Platform Devops Engineer

Job title: Platform DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Plano, TX

Other Locations: Pleasanton, CA or Phoenix, AZ

Work Model: Hybrid

Project Duration: 6 months

Job Summary:

Seeking an experienced Platforms Engineer to join our Platform Services team.

These positions will be reporting into our Cloud and Operations group.

This individual will work across all IT Portfolio's to evaluate, recommend and enable technologies, tools and develop Frameworks, drive adoption across the company. Keys to these positions are critical thinking, technology awareness, Market research, Open source mindset and communication to influence Technology direction with development teams.

Required Skills:

• Excellent AKS, GKE or Kubernetes admin experience.

• Good troubleshooting experience on istio service mesh, connectivity issues.

• Experience with Github Actions or similar ci/cd tool to build pipelines.

• Working experience on any cloud, preferably Azure, Google with good networking knowledge.

• Experience on python or shell scripting.

• Experience on building dashboards, configure alerts using prometheus and Grafana.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, test, and maintain tools and processes for build, deployment, and configuration management.

• Ensure accessibility, security, reliability, availability, and performance of infrastructure.

• Administer tools and processes to build, test, deploy, and monitor software.

• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations.

• Serve as the last line of support for services and applications in production.

• Evangelize a DevOps culture of automation, self-service, and engineering best practices to enable development teams to go from development to production with minimal effort.

Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of all layers of the TCP/IP stack and common Internet services/protocols such as SMTP, DNS, LDAP, NTP, and HTTP.

• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks, such as Selenium, JUnit, or TestNG.

• Knowledge of DevOps CI/CD platforms such as Harness, CloudBees, or GitHub.

• Proficiency in shell scripting and Python is highly desirable.

• Deep troubleshooting skills involving analysis of logs, traffic trace, configuration data, and automation tools to resolve issues until end-to-end systems are functioning.

• Experience with infrastructure provisioning tools such as Chef, Terraform, or Puppet in production environments with many nodes, and understanding of Linux and Windows platforms.

• Experience deploying to and orchestrating containers in production environments, Docker, Kubernetes.

• Experience with RESTful services, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, cloud systems Azure, and API Management.

• Knowledgeable about security, networking, and RDBMS/Database technologies such as Postgres, MySQL, Redis.

• Strong mission to put proactive solutions in place to prevent future problems and automate processes so that engineers can self-service their operational requirements.

• Passion for open-source technologies, developing common libraries to be used by the developer community.

• Strong experience in developing platform components and helping development teams build consistent applications.

• Required ability to work across platforms and languages at all levels of the stack.

• Strong motivation for self-directed learning to take on challenges and provide solutions in a fast-paced environment in areas such as API management, microservices, DevOps, and common frameworks.

• In-depth knowledge of developing frameworks and common services in collaboration with the development community.

• Ability to work in an Agile environment.

• Development experience in designing/implementing large-scale, distributed systems in production-class software on public cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP.

Years of Experience: 3-5 Years of Experience

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.