DevOps opportunity in the Rocklin area

[widebody911]

We have an opening on my team for a devop-sy kind of person. Someone who familiar with technologies like Linux, bash, python, groovy, maven, Jenkins, K8S, Helm, etc.

Pros: pays well

Cons: you'd have to work with me.

PM me if you're interested.

Official job description (a bit pie-in-the-sky optimistic, if you ask me) but if you're even remotely close to this description and interested, PM me

The ideal candidate is someone who has a solid and successful background driving CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as code, configuration management, monitoring, and tools development for enterprise software and systems running in datacenters and on the cloud.
The candidate must have great communication skills, a passion for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, and a strong sense of ownership. A proven track record of designing, developing, and maintaining dependable, mission-critical build pipelines, systems and products is a must. The successful candidate will help drive and build our cutting edge, Nextgen Infrastructure for the entire Enterprise!

Responsibilities:
· Work with developers and the systems engineering team to build long term solutions and tools supporting the Engineering team at large.
· Lead the design and implementation of state-of-the-art Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes.
· Build and innovate to replace large-scale manual operating processes automation.
· Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow engineers to operate safely at high speed and wide scale.
· Driving analysis, design, and development of automation tools for deployment, development, and operational tasks.
o Develop infrastructure as code and testable infrastructure.
o Move systems and infrastructure to the cloud and build pipelines to deploy to the cloud.
o Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance and operational efficiency.
o Work cross-functionally with various teams to drive amazing results.
· Resolve problems at their root with simple and repeatable solutions.
· Design automated systems management solutions with self-repair as the goal.
· Create processes that enhance operation workflow and provide positive customer impact.
· Leverage a variety of cutting edge commercial and open source tools to manage deployments into Test and Production environments.

Qualifications:
Technical – Required
· Bachelors or higher in computer science or equivalent (can be waived for corresponding experience) with 3+ years of relevant experience.
· Expertise with build pipelines, packaging, and artifact management.
· Expertise with programming and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, or Java.
· Extensive experience with CI tools such as Jenkins.
· Strong background in Linux in an enterprise production environment.
· Experience with agile methodologies and practices.
· Experience using configuration management software like Puppet or Ansible.
· Experience with Build Tools such as Maven, Gradle and equivalents.
· Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies.
· Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker and other virtualization technologies).
· Expertise in cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP).
· Familiarity with infrastructure as code platforms like Terraform or equivalent solutions.
· An understanding of network engineering and security principles (e.g. protocols, routing, switching, filtering, firewall rules, etc.).
· Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or Xen.
· Excellent written and oral communication skills.
· Good understanding of security and systems best practices.
· Experience architecting, designing and setting up a CI/CD framework in legacy and non-legacy environments.

Technical - Preferred
· Knowledge supporting and implementing Microsoft Active Directory Services.
· Experience supporting Windows environments using PowerShell or Chef or other management tool.
· Knowledge supporting Java application servers such as Apache Tomcat or JBOSS.
· Experience supporting no-SQL data stores such as Cassandra.
· Experience with API driven infrastructure.
· Experience using containers is a plus (Docker, LXC).
· Experience with public clouds is a plus (AWS, Azure, RackSpace).