Dev Ops Engineer

SouthTek Resources; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A tactical headhunting firm is looking for experienced Dev Ops Engineers for their San Jose and San Diego offices. The ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of infrastructure and operations experience, particularly in a DevOps culture and will demonstrate skills in AWS cloud solutions and scripting with Python or Ruby. Responsibilities include designing applications, supporting cloud infrastructure, and documenting system designs. This position offers opportunities for impactful work within a leading organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of infrastructure/operations experience, ideally in a start-up environment in a DevOps culture.
• Post Implementation Support background with AWS (S3, EC2).
• Experience in an agile software development environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications.
• Develop and support cloud infrastructure designs and implementations.
• Propose and create system design models and documentation.

Skills

Infrastructure/operations experience

AWS (S3, EC2)

Scripting experience (Python, Ruby)

Network management

Automated deployment

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Nagios

Jenkins

Job description

SouthTek Resources, a full service tactical headhunting firm specializing in the unique staffing needs of the Defense and Aerospace, Technology, Manufacturing, Security, and Private Equity markets.

We are a seasoned group of Senior Level Talent Sourcers who use advanced methods to help clients increase their return on their Human Capital Assets by helping them hire the best.

Job Description

This excellent client is the leader in enterprise data management allowing businesses to rapidly execute any marketing initiatives, achieve one-to-one marketing and deliver great user experiences.

We are looking for Dev Ops Engineers for both our client’s San Jose CA and San Diego CA offices, with a keen understanding of infrastructure and operations, particularly with solid experience developing cloud based solutions and products with AWS (S3, EC2, etc.) and scripting experience (Python, Ruby, etc) with a background to provide operational support and process improvements.

Responsibilities include:

• Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems and plan and perform Operating System and software upgrades
• Develop and support cloud infrastructure designs and implementations while being directly involved in the software deployment process
• Propose and create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to development teams and provide appropriate documentation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of infrastructure/operations experience, ideally in a start-up environment in a DevOps culture
• Post Implementation Support background with virtualization (e.g. Xen/KVM) + AWS (S3, EC2, etc.)
• Experience in an agile software development environment
• Network management experience (including network stack, network tuning, load balancing, subnets/VLANs)
• Experience with automated deployment and automated software tasks
• Understanding of file system and storage configurations such as NFS, SSD data replication
• Hands‑on experience with configuration management and orchestration tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
• Experience with Systems Monitoring tools such as Zenos, Nagios or Sensu

Preferred Experience

• Common open source technologies (e.g. Apache/Tomcat, Nginx, MySQL)
• Big Data tech (e.g. Hadoop, Solr, ElasticSearch, Cassandra)
• Enterprise Wiki tools (e.g., Confluence)
• Continuous Integration tools (e.g., Jenkins)
• Issue Tracking And Project Management tools (e.g., Jira)

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

It is the policy of SouthTek Resources LLC that all employees and applicants for employment shall be provided equal consideration without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran, pregnancy, parenthood, status or marital status.