DevOps Engineer (Python, Configuration Mgmt., Cloud)
• 6-month contract with potential to extend
Remote: Must be located in Illinois or Massachusetts
Optomi, in partnership with a multinational retailer, is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team for a remote role! This DevOps Engineer will contribute in the areas of standardized automated infrastructure and service provisioning, CI/CD, configuration and orchestration, increased adoption of Kubernetes.
Our client's ecommerce platform uses both on-premise and cloud technologies. Join them as they continue their journey toward multi-region cloud vision.
What you will do:
• Be subject matter expert for Linux and range of modern operating systems
• Assist in the migration from CentOS to Ubuntu
• Develop, test, deploy, and optimize IAC code using Ansible or Salt Stack.
• Contribute to establishing and maintaining a secure and well-managed compute environment
• Partner with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud
• Champion high availability for critical systems, and systematically root out single points of failure
• Ensure sufficient logging, monitoring, alerting and other areas of observability for infrastructure with high-availability requirements
• Provide expert technical guidance and ongoing engineering design review to teams planning and implementing large migrations
Qualifications:
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering or systems engineering fields
• 3+ years working with configuration management tools
• Deep experience with configuration management tools such as Salt, Ansible or Chef
• Proficiency creating automation scripts using Python
• You promote openness, diversity of opinions and inclusive discussions at all times to evaluate a wide variety of ideas and perspectives in solving challenging problems
• You demonstrate clear decision making in complex situations
• You communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• You exemplify high accountability, integrity, and resilience to maintain focus on both big-picture goals and milestones to get there
• Experience with monitoring systems, tracing and observability
Additional Qualifications:
• Eagerness to learn and work outside your technology comfort zone
• Ability to be self-motivated, independent, and detail-oriented
• Focus on making yourself and those around you great
• Motivation with an emphasis on team performance
