Job#: 3057085 Job Description: DevOps Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, California (On-site)
Role Overview
An experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Operations Engineer is required to manage and maintain critical, self-hosted infrastructure. This role focuses on ensuring the stability, security, and scalability of vital infrastructure running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in Google Cloud and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters in Azure Cloud. The successful candidate will join a newly established operations team, collaborating closely with development teams to support critical healthcare and educational infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain production GKE clusters hosting self-hosted GitLab and Vault instances.
- Deploy, manage, and maintain AKS clusters in Azure for new infrastructure projects.
- Perform cluster upgrades, patching, security hardening, and resource utilization monitoring.
- Configure and manage cloud services including load balancers, DNS, firewalls, ingress controllers, and service meshes.
- Automate the deployment of software updates and troubleshoot complex application-level issues.
- Implement and maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability.
- Respond to operational incidents promptly, performing root cause analysis and preventative remediation.
- Develop and test comprehensive backup and disaster recovery plans for Kubernetes environments.
- Create and maintain detailed documentation for all operational procedures and infrastructure systems.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience managing production Kubernetes clusters, including hands-on experience with both GKE and AKS. Additionally, at least 3 years of hands-on experience is required for both Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
Technical Skills: Proficiency with GitLab and HashiCorp Vault administration. Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi, and CI/CD tools. Solid understanding of monitoring systems like Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver, and Azure Monitor. Strong scripting capabilities in Bash, Python, or Go, and a deep understanding of cloud networking and security principles.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with service meshes such as Istio.
- Familiarity with container security tools like Aqua, Twistlock, or Sysdig.
- Relevant certifications, including Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, or Azure Solutions Architect.
- Experience working within highly regulated environments, such as healthcare or finance.
- Prior experience migrating on-premises workloads to cloud environments.
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