DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

100% Remote (United States)

Contract

$53-88/hr

Positional Overview

We re seeking an experienced OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer to join a team managing and maintaining the company s container platform. This person should bring expert knowledge of the OpenShift/Kubernetes platform and best practices for cluster deployments to the team. A large part of this role will be playing with the latest and greatest technologies and making recommendations on how to take advantage of them. An ideal candidate should have excellent technical credentials, experience in containers, networking, storage, compute, cloud infrastructure design and implementation, and excellent communication skills.

Role & Responsibility:

• Automate the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of the bank s OpenShift clusters through the creation and deployment of custom pipelines.
• Participate in the review of new cluster configurations and pipelines to ensure they achieve their intended result in a non-disruptive manner.
• Identify, recommend, and implement upgrades and enhancements required to maintain system functionality and optimal performance.
• Lead efforts in infrastructure automation and continuous deployment utilizing a CI/CD pipeline in a private virtualized environment.
• Document any new services or infrastructure being deployed as well as ensuring that current documentation remains accurate and follows best practices.
• Work closely with Technology management, senior Engineers, and support teams on a regular basis to implement and manage the design, development, and execution of technical solutions that meet or exceed current and future needs of the organization.
• Responsibilities may include infrastructure architecture and design, research, and development of new or expanded systems, creation of technology standards and policies, thorough analysis of user requirements and operational constraints, unit test and system integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers, technicians, and integrators.
• Maintain a strong aptitude and working knowledge of Bank applications, systems, development environments, and vendor technologies in use.
• Seek to expand knowledge and understanding of Financial Services trends, practices, and technologies on a continuous basis.
• Coordinate vendor interactions and support tickets when required

Skills & Experience:

• Expert knowledge and experience with container technologies using OpenShift/Kubernetes and Podman/Docker (build, configure, support).
• Ability to write sustainable scripts using a language such as Python, Perl, or Bash.
• Experience with automation and creating Ansible playbooks and/or Terraform HCL.
• Advanced knowledge of Azure services, specifically Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO).
• In-depth experience using GitOps (ArgoCD) to configuring and maintaining Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux systems and how to configure them.