DevOps Engineer

Term is 12months

Location: Hybrid 2 days onsite in Okemos, MI

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS MUS BE A 10

Description:
Contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations. Will assist in engineering solutions that maximize the throughput of code releases through automated, secure and portable tools and functions.
Responsibilities:
Participates in the analysis, design and development of technical specifications, programming, and testing of DevOps components.
Participates in design and scripting reviews to ensure that design and enterprise programming standards and guidelines are followed. Assist with creating or updating the enterprise standards when gaps are identified.
Assists team members in issue resolution, scalability metrics, integration issues, and critical production issues as required.
Follows technology best practices and standards and escalates any issues as they deem appropriate. Follows architecture and design best practices (as guided by the Senior Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer & Architectural team).
Responsible for assisting in configuration and scripting to implement fully automated infrastructure provisioning, image builds, and instance deployment capabilities.
Follows standard change control and configuration management practices.
Participates in 24-hour on-call rotation in support of the platform.
Required Skills/Qualifications
Drive and desire to automate repeatable processes
Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, as well as the willingness to collaborate with teams across the organization
Experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/programming.
Linux/Unix OS experience
Strong Kubernetes experience required.

Desired Skills/Qualifications
KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification
Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment
Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. OpenStack, Azure, AWS, etc.), container concepts (eg. Docker), infrastructure deployment tools (eg. Ansible, Chef, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg. ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)