Devops Engineer

Overview

On Site
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 6+ month(s)

Skills

Networking
Docker
Kubernetes
containerization
EKS
Python Script

Job Details

Contact Details:
Job Title: Devops Engineer
Location: Houston, TX
Duration: 6 Months+
Years of Experience: 10+ Yrs.
Required Hours/Week: 40hrs./Week

Notes:

  • Locals are first choice.
  • DevOps concepts and Kubernetes, Networking, Python Script hands on experience are mandatory.
  • Project experience and synopsis should have details on EKS, Docker, containerization, scripting (python script)
What You will Do:
  • DevOps Engineer will be responsible to build, manage, and automate our Workforce Experience Platform infrastructure.
  • You will be working with engineering teams and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation. You will also contribute to track and enhance system resilience and overall reliability of the system.

Technical Capabilities:

  • Automating Tasks: Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes. Design and Write code to automate repetitive tasks, such as provisioning new servers or managing configurations.
  • Troubleshooting Outages: When incidents occur, dive into troubleshooting, identifying root causes, and resolving issues promptly.
  • On-Call Responsibilities: participate in on-call rotations, ensuring 24/7 availability and rapid response to incidents.
  • Monitoring and Observability: They set up monitoring systems, track key metrics, and respond proactively to anomalies.
  • Capacity Planning: analyze system capacity, predict resource needs, and optimize infrastructure.
  • Deployment and Release Management: Deployment, automation, management, configuration and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system.

Process Capabilities:

  • Change Management: oversee how code is deployed, configured, and monitored.
  • Availability and Latency: focus on maintaining high availability and low latency for services.
  • Emergency Response: incident management, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact.
  • Capacity Management: assess system capacity, scaling resources as needed.
  • Documentation: document processes, best practices, and incident resolutions.
  • Collaboration: They work closely with development teams, fostering collaboration and shared responsibility.

What You Will Bring:

  • Experience as Devops for large cloud native applications
  • Communication: Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team
  • Good understanding of Agile processes
  • Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language.
  • System Administration: Familiarity with Operating Systems and networking.
  • Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience on AWS platform - EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS/SQS, Kubernetis, ElastiCache, Lambda, AWS IOT, Kinesis.
  • Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
  • Monitoring Tools: Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools : Grafana and Splunk.
  • Automation: should be comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
  • Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot complex issues.
  • Deployments Know-How : CI/CD, pods management, Sonar Q, Git, etc
  • Experience on enterprise level device manageability and SaaS solutions.
  • Some experience on Gen-AI and other AI related capabilities to enhance monitoring tools.
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