Local to Denver, CO Candidates (ONLY) DevOps Engineer- Platform Automation Engineer- Contract

Our Client, a multinational telecommunications technology company has an urgent and immediate need for a certified Kubernetes DevOps Engineer to architect, design, implement, and advocate for automation and infrastructure as code. Seeking a passionate, results-oriented, and innovative individual to contribute to our client's Platform development and PaaS ecosystem built for a Kubernetes-based environment.

Our client's PaaS is built largely on open-source technologies such as Nginx, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and Istio/envoy. The successful candidate will be able to leverage expertise in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps best practices, and Application Development to support and guide an in-house API Gateway and IDP application team.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a proven background in DevOps automation and CI/CD with strong skills in AWS services and architectures, Linux virtualization, the Kubernetes ecosystem and Helm.


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<>Required Skills

Required Skills:

- At least 6 years of relevant work experience to include systems administration and/or software engineering in AWS
- At least 4 years of experience building test automation or infrastructure as code
- At least 4 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines
- Kubernetes (i.e. CKAD and CKA certified): including cluster architecture, control plane, resource management, and troubleshooting skills
- Good understanding of distributed systems: high availability, resiliency, scalability
- Collaborating with architecture and engineering groups to build a self-service pipeline that streamlines application developer productivity and throughput
- A strong understanding of software development methodologies, especially in Java a plus.
- Experience in Linux-based systems and command line
- Experience in scripting on Linux systems: Python, bash, shell scripting, reading and writing imperative code and basic control structures like loops, etc.
- Knowledge of Istio/envoy service mesh
- AWS administration skills
- Proficiency in security implementation best practices including AWS Security Groups, IAM Roles, and Key Management
- Proven excellence in communication, root cause analysis authoring, and consulting skillsets in English.
- Proven experience in analyzing and troubleshooting production workloads in AWS infrastructure.
- Ability to work in office at least 4 days per week in Denver, Colorado
- Ability to work on-call rotation for critical issue escalations.
- Strong experience with Microservices and related deployment technologies to include Git, Helm, and Helmfile
- Applied experience with orchestrator and provisioning technologies for container-based platforms, specifically Kubernetes, Docker and Helm
- Strong understanding of CI/CD including basic patterns build, scan, publish, deploy; environment specific configuration management; experience with GitLab preferred
- Good understanding of networking: DNS basics, routing, etc.