Senior DevOps Engineer

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

• Participates in planning, architecture, and research around on-prem and cloud deployments. 
• Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including user experience, software design and solver research. 
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to design and create efficient, scalable, and maintainable containerized software solutions for on-prem and cloud deployments. 
• Implement cloud deployment strategies using Kubernetes based environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of applications. 
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud-based containerized applications, addressing performance issues and ensuring system stability. 
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and streamline software release cycles in on-prem and cloud environments with Kubernetes. 
• Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities. 
• May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports. 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience 

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Quantitative Sciences with at least 5 years of commercial experience in software development using object-oriented languages like Python or command languages like Bash. 
• Commercial experience with Docker images creation and optimization. 
• Experience deploying and managing containerized applications in on-prem and/or cloud environments using Kubernetes. 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills 

• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. 
• Experience delivering pipelines in environments such as GitHub Enterprise Cloud, Azure DevOps Server and Services. 
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in cloud and on-prem environments. 
• Familiarity with reverse proxies, load balancers and API gateway tools, as well as with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation. 
• Certifications in relevant cloud technologies such as AWS Certified Developer, Azure Developer Associate, or Google Cloud Certified. 
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.