Experience with Linux required.
• Ability to work in an Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Well organized with a bias for action with minimal direction.
• A team player with a start-up/entrepreneur mindset.
• Ravenous about learning technology and problem solving.
• Effective communication skills.

Salary/Rate: $60-$65/HR (depends on experience level). This is a contract position with candidates expected to work 40 hours/ week.