Remote DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Pythian as a DevOps Engineer and build high-quality solutions to achieve business objectives for our customers. You will work on your own or as part of a team, to understand the path of a project, provide insight on implementation details, and deliver consistent, high quality solutions leveraging automation.

Requirements

• Experience with engineering solutions on major cloud provider platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and one or both of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Hands-on operating system platform configuration, tuning and administration experience with Linux or Windows, preferably both
• Strong understanding of architecture and design patterns used to ensure applications and services are highly available, performant and scalable
• Experience supporting common open-source application stacks
• High proficiency with open source Hashicorp tools including Terraform, Packer, and Vault. Familiarity with related tools and technologies such as Terratest and Terragrunt, and preferably with other idempotent deployment frameworks such as Pulumi
• Proficiency in at least one popular programming language (Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, etc)
• Solid understanding of test techniques and frameworks associated with your language, including test and behavior-driven development, spec tests, unit tests, suites, mocks and fixtures
• Capability to write scripts for maintenance, automation and data processing in a variety of scripting languages (BASH, Groovy, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Powershell, R, etc)
• Experience with common configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc)
• Strong knowledge of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideally with hands-on experience with Kubernetes and tools such as Helm
• Exposure to Anthos is a plus
• Skilled in common CI/CD tools, patterns and techniques, including familiarity with common pipeline enablement products (ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Development methods, workflows and patterns, particularly including Agile and GitOps
• Experience with stream-processing software platforms and services such as Kafka and Cloud PubSub
• Understanding of the principles of data security, including encryption, access control and identity management, and the technical application of associated policies, such as separation of duties and data custodianship

Responsibilities

• Become part of our client’s team, building trust, providing technical leadership and managing client relationships with regards to the current project to which you are assigned
• Work with stakeholders to discover technical and business requirements, assist in project plan creation and documentation for both small and medium sized projects
• Participate in sprint planning activities including story point estimation and ceremonies such as standups, backlog grooming and story refinement, planning and retrospectives
• Implement technical project work and deliver to clients
• Research, evaluate, and recommend third party software and technology packages. Provide component or site-wide performance optimization and capacity planning. Make and document best practice recommendations
• Create automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, cloud, container platforms and data centers
• Continuously learn and improve existing technical skills, and acquire new skills that will be useful for future work

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package with excellent take home salaries, shifted work time bonus (if applicable) and an annual bonus plan!
• Hone your skills or learn new ones with an annual training allowance; 2 paid professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
• 3 weeks of paid time off and flexible working hours. All you need is a stable internet connection!
• We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and budget to personalize your work environment!
• Blog during work hours ; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity