Devops Specialist

Job Description

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, provisioning, monitoring, and maintaining Neustar commercial services at an advanced level. The successful candidate requires extensive experience in systems engineering and cloud automation, strong critical thinking, and advanced scripting and coding skills to automate complex tasks. Additionally, the candidate must be highly organized with excellent communication skills and a mindset for continuous improvement. This role requires leadership in On-Call rotation. Lead the design, creation, configuration, and delivery of cloud infrastructure environments using automation best practices and a proactive strategy. Oversee the automation of infrastructure builds in cloud environments. Provide expert technology assessments in support of automation and migration to cloud. Lead the automation of operational processes. Develop and drive improvements, maintaining/monitoring production and non-production systems, ensuring platforms perform at maximum efficiency and security. Ensure compliance, legal, infosec, and privacy concerns are addressed in deployed product components. Automate the full SDLC lifecycle process for application and infrastructure as code workloads. Lead the automation of business continuity/disaster recovery processes. Participate in and lead rotational 24x7 on-call duties. Conduct root cause analysis for service performance incidents and lead remediation efforts. Deep understanding of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles and extensive experience with infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Kubernetes YAML, Helm, or Terraform. Proficiency in using advanced monitoring and debugging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Kubectl). In-depth understanding of core Kubernetes concepts, including pods, services, volumes, deployments, operators, and stateful sets. Extensive cloud experience (AWS or GCP) - preferred. Advanced working experience in Linux environments - preferred. Advanced working experience in Windows environments - preferred.