Staff Devops Engineer

Job Title - Staff DevOps Engineer (Energetic with leadership skills, Azure, Kubernetes)

Location - San Jose, CA

Duration - 6+ Months Contract

Client: Medical Device Company

Job Category: Engineering

Level Of Experience: Seniority Level

Employment Type: Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens Or GC Holders Only)

Work hours: regular, 40/w 8 AM-5 PM
Remote until further notice from client and then required to go back to the office.

3 Must-haves on the resume:

Energetic with leadership skills, Azure, Kubernetes.
leadership experience in project, teams but will reject candidates who have been managers as they have close to no hands-on experience.

As Staff DevOps Engineer you will:

• Work very closely and integrated with the Development community to adopt culture change.

• Together with a team of engineers, enable streamlined software development, by managing and owning the entire automated build pipeline, DevOps toolchain, and associated test environments from source control to software delivery.

• Work with peer technical leaders and their teams to enable engineers to seamlessly create CI/CD pipelines for their software components.

• Focus on continuously improving the DevOps tooling and software delivery processes.

• Own and maintain highly reliable environments and toolchains with clear communication and timeliness of any disruptions to internal stakeholders.

• Leverage industry-standard techniques and processed to help enable and provide better feedback to the development community.

• Monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environments infrastructure

• Investigate and fix performance and scalability bottlenecks

Essential Requirements

• Expert in maintaining and managing software build infrastructure. (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TravisCI, TFS, TeamForge, etc.)

• Expert with container technology and subsequent technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Amazon ECS, Azure Service Fabric, Harbour, Helm, Packer, Terraform.

• Expert experience creating, maintaining, and supporting automated build pipelines.

• Expert experience in version control and source control management (Subversion, TFVC, Git)

• Expert in deploying, managing, and maintaining at least 2 of the following SCM toolchain such as Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Nexus, TFS

• Strong understanding of programming skillsets, structure, and Versioning.

• Strong working knowledge of MSBuild.

• Experience in an object-oriented programming language (Java, C , C , etc )

• Experience in scripting languages such as bash and python.

• Experience and knowledge of Microsoft system administration and networking.

• Knowledge of test-driven development, software configuration management, and automated testing.

• Experience in managing a VMware-based virtualization environment or similar.

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, IT, software engineering, or similar

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in Software Engineering roles

Highly Desirable Requirements

• Experience with system management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or Chef.

• Experience in managing an automated build pipeline for a mixed set of software assets.

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)

• Experience using Wix and/or InstallShield.