Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer
Location: Atlanta GA
Duration: / Term: 6 months
Experience Desired: 8 Years.
Job Description:
Lead Engineer DevOps We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes and a strong background in AWS EKS.
The ideal candidate will lead our DevOps initiatives support microservices orchestration automate CI/CD pipelines and optimize deployments for cloud-native telecom applications ( systems).
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design implementation and management of scalable highly available Kubernetes clusters (cloud).
- Define and enforce DevOps best practices tailored to telecom-grade network functions and platforms.
- Design and develop Kubernetes clusters specifically for AWS EKS.
- Build and maintain Kubernetes control plane components operators and custom resource definitions (CRDs) tailored to meet security standards. Automate provisioning configuration and monitoring of network functions (CNFs/VNFs) using Helm Terraform and Ansible.
- Collaborate with telecom solution architects and development teams to containerize and deploy telco workloads.
- Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab) for telecom microservices and network elements.
- Ensure high availability performance and security of telecom systems in a production-grade environment.
- Lead the incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related outages in telecom platforms.
- Mentor and guide DevOps team members; conduct technical reviews and promote continuous improvement.
Must-Have Qualifications:
- Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Engineering or related field.
- Strong experience as a Kubernetes developer with specific experience in CKA Level
- 8 years of experience in DevOps/SRE roles with 3 years in a leadership role.
- Proven expertise in CI/CD pipeline tools (Jenkins GitLab CI/CD).
- Hands-on with IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure)
- Expertise in Linux (RHCE level) shell scripting and networking concepts.
- Familiarity with Docker and tools Prometheus Grafana Istio Splunk.
- Proficiency in Go/Python
- Excellent problem-solving analytical and communication skills. Preferred Qualifications:
- Certification in Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD) and AWS (AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
Key Skills:
DevOps CKA Level AWS EKS Kubernetes Gitlab CI/CD Terraform Linux