Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer

Job Description:

• Providing highly specialized senior technical knowledge and coordinating administration, monitoring, management, and implementation of configuration management and automation of processes.
• Providing expertise in working with the right tools and processes to build an efficient and effective automated environment for DevOps.
• Providing expertise in automation for network/infrastructure provisioning using.
• nsible, Jenkins, configuration management to keep track of software and operating system configurations.
• Providing expertise with writing code to replace manual infrastructure provisioning processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes with automated processes.
• Providing expertise with creating automated processes for system monitoring and alerting on downtimes, errors and similar events.
• Providing expertise with configuration of containerized applications in enterprise environment.
• Providing expertise with VMware-based virtualization and cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
• Delivering high quality technical documentation upgrade documents, run books, etc.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Technical Skills - 50%:

• Experience in Linux administration in enterprise environment and Linus shell scripting fundamentals.
• bility to handle popular scripting languages and well-versed with at least one scripting language (preferably Python) to automate repeatable processes.
• Experience with automation for infrastructure provisioning using Ansible, Jenkins and network automation processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes.
• Experience with configuration management to keep track of software and operating system configurations.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach.
• Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes.
• Experience with continuous monitoring to monitor system and application performance and alert on downtimes, errors and similar events.
• Fundamentals of Docker containers and containers orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Open Shift.
• Experience with running containerized applications in enterprise environment.
• Fluency in git-based source code management and version control systems - Git, GitHub, GitLab etc.
• Experience in VMware-based virtualization and in using cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, is a plus.
• Understanding of administration and management of tools like, Ansible, Jenkins, Netbox and others popular for IaC.
• Experience in writing technical documentation - how to wiki, upgrade docs, run books etc.

Communication/Analytical Skills - 30%:

• Demonstrated excellent teamworking, communication, collaboration skills, interpersonal, problem-solving, written, and oral communication skills with the ability to work well in a collaborative environment.
• Demonstrated good attention to detail, excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
• wareness of DevOps and Agile principles; desire and interest to advance in these areas.

Industry and Project Management Knowledge - 20%:

• Experience in working on multi-year projects.
• Knowledge of project management methodology, tools and processes.