DevOps Consultant

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This role is for a DevOps Consultant with a 6-month contract, offering competitive pay. Key skills include 5+ years of experience, 2 years with Kubernetes, Azure/AWS expertise, Infrastructure as Code, and strong communication skills. Relevant certifications are preferred.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
💰 - Day rate
Unknown
Unknown
🗓️ - Date discovered
April 15, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
📄 - Contract type
Unknown
🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
📍 - Location detailed
Dallas, TX
🧠 - Skills detailed
#Containers #DevOps #Monitoring #Istio #Grafana #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Terraform #GitHub #Cloud #Observability #Cybersecurity #Security #Azure #Public Cloud #Microsoft Azure #Consul #Strategy #Linux #Scala #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Dynatrace #Argo #Prometheus #Kubernetes #Computer Science #GIT #Microservices
Role description

Job Description:

   • 5+ years is needed, and 2 years must be with Kubernetes hands on (they need people with lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters, creating, and maintaining them, not just managing them)

   • They are a platform team, so this needs to be very focused on Kubernetes.

   • DevOps are a highly sought after focus as well, but applicant should have experience supporting infrastructure / platforms / environments.

   • Team manages the shared Kubernetes platform that serves the application teams.

   • Their focus is on Azure and AKS (Azure Kubernetes services) will consider someone with AWS / EKS managed Kubernetes offering.

   • The main role is to support lifecycle and engineering new features in Kubernetes platform.

   • Infrastructure as Code, experience with tech stack beyond Kubernetes, git hub actions, Argo CD, SDO service mesh, observability tools like Grafana and Dynatrace and operating systems /Linux management.

   • They are focused on making sure someone has strong verbal and written communication skills, and all classic soft skills are there.

   • This list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced.

   • Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

   • Design, deploy, and manage Cloud Infrastructure solution.

   • Build scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions, such as Kubernetes Platform in Azure or other public cloud.

   • Collaborate with Cybersecurity, enterprise architects to define and Implement cloud solution best practices following Well-Architect Framework best practices for security, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

   • Ensure customer needs (product strategy objectives, user requirements, and technical environment compatibility) are met.

   • Communicate product strategy, roadmap, and change effectively to customers and stakeholders.

   • Drive innovation by automating infrastructure via your hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as code technologies.

   • Manage lifecycle of cloud solutions and platforms that keep the system stack up to date.

   • Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices.

   • Monitor cloud systems for availability, performance, and cost efficiency, optimizing usage and resources.

   • Diagnose and resolve issues in cloud environments, providing support for internal teams and stakeholders.

   • 24/7 on call rotation supporting business critical applications or systems.

   • Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate.

Minimum Qualifications:

   • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training

   • Five years of working experience as a technology professional.

   • Two years of platform operations experience, specifically supporting Kubernetes, microservices, and containerization.

   • Two years of experience implementing infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Preferred Qualifications:

   • Azure, AWS, or Kubernetes Technical Certifications

   • 2+ years working with Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), specifically administering and maintaining cluster lifecycle

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

   • Experience keeping production environments operating at peak performance on the cloud and in containers

   • Experience managing production Kubernetes infrastructure

   • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and configuration as code

   • Deep understanding of DevOps best practices and CI/CD, particularly utilizing Github Actions and ArgoCD

   • Experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio

   • Experience with using Rancher as a control plane

   • Experience with Observability technologies and optimizing monitoring using technologies such as Grafana, Dynatrace, and Prometheus

   • Deep knowledge of Linux OS, network, and Azure PaaS solutions