Title: DevOps Engineer - Hybrid - Local to CA Only
Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Length: Long term
Restriction: W2 or C2C

Description:

Webcam interview *** 12 months contract *** Hybrid ***

*** Local to CA Only ***

*** Mandatory Telecom domain Experience ***

As a DevOps Engineer, you will specialize in developing tools for a continuous deployment of a cloud based networking service platform. You will also help operate and monitor the service.

Qualifications:

4+ years as Systems Administrator/Engineer, DevOps Engineer or platform developer in a mid to large Linux environment
Strong IT/Ops background with focus on Process and MOPs
Strong Linux fundamentals, with experience in Centos, RPM
Solid understanding of containers, familiar with Kubernetes or other orchestration systems
Familiarity with deployment and management systems such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef, Packer, Terraform, etc.
Strong grasp and practical experience with automation and virtualization of at least one cloud platform (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack, AWS)
Expertise in building/maintaining/sustaining monitoring systems like: nagios, op5, etc.
Strong with at least one scripting and/or high level language: Python, Node.js, Java, Shell, Perl, Golang
Production experience working with load balancers and web stack based application environments
Familiarity with cloud technologies like Apache Kafka, Spark, Zookeeper, etc.
Solid grasp of operating and managing NoSQL DB such as Cassandra, Hadoop
Familiarity with REST/SOAP/JSON APIs
Systems and application monitoring and performance tuning knowledge a plus
Familiarity with messaging systems like ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, and Kafka is a plus
Experience with distributed file system (GlusterFS/Ceph) a plus
Experience in AWS VPC, Networking and Security
Self motivated, with excellent oral and written communication skills
Experience in building, maintaining, supporting Cloud based applications with 24x7 monitoring of logs and alerts.
Bachelors degree in computer science or related field. Masters preferred.
Responsibilities:

Development and design of systems, with a focus on automation and maintainability at a large scale
Software and hardware testing and deployment to staging and production environments
Platform integration: Programmatic infrastructure management
Develop software infrastructure and build tools useful in development lifecycle
Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across dev, qa, monitoring and other cross functional teams
Maintain and monitor production systems for capacity issues, performance and conduct proactive health checks
Incident trouble shooting, with quick remediation for issues.