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Job Description
The Senior DevOps Engineer works with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably. The Senior DevOps Engineer will have a background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations. They will also have experience programming in a high-level language such as Ruby, Python, Java, C# or other language to script installation, configuration, and provisioning. They will be providing continuous delivery solutions in a private and public cloud environment and have experience with the core suite of tools used to manage different cloud providers, including private cloud providers like VMware and Openstack. The Senior DevOps Engineer will establish and employ Continuous Integration practices and tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins or other CI tools. They will have strong experience with cloud native technology like Kubernetes, and containerized platforms. They employ industry Continuous Delivery patterns and collaboratively work with other members to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions.
The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or closely related subject; an advanced degree is preferred. In addition, 5 or more years of experience in designing large and complex IT operations in large organizations. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for mentoring and teaching existing team members. As such, the ideal candidate must have experience clearly explaining solutions to complex problems and demonstrate the ability to lead and impart knowledge effectively to junior resources.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.
- 5 + years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, application development, or operations.
- Working knowledge of enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, network switching, and security infrastructure within a virtualized data center
- Team lead experience required
- Advanced knowledge on running and maintaining cloud native workloads on containerized environments like Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of application development methodologies.
- Adept at evaluating problems accurately and displaying sound judgment
- Scripting (shell, python, ruby) skills for monitoring and automation
- Continuous integration, automation, and Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins, Hudson, etc.
- Experience optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance
- Experience maintaining an infrastructure and ensuring stability while adding new features
- Ability to clearly articulate design and implementation choices
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
- Possess a strong grasp of automation tools
- Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
