Kubernetes Container Platform Support Operations Engineer (DevOps)

Job Title: Kubernetes Container Platform Support Operations Engineer (DevOps)

Job Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ

# Positions: 2

Employment Type: C2H

Key Technology: Container Platforms, IAAS, Networks, Kubernetes, ARO

Job Responsibilities:

· Provide hands-on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments.

· Responsible for managing and upgrading Amazon EKS clusters

Implement tools and automation for build, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), deployment, and application monitoring.

· Automate and evolve infrastructure, deployment strategies and testing to support a quick turnaround of deployments.

· Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) responsible for provisioning, configuring, and scaling infrastructure in cloud environments

· Work closely with Engineering to ensure all relevant KPI's are implemented within the monitoring framework.

· Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands-on technical resource capable of resolving all technical issues within lower and upper environments and making recommendations for performance and capacity improvements.

· Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure.

· The desire to resolve issues for a 24x7 environment in a non-impacting yet fast-paced resolve time.

Skills and Experience Required:

Required:

· 5 years of experience with tech stack in AWS:

o Elastic Kubernetes / ElastiCache / KMS

o Networking: VPC / Subnets / Route Tables / Security Groups / Flow Logs

o Compute: EC2 / AutoScaling / Load Balancers

o Database: SQL / RDS / Dynamo / PostgreSQL

o Other: IAM / S3 / CloudWatch / CloudFront / Pulsar / Elasticsearch

· Working experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

· Experience working with third-party vendors

· Able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a cross-functional team

· Demonstrate a desire to automate as much as possible

· Able to participate in on-call rotation

Desired:

· Containerization technologies: Docker or Podman

· Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools: AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps

· Linux system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services, bash scripting

· Networking: solid understanding of routing and networking concepts

· Experience working in an Agile development environment

· Web Servers: Nginx or Apache configurations and reverse proxies

· Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, ServiceNow

Education:

· Bachelor's degree required; relevant, equivalent work experience may be substituted for degree requirement