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DevOps / CloudOps Engineer (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a DevOps / CloudOps Engineer for our client in Charlotte, NC, OR Jersey City, NJ, OR Dallas, TX. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Job Description:

  • Our Client is currently seeking an experienced Sr. DevOps / CloudOps Engineer to support our mission of providing secure, reliable and innovative payment solutions to our healthcare clients.
  • The Sr. DevOps Engineer works to deliver high-quality cloud solutions and helps drive a strong DevOps culture.
  • As part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for the architecture, development, deployment, and operations of our cloud infrastructure.
  • You will be expected to share the on-call duty with the rest of the DevOps and engineering teams.
  • Working closely with our Development teams you will be a champion of DevOps best practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as code, containerization, microservice architecture, automated testing, and security.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Developers to build a world-class infrastructure that can meet our customer’s security and uptime requirements
  • Act as a key contributor to the development of our developer and CI/CD processes to improve our developer agility and code quality
  • Manage mission-critical cloud-based production systems; proactively take action if/when systems are down or there are interruptions in service; root cause and implement corrective actions to build long-term customer loyalty
  • Help create and evolve our operational processes
  • Help to identify emerging technologies that can enhance our offering to our customers
  • Be passionate about automation, quality, reliability, and scalability

Required Skills:

  • Knowledge of Azure and its associated technologies, both from DevOps and CloudOps perspective
  • Knowledge of Azure cluster management for VMs that run containerized services and S3 buckets
  • Creating Azure pipelines and manage IAM rule based policies
  • Design and manage highly scalable/available Cloud Infrastructure
  • Extensive knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure as code
  • Extensive knowledge of CI/CD tools and configuration of build and release pipelines
  • Working with version control tools such as Bitbucket or Github
  • Perform Patch management tasks include: maintaining current knowledge of available patches, deciding what patches are appropriate for particular systems, ensuring that patches are installed properly, testing systems after installation, and documenting all associated procedures.
  • Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management.
  • Test new releases of products to ensure compatibility and minimize user impact.
  • Develop and document technical processes and procedures as needed. Provide technical assistance and support for incoming queries and issues related to computer systems, software, and hardware.
  • Minimum 3+ years in Cloud Technologies preferably Azure
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience with deployment orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS, and Elastic Beanstalk
  • Minimum 2+ years of experience working with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI or Jenkins
  • Minimum 2+ years of experience with Docker and Docker-Compose
  • Minimum 4+ years with configuration management and automation tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation, SaltStack, Terraform)
  • Strong Linux system administration experience
  • Strong programming experience in at least one language (python, node, java, go, c/c++, ruby)
  • Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as ELK, DataDog or NewRelic, LogEntries, SumoLogic, etc.
  • Experience with Incident Management and crisis management
  • Able to participate in 24/7 on-call rotation
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

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