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Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes Focused
Location
Pennsylvania + 1 moreAll locations: Pennsylvania | Virginia
Posted
93 days ago
Salary
$145K - $175K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes Focused
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• Participate in all aspects of the software and data product development lifecycle from user story generation, through design, development, automated testing and operational support • Improve quality by actively participating in code-reviews and adhering to team quality standards • Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices • Own the execution of medium-to-large sized features with higher-level technical support • Describe and document the details of your work fluidly and accurately for technical peers and non-technical stakeholders • Think holistically about the application and build with an eye towards long term maintainability and efficiency • Collaboratively provide estimates and other input to the client, project managers, or others about features to help determine their feasibility, complexity, cost, and priority level • Contribute to a culture of positivity, curiosity, and respect for all individuals
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience as a Software, Data or DevOps Engineer and 3+ years of experience with AWS
- Experience building enterprise scale applications with Kubernetes and helm charts
- Experience building and operating Kubernetes via EKS in Amazon Web Services
- Deep Linux proficiency with hands-on experience diagnosing and resolving production Kubernetes incidents at the node and kernel level.
- Experience migrating data stores such as solr, Aerospike or others to the cloud
- Experience with hybrid deployments and operations between on-premise and cloud (e.g. hybrid EKS, database synchronization)
- Experience with GitOps / infrastructure-as-code practices (Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK)
- Experience with cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience with build and deployment automation (Harness, GitLab, Ansible, etc.)
- Experience with infrastructure and application monitoring tools, such as CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, AWS Config, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, etc.
- Firm commitment to and experience with automated testing and continuous integration
- Proponent of continuous improvement and willing to bring new ideas to the team
- Outstanding all-round communication skills and ability to work collaboratively and proficiently in a remote environment
- Energetic, self-motivated, team player used to working in a scrum environment
- Industry Certification: AWS Associate-level certification is required. If not currently held, the candidate must successfully obtain this certification within 12 months of their start date.
- Bachelor's Degree in a technical major, such as Computer Science or Engineering (will consider equivalent professional experience in lieu of degree)
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental and vision benefits
- Life Insurance, Short & Long Term disability insurance
- Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Insurance
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plans with a fixed 3% of salary employer contributions (paid regardless of employee participation)
- Health savings account with a company contribution
- Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent care and transportation)
- Company-paid parental leave after one year of employment
- Flexible work schedules
- Paid employee assistance program
- 6 paid floating holidays
- 4 weeks + 1 day paid Vacation Time Off per calendar year (prorated first year)
- 40 hours paid Sick Leave
- Cell phone stipend
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