Sr DevOps Engineer

About the Role

Our client in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a long-term contract position. This is a fully remote role with standard business hours (9am to 5pm).

Responsibilities

• Partner with architects and application development teams to evaluate new cloud services, features, and enhancements
• Determine secure patterns and configurations for cloud services
• Write code, scripts, and templates to automate the provisioning and de-provisioning of cloud services using tools like Terraform and cloud provider APIs
• Ensure the security of cloud infrastructure
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to ensure the availability and resilience of public cloud-hosted applications
• Provide technical consulting and expertise to application teams using public cloud services
• Manage public cloud environments
• Enhance automation and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Manage cloud development tools including CI/CD orchestration platforms, source code repositories, artifact repositories, and code quality tools

Requirements

• Working knowledge of core Google Cloud Platform services
• In-depth understanding of Kubernetes
• Experience creating CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of TDD and automated unit, integration, and acceptance testing
• Experience researching and prototyping new capabilities
• Experience using and administering Linux and Windows Server operating systems
• Experience with development tools such as Nexus, Artifactory, SonarQube, Git, SVN, Jira, etc.

Skills

• AWS
• APIs
• Artifactory
• Nexus
• Cloud infrastructure
• Cloud Networking
• Cloud Security
• Cloud development
• Public cloud services
• Cloud Storage
• Concourse
• Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration (CI/CD)
• Docker
• Integration solutions
• Git
• Go
• Google Cloud Platform
• Computer Science / Information Technology
• IT Infrastructure
• Jira
• Java
• Jenkins
• Orchestration platforms
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Azure
• Object-Oriented languages
• Development tools
• Python
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• REST APIs
• Service-Oriented Architectures
• IT Applications
• Design Patterns
• Application development
• Code quality
• SonarQube
• Spring Boot
• SVN
• Terraform
• Vault
• Windows Server operating systems
• Strong communication skills
• Passion for technology
• Resilience and collaboration

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required.

Pay

$70 - $75 per hour.