Lead DevOps Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead both the migration of our solution to containers and the overall design and implementation for container orchestrators such as OpenShift, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
• Create and maintain docker files, manifest files, and HELM Charts for different environments\orchestrators
• Manage builds and deployments
• Deploy new clusters from scratch and upgrade\maintain existing ones
• Lead junior team members effectively
• Work closely with our cross-functional team to achieve scalability and reliability objectives
• Provide support as our customers roll the solution out to their environments
• Effectively troubleshoot operating system issues, configuration problems, authentication errors, and related software defects
• Automate operations such as backup restores, deployments, and upgrades
• Follow security best practices
• Identify potential technical obstacles and come up with solutions
• Evaluate third party technologies to make recommendations for architecture roadmap
• Ability to keep up with industry trends and innovation
• Follow Sunbird's software development process to participate in full software development life cycle

Qualifications

• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or similar
• 4+ years of hands-on experience on Kubernetes or OpenShift and have been involved all facets of configuration and deployments in prior positions
• Expert on Containerization (Docker preferred)
• Experience in Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) (Jenkins/Nexus/GitHub)
• 7+ years of professional experience
• Strong communication skills
• Creative, industrious, self-managed
• Excels when working as part of a small, highly skilled, agile team
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Desired Knowledge and Skills

• Experience in Java, Tomcat and database configurations
• Advanced knowledge of Linux system administration
• Knowledge in the administration and performance tuning of web/application servers (e.g. Tomcat, Puma, Itsio, NGINX)
• Development experience in Perl, Ruby, and\or Java
• AWS
• Experience maintaining servers, IT infrastructure and other equipment in a server room
• Experience in the day-to-day operations of a data center environment, particularly as it relates to planning and infrastructure management

Why Sunbird?

• We are all about delighting our clients and live/breathe the end client/user experience
• We believe in collaboration, teamwork, creativity and taking initiative

Current Application Stack: Angular, Tomcat, Rails, ActiveMQ, Redis, and PostgreSQL