DevOps Platform Engineer

Title: DevOps Platform Engineer

Location: San Jose, CA- 95131

Duration: 12 Months

As Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, You Will

• Work very closely and integrate with our developers to adopt and drive culture change.
• Together with a team of engineers, design, architect and deliver the next-generation internal developer platform.
• Work with peer technical leaders and their teams to enable engineers to seamlessly deploy their software components using GitOps.
• Focus on continuously improving the DevOps tooling, software installers, 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 processes to help enable and provide better feedback to the developers.
• Monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environment infrastructure.
• Investigate and fix stability, performance, and scalability bottlenecks.

Essential Requirements

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Undergraduate degree in computer science, IT, software engineering, or similar.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software Engineering roles as a DevOps Platform engineer.
• Expert in maintaining and managing software build infrastructure (Azure DevOps(preferable), Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamForge, etc.).
• Expert in container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Expert in IaC technologies such as Helm, Packer, and Terraform.
• Expert experience creating, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Expert experience in version control and source control management (Git).
• Expert in deploying, managing, and maintaining at least 2 of the following SCM toolchain such as Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Nexus, TFS, Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of programming principles, structure, and Versioning.
• Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell; others are nice to have.
• Experience with system management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or Chef.
• Experience and knowledge of Microsoft and/or Linux system administration and networking.
• Experience in managing a VMware-based virtualization environment or similar.
• Knowledge of test-driven development, software configuration management, and automated testing.

Highly Desirable Requirements

• Experience operating in a highly regulated industry.
• Experience in managing CI/CD pipelines for a mixed set of software assets.
• Experience with Crossplane, Kubernetes CRDs.
• Experience in creating VM templates and deploying them at scale and tracking revisions.