Senior DevOps Engineer

About this job

Compensation: $150k - 175k
Location options: Remote
Job type: Contract

Technologies

docker, gcp, kubernetes

Job description

We are looking for a humble positive software engineer who can develop tools that facilitate software development.

• 5+ years of experience as a professional software engineer.
• 2+ years of experience administering Kubernetes Clusters (k8s).
• 2+ years of experience working with GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
• 2+ years containerizing applications for local development (docker, docker-compose, minikube)
• Previous experience creating continuous integration (Github Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
• Previous experience working with k8s deployment automation (kustomize, skaffold, helm).
• Previous experience setting up testing infrastructure for Java Spring Boot (SonarQube, Jacoco).
• Previous experience administering SQL databases (Postgres, Oracle).
• Previous experience setting up container-native monitoring (Prometheus, Graphana, InfluxDB).
• Previous experience administering message buses (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Previous experience administering indexing tools (Solr, Elasticsearch, Lucene).
• Previous experience working with job orchestration (Argo, Airflow) is a plus.
• Experience setting up performance benchmarking testing.
• Experience developing applications in Java, NodeJs and Go is a plus.
• You write code that is understandable, simple, clean and elegant.
• You enjoy autonomy and are able to operate with self-direction.

Skills & requirements

• Design and create automated workflows that help team members quickly deploy and test apps.
• Improve team productivity by supporting local and cloud development environments.
• Develop tools that automate the setup of environments in a container-native (k8s) infrastructure.
• Debug and investigate reliability issues on Google Cloud, using cloud provided tooling.
• Support product applications by responding quickly and responsibly to incidents.
• Document key technical decisions and specifications using diagrams and wikis.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across a small team and a diverse stack to integrate applications.
• Deliver complex product features in a fast environment with limited requirements.