Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a DevOps Engineer position at Prominent Edge, a small, stable, growing company that values teamwork, continuous improvement, and learning. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and related technologies, is organized, detail-oriented, and able to work both individually and as part of a team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of total experience
• Experience automating the provisioning of environments by designing, implementing, and managing configuration and deployment infrastructure as code solutions
• Experience delivering scalable solutions utilizing Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Message Queues, and CloudFormation Templates
• Experience with deploying and administering kubernetes on AWS or GCP or Azure
• Capable of designing secure and scalable solutions
• Strong *nix administration skills
• Development in a Linux environment using Bash, Powershell, Python, JS, Go, or Groovy
• Experience automating and streamlining build, test, and deployment phases for continuous integration
• Experience with automated deployment technologies such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience administering automated build environments such as Jenkins and Hudson
• Experience configuring and deploying logging and monitoring services - fluentd, logstash, GeoHashes, etc
• Experience with Git/GitHub/GitLab
• Experience with DockerHub or a container registry
• Experience building and deploying containers to a production environment
• Strong knowledge of security and recovery from a DevOps perspective

Responsibilities

• Design and implement pipelines that meet customer needs
• Augment our Agile teams to ensure their DevOps needs are met
• Manage access of employees to resources such as G Suite, AWS, GitHub, Slack, etc

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year of web or software development experience
• Experience with RabbitMQ and administration
• Experience with kops
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault, administration, and Goldfish; frontend Vault UI
• Experience with helm for deployment to kubernetes
• Experience with CloudWatch
• Experience with Ansible and/or a configuration management language
• Experience with Ansible Tower; not necessary
• Experience with VPNs; OpenVPN preferable
• Experience with network administration and understanding network topology and architecture
• Experience with AWS spot instances or Google preemptible
• Experience with Grafana administration, SSO (okta or jumpcloud preferable), LDAP / Active Directory administration, CloudHealth or cloud cost optimization
• Experience with kubernetes-based software - example - heptio/ark, ingress-nginx, anchore engine
• Familiarity with the ELK Stack
• Familiarity with basic administrative tasks and building artifacts on Windows
• Familiarity with other cloud infrastructures such as Cloud Foundry
• Strong web or software engineering experience
• Familiarity with security clearances in case you contribute to our non-commercial projects

Benefits

• Six weeks paid time off per year (PTO+Holidays)
• Six percent 401k matching, vested immediately
• Free PPO/POS healthcare for the entire family
• We pay you for every hour you work. Need something extra? Give yourself a raise by doing more hours when you can
• Want to take time off without using vacation time? Shuffle your hours around in any pay period
• Want a new MacBook Pro laptop? We’ll get you one. If you like your MacBook Pro, we’ll buy you the new version whenever you want
• Want some training or to travel to a conference that is relevant to your job? We offer that too!
• The ultimate engineer in charge of the reliability, security, and upkeep of our infrastructure