Senior DevOps Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Stratford Solutions Inc.
Location: Houston, TX 77084
Description:
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: 100% Remote
Labor Category: Specialist 3
Job Type: Contract 12 Months
Scheduled Work Hours: Normal business hours Monday-Friday 9-5, 40 hours/week (not including mandatory unpaid meal break after 6 hours of work).
Rate: $70 to $75 per hour
Job Description Justification:
We are looking for Senior DevOps Engineer who can provide Site Reliability engineering to all current and new automation services, write/update/maintain code, highest point of escalation, lead design sessions manage personal work as well as work of DevOps Engineers. The Senior DevOps Engineer role is critical to ensuring the stability, scalability, and security of our platforms. The role will enable us to improve platform reliability and uptime, increase efficiency and reduce manual errors and support agency growth and technology transformation initiatives.
SCOPE OF SERVICES:
TASKS:
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered.
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
Location: 100% Remote
Labor Category: Specialist 3
Job Type: Contract 12 Months
Scheduled Work Hours: Normal business hours Monday-Friday 9-5, 40 hours/week (not including mandatory unpaid meal break after 6 hours of work).
Rate: $70 to $75 per hour
Job Description Justification:
We are looking for Senior DevOps Engineer who can provide Site Reliability engineering to all current and new automation services, write/update/maintain code, highest point of escalation, lead design sessions manage personal work as well as work of DevOps Engineers. The Senior DevOps Engineer role is critical to ensuring the stability, scalability, and security of our platforms. The role will enable us to improve platform reliability and uptime, increase efficiency and reduce manual errors and support agency growth and technology transformation initiatives.
SCOPE OF SERVICES:
TASKS:
- Configure the HA JFrog High Availability
- Mirror Elastic non-prod with production including any authentication issues
- Resolve IaC drift for Elasticsearch (non-prod, & prod), & Jfrog
- Perform general platform engineering work: Code updates, platform service updates, new service deployments, bug fixes, feature delivery
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered.
- 12+ years of experience in DevOps platform engineering or related field.
- Expertise in writing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, including module development and state management.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), infrastructure services including virtual networks, storage, and compute resources.
- Experience with Kubernetes containerization and orchestration
- Familiarity with Jfrog Artifactory and HA configurations, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
- Experience with automation tools such as Ansible.
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
- OpenShift
- Elasticsearch
- Ansible Automation Platform
- Azure Kubernetes service
- Azure storage
- Azure networking
- Project management
- Data processing and data pipelining experience
- Logstash and log stash filters
- Kafka deployment and support
- NSX-T - VMware vSphere