Devops Engineer

15 Jun 2024

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Collinwood is assisting our client one of Chicago's well-known Investment Firms, in seeking an experienced

Devops Engineer. Our client is seeking candidates at their Chicago, IL New York, NY, and Austin, TX locations. (This is a Hybrid role working 2 days on site and 3 days remote.)As a DevOps Engineer, you will manage our infrastructure for running containerized technology. You will work on building, scaling, and monitoring various highly complex applications with a focus on ensuring our container orchestration cluster is highly available. This is a role for someone who flourishes in a fast-paced environment, has a strong technical background, and has a customer/product-first mindset.

What you will be doing:
  • Administer and evolve our on-prem Kubernetes clusters, including all Kubernetes master node components, etc cluster, and solutions for container networking and container storage
  • Work on a platform for monitoring, logging, and orchestration of docker applications running on Kubernetes
  • Design and implement zero-downtime to accomplish running high-available clusters supporting highly-available services
  • Design and implement disaster recovery (DR) between different regional data-centers
  • Follow community trends and changes in the landscape or the technologies used, advocating for and implementing work to stay modern and using the best options available
  • Define and evolve DevOps best practice by working within teams and educating the other stakeholder teams. These best practices should support traceability & auditability of change
  • Drive cross-functional co-located teams in design, development and implementation of enterprise scalable features related to enabling higher developer productivity, environment monitoring and self-healing, and facilitate autonomous delivery teams
  • Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations and features in business terms
  • Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

What we need from you:
  • Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 3-5 years of experience working in a similar engineering role
  • Technical hands-on background in Linux operating systems, cloud native technologies, and distributed streaming platforms a must
  • Strong knowledge of components of Kubernetes architecture. Certification as Certified Kubernetes Administrator a plus but not required
  • Strong knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g. Docker)
  • Strong knowledge of best-practices for enabling development, deployment, monitoring, and high-availability of containerized cloud-native applications
  • Awareness of general technologies used within CNCF landscape
  • Strong understand of Kubernetes networking (Calico, Weave)
  • Knowledge of kubectl, community projects such as helm, istio, linkerd, prometheus, NGINX ingress-controller, and similar software and utilities used to manage deployments
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including executives and non-technical leaders
  • Understanding of agile practices and ability to enforce them in variable team size settings
  • Highly self-motivated with strong analytical problem-solving skills
  • Curiosity and eagerness to learn and improve on existing approaches

Does our Engineering DNA Match yours?
  • We collaborate in small, agile teams to learn and develop innovative technology
  • We like to develop impactful features fast so we can share directly with our end-users and iterate quickly
  • We’re focused on well-defined software delivery and continuous learning
  • People are everything and our support for each other is abundant
  • Through open source technology, we continue to evolve our tech stacks while looking for ways to contribute back to the community
  • Whether you’re new to our tech stack or an expert, we encourage each team member to experiment with new technologies and take ownership of projects.
  • We love to have fun and dedicate time to exploring new technologies and ideas through Tech Days and Hackathons.

  • ID: #43014803
  • State: Illinois Chicago 60290 Chicago USA
  • City: Chicago
  • Salary: $140,000 - $170,000
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-06-15
  • Deadline: 2022-08-07
  • Category: Et cetera