Title: GCP DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote, Will need to relocate to Winston-Salem once Covid is cleared. 

Duration: 6 month contract to hire. Candidates must be willing to go full time with the client after the contract period if offered. 

Experience: Range- 5 - 8 years

Qualification- Bachelors or Masters degree: 

About the Team:

The Platform Engineering team is responsible for the end-to-end build, scale and management of the infrastructure required to operate the client's products and services. Platform Engineering is primarily focused on the ownership of Platform Services.

 Responsibilities: 

• Design, develop, automate and operationalize software updates with zero downtime.
• Build and automate and secure application configuration, auto deployment and provisioning services
• Develop innovative ways to smartly measure and monitor application and Infrastructure health
• Work with engineering and product management to architect and build features that are highly available, high-performance and secure.
• Interact with the Engineering for supporting/maintaining/designing backend infrastructure for product support
• Have experience with modern virtualization technologies (Docker, KVM, OpenStack or any orchestration platforms)
• Automation of deployment, customization, upgrades and monitoring through modern DevOps tools (Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform etc)
• Create fully automated global cloud infrastructure that spans across multiple regions.
• Automation is a part of your daily functions, so thorough familiarity with Unix Bourne shell scripting and Python as a critical survival skill.

 Requirements: 

• Minimum 5-10 years of experience in production environment, DevOps or IT Infrastructure
• Hands-on working with private or public cloud services in a highly available and scalable production environment
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems administration and architecture
• Good development experience in Automation using Python or other language.
• Understanding of networking and network virtualization required.
• Extensive experience with Linux systems virtualization, and network administration.
• Experience in improving performance of web applications and solve scaling/performance issues
• Good experience in Building tools and automation that eliminate repetitive tasks
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, Ansible etc.
• Working Experience in source control tools such as GIT/Github/Gitlab, SVN, or Perforce, GCP
• Experience with big data infrastructure like Hadoop, Mongo DB and large SQL deployments is a big plus.
• Knowledge of distributed systems a big plus.
• Flexible, Adaptable and proactive nature