DevOps Consultant

As a liaison between Development teams and Platform (PAAS) teams, you will be responsible for translating requirements into technical tasks or support requests. You will use coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve problems with custom workflows. Your role involves documenting problems, articulating solutions or workarounds, and being a key contributor on projects to brainstorm the best way to tackle complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problems. You will be expected to learn methodologies for performing incremental testing actions on code using a test-driven approach where possible (TDD). Strong oral and written communication skills with a keen sense of customer service, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills are essential. Being process-oriented with excellent documentation skills is crucial. Knowledge of best practices in a micro-service architecture in an always-up, always-available service is required. Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies and security best practices in a containerized or cloud-based architecture is preferred. Familiarity with event-driven architecture and related concepts is a plus. In terms of experience, familiarity with container orchestration services, preferably Kubernetes, is necessary. Competency with container runtimes like docker, cri-o, mesos, rkt (Core OS), and working knowledge of Kubernetes templating tools such as Helm or Kustomize is expected. Proficiency in infrastructure scripting/templating solutions such as BASH, GO, Python is required. Demonstrated experience with infrastructure code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, or equivalent is a must. Competency in administering and deploying development lifecycle tooling such as Git, Jira, GitLab, CircleCI, or Jenkins is essential. Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Logz.io, Prometheus, Grafana, or full suites of tools like Datadog or New Relic is advantageous. Significant experience with multiple Linux operating systems in both a virtual or containerized platform is expected. Experience with Infrastructure as Code principles utilizing GitOps and secrets management tools such as Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or equivalent would be beneficial.,