ERP SAVVY is seeking a highly skilled Senior Infrastructure and Azure DevOps Engineer to join our team. The primary function of this role is to advance the infrastructure team from a traditional infrastructure methodology to an infrastructure as code approach. This key resource will be responsible for maintaining and expanding all aspects of RHEL servers and the orchestration platform for containers using Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of application pipelines and will occasionally help troubleshoot and integrate CI/CD with Kubernetes providing an automated build and configuration process for BareMetal that is hardware agnostic. The role also requires oncall rotation when necessary.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Build out additional automation for Windows/Linux OS platforms Storage platforms and DB platforms.
- Roadmap architect and collaborate with development teams to transition and enhance their existing CI/CD pipeline.
- Assist with the design and building of reliable faulttolerant private cloud infrastructure following industry best practices.
- Leverage cloud technologies and best practices onpremise and in Azure.
- Act as a thought leader across multiple teams and technologies to drive change towards an infrastructure as code approach.
- Use automation to reduce operational workload to support teams.
- Implement automated infrastructure configuration management using Ansible or similar tools.
- Incorporate security best practices within the CI/CD pipeline using processes or tools.
- Identify performancerelated issues on the platform and determine possible causes.
- Provide operational support for core infrastructure services including transitioning to traditional infrastructure server storage and network.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum of five years of experience in a lead role in a large containerized environment using Kubernetes as the main platform for container orchestration.
- Minimum of four years of experience working on Linux as a power user or administrator specifically RedHat or equivalent distro.
- Minimum of three years of experience working with Windows Servers either from an application support role or administration.
- Minimum of two years of experience with container workloads deployed on Kubernetes either onprem or public cloud. This requires fundamental knowledge of image management Kubernetes functioning and registry operations related to Kubernetes.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Social Science Education Business Health Care or a related field.
- Minimum of eight years working in IT or Operations. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Three years of experience writing documentation or standard operating procedures related to system administration.
- Three years of experience with cloudnative apps such as Grafana Prometheus MongoDB and Postgres.
- Two years of experience with Ansible automating infrastructure components (e.g. server VM and network).
- Two years of experience managing ingress in Kubernetes using NGINX Istio and network policies with Calico.
- Two years of experience building and maintaining Docker images.
- One year of experience working with ServiceNow for managing incidents and service requests.
Location: Pleasanton California (Hybrid Onsite two days a week)
Relocation: Required for candidates not currently in the Bay Area
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