DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes, AWS experience - SaaS Company!

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Salary: $120,000 - $140,000 per year

A bit about us:

We are a computer software company that helps organizations keep their employees safe and their businesses running smoothly. We recently acquired a flexible, intuitive EHS system designed for small and mid-sized organizations. This allows our clients to easily collect, evaluate, and share safety information across their organization to cultivate a culture of safety and enable regulatory compliance!

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1. Please tell me about your recent Kubernetes experience.
2. Which cloud platforms do you have the most experience with?
3. Do you have experience building projects from scratch? If so, what types?
4. Why are you looking for a new position?
5. What annual salary are you targeting?
6. What is your citizenship status?

Why join us?

• Annual Bonus potential of up to 10%!
• Full Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• PTO
• Paid Holidays
• 401k
• Telehealth options

Job Details

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who has experience managing large SaaS solutions and creating Build and Deployment pipelines for various applications that meet modern CI/CD standards.

*Most immediate project: Desired States Configuration – previous experience there would be great. Brand new initiative so would be building it from scratch!*

First 2 weeks:

• Assist the DevOps team with tickets within established Service Level Agreements (SLA) to better understand the integration between the business and technology groups
• Configure your local system with Kubernetes to support legacy products

First 30 days:

• Manage project and task work using Azure DevOps (Visual Studio Team Services)
• Review and adhere to all documented processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the IT team
• Review and gain knowledge of Application Insights and additional monitoring tools used in Production
• Review and understand the systems architecture and promotion paths

First 90 days:

• Participate in an on-call rotation for production support and deployments
• Develop a tactical approach to fixing issues reported by application insights and additional monitoring tools
• Provide best practice recommendations to facilitate CI/CD processes
• Work closely with Database team to further automate database deployment processes
• Participate in facilitating retrofit of legacy build and release to Octopus Deploy
• Develop Desired State Configuration automation
• Assist in supporting legacy products which utilizes Ansible Playbooks, Kubernetes Cluster, Linux Hosts and AWS Cloud Hosting
• Evaluate cloud solutions to containerize existing microservices
• Contribute to and help implement the DevOps portions of the Technical Roadmap

By 6 months:

• Serve as the first escalation point for your team members
• Perform an assessment of the current environment including automation, build and release processes, and SOP’s and present recommendations for changes or improvements
• Assist in a cloud migration to Microsoft Azure
• Fix or Report all issues relating to build and release in Azure Devops and Octopus Deploy.
• Provide weekly performance summary of the build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps
• Restructure project access in Azure Devops to facilitate access roles

By 1 year:

• Attained subject matter expertise of all DevOps processes related to key products
• Increased reliability of build and release process leading to a CI/CD methodology
• Reduced the time to build new environments through automated processes
• Obtained a minimum of one Microsoft certification directly contributing to the our Microsoft Partnership competencies

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
• Strong competency in Microsoft products and services
• Experience with PaaS technologies such as containers, container orchestration and scheduling, service registration / discovery and monitoring (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Practical experience developing software or meeting operational needs with code and scripting (Powershell, Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby)
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and supporting tools (Azure DevOps, Octopus, similar)
• Strong competency Microsoft Azure products and services
• Experience with infrastructure automation frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, or similar)

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