DevOps Engineer

Job Description
Position: DevOps Engineer
Location: Fremont, CA
Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:
• Works with external customers and internal support and build teams to determine how best to leverage tools and techniques involving infrastructure as code, configuration management and other DevOps-type techniques to improve delivery quality, speed and experience.
• Partners with SDM, Delivery teams and Support to find opportunities to reduce manual updates/changes needed to complete deployments.
• Supports Professional Services engagements with ‘engineering muscle’ and technical consultative assistance (Sr.) to help our customers design systems that are purpose-built and well suited to their target infrastructure
• Seeks to build reusable, repeatable toolsets, components and modules for future use with other clients where possible
• Coordinates and consults with SA and Sales teams to further streamline and detail out the build, deploy and management process for scoping and design of new and updated systems being deployed into the ecosystem.
• Provides feedback and assistance to the Platform team to help build out the underlying tools and technologies required to build and support modern deployments in the Ecosystem
• Consumes and provides feedback to product delivery teams on ways’s products can be more usable and accessible for internal and external programmatic use (API and above)
• Travels up to 50% to meet with clients to discuss to work through deployment processes in-person with key client subject matter experts

Experience:
• History of Engineering and Sys Admin/Ops roles is highly preferred
• Experience handling large scale, multi-tenant systems—ideally in a setting with many multiple customers with multi-tenant systems
• Significant # of different technologies on resume with ‘more than beginner’ depth
• Several technologies (20% or more) should be at Sr. to Expert level
• Successful history of Designing (Sr.), Developing (Mid and Jr level) infrastructure, configuration and deployment automation at large scale/high complexity
• Significant experience managing, diagnosing and debugging matrixed problems across multiple disciplines (app, infrastructure, db, etc
• Understands nuances between common technologies leveraged in Automation/DevOps world such as Configuration Management:
• Ansible vs. Puppet vs. Chef vs. Saltstack.. etc.
• AWS vs Azure vs. Google vs. VMWare
• Can talk through at a decent level of depth on how to build out a module/cookbook/role in their configuration management tool of choice including:
• Requirements/scope
• Parameterization
• Code structure
• Testing
• Deployment usage within a larger set of modules

Specific Skills:
Deep knowledge of IaaS platform(s) - primary focus on AWS, possible Azure, Google, VMWare
One or more configuration management tools with strong/deep knowledge
Strong understanding of infrastructure automation tooling (terraform, cloud formation, others…)
Strong understanding of application deployment/configuration processes

Thanks & Regards
Chenthil

Additional Information
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