Senior DevOps Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Statesville (NC); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance platform reliability and scalability. This pivotal role involves providing Site Reliability engineering, writing and maintaining code, and leading design sessions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in DevOps, particularly with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, and cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. You'll be instrumental in improving platform uptime and efficiency while reducing manual errors. Join a forward-thinking team where your contributions will drive significant technology transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in DevOps platform engineering or related field.
• Expertise in writing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Provide Site Reliability engineering to automation services.
• Lead design sessions and manage work of DevOps Engineers.

Skills

DevOps platform engineering

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jfrog Artifactory

ELK Stack

Job 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 a Senior DevOps Engineer who can provide Site Reliability engineering to all current and new automation services, write/update/maintain code, serve as the highest point of escalation, lead design sessions, and manage personal work as well as the 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, 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