Devops Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participates in defining infrastructure system roadmap and the development of long-term strategies to manage and scale the services provided by the Infrastructure Platform Administration team.
• Develops, implements, and maintains infrastructure systems configurations, procedures, and associated training plans.
• Prepares, reviews, and maintains reports necessary to carry out the functions of the Systems administration operation. Proactively intervenes to correct problems when they are encountered. Prepares periodic reports for management to track strategic goal accomplishment.  
• Maintains the build and deployment for applications across the organization’s enterprise hybrid cloud environment.
• Provides 24x7 on-call technical support for infrastructure-related emergencies when not in office and a response time of no more than four (4) hours to these types of events.
• Creates RFPs, bid proposals, contracts, scope of work reports and other documentation for infrastructure projects and associated efforts.
• Collaborates with Software Architects and Application Teams to ensure optimal software delivery, application performance, and scalability to build highly resilient systems.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field strongly preferred. A combination of equivalent technical certifications and experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• CERTIFICATIONS: One or more preferred (or similar, equivalent certification): AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, Puppet Certified Professional, Docker Certified Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of seven (7) years of a mix of Development and DevOps experience with Cloud Service Providers (Azure preferred), Continual Integration/Continual delivery (CI/CD), logging and monitoring tools.
• Proven experience with technologies used to deliver and manage infrastructure environments.
• Experience using IaC tools (e.g., Terraform) and automation tools (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack).
• Advanced container experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platform.
• Demonstrated experience with scripting languages.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Demonstrated ability to manage monitoring, centralized logging, and reporting systems; building dashboards on application and server performance and scalability issues (e.g. Data dog, SignalFX, New Relic, or other operations monitoring tools).
• Advanced ability to document and convey technical information and provide technical guidance to stakeholders regarding operations, system performance, workflow analysis, inventory, and file management.