Apptad Kubernetes DevOps Engineer L4

Role: Kubernetes DevOps Engineer L4

Location: Jersey City NJ

Job Description and key Responsibilities

• Developing Testing Debugging and Troubleshooting of Containerized Infrastructure.

• Ensure solutions are well-engineered maintainable and delivered on schedule.

• Work with business and engineering partners to deploy new infrastructure for private and public cloud platform.

• Monitor the availability latency and overall system health. On-call incident and change management

• Willingness to enhance the team learning environment by providing and encouraging mentorship and technical leadership.

• Manage Cloud and containerized environment setup and deployment in AWS & Azure and On Prem environments.

• Ensure security of application and development processes

• Mature Configuration Management processes

• Establish an automated DevOps release management pipeline which delivers tooling for next generation application development efforts and on-going production operations.

• Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mindset.

• Troubleshoot code build and deployments product releases and integration issues with the CI/CD workflow.

• Manage deployment and licensing of all Kubernetes/Container platforms software and hardware.

• Cloud virtualized and physical machine/system creation configuration management for both application and internal usage.

• Work with all the stake holders to on application migration from on-prem to cloud. Provide recommendations to app teams to design cloud architecture.

• Use appropriate tools to automate deployment and orchestrate governance and security of Infrastructure as code and infrastructure in general.

• Compose and leverage Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and terraform templates for the repeatable deployment of infrastructure.

• Review Cloud Architecture diagrams and deploy the solutions accordingly.

• Design Well architected solutions in AWS/Azure.

• Engineer cloud operational standards for new approved services and review/update existing ones.

• Work with DevOps team to build Ci/CD pipelines for infrastructure and app teams.

• Design Review Build and deploy and Manage Kubernetes Clusters in Multi Cloud Environment.

• Managing IAM permissions the in the cloud and ensuring that the right users have access to the right services with the least privileges.

• Work with vendors to bring new tools/ services to Jefferies.

• Setting naming/ working and operational standards for new services

• Follow change control procedures and policies.

• Create Documentation and provide reports to management. Be on call and Fulfill On-Call Support duties once a month.

Skills Qualifications and Experience Requirements

Must have 8 Years experience in a Multi Cloud and preferrable Hybrid Cloud environment.

• 8 years deploying distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes EKS GKE). Experience with Rafay is highly desirable for multi cloud orchestration.

• 5 years development experience in config management (Puppet Chef Ansible Terraform)

• 5 Years using gitops to deploy applications to Kubernetes.

• 7 years working within and building on AWS (IAM Orgs API Gateway Lambda KMS)

• 7 years Linux system engineering experience

• 5 years developing or infrastructure and application security for Highly Sensitive Customer Data & Environments (IAM CI/CD PKI)

• 5 years experience deploying with a CI orchestration service (GitLab/GitHub Bitbucket Bamboo Jfrog Xray antifactory ECR)

• 7 years working experience scripting/programming language (Bash Shell Python JavaScript)

• Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols and components as implemented in IAAS (VPC TGW route tables security groups etc.)

• Experience with Log Management and Analytics tools such as Splunk fluentbit etc.

• Excellent experience with observability tools like Prometheus Grafana Otel AppDynamics etc.

• Excellent experience in securing Kubernetes environment using service mesh secrets vaulting service discovery certificate and AppSSO management

• Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerization - Docker Amazon EKS Lambda EC2 S3 Azure blob Azure VM service fabric Azure AKS)

• Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS/Azure Infrastructure environments as code.

• Experience with core AWS/Azure platform architecture including areas such as: Organizations Account Design VPC Subnet segmentation strategies. subscriptions VNet resource groups. Security groups DNS and routing. etc.

• Data Protection Persistent Storage Backup HA and Disaster Recovery approach and design.

• Network connectivity Direct Connect Express Route and VPN

• Good understanding of Compute Databases Analytics and security services and best practices in AWS and Azure.

• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives IT Management and developers.

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

• A continuous learner and a critical thinker.

• A team player with great communication skills both verbal and written.

Nice To have Skills.

• DEVOPS certification highly desirable.

• AWS/Azure/Kubernetes Certification Preferred.

• Rafay Certification Highly desirable.

• Knowledge of Internal Developer Portal is highly desirable preferably TAP.

• VMWare and Nutanix Hypervisors - Desired

• Block storage (PURE) Netapp FSX experience is a plus.

• Compute (UCS & Synergy) is a plus.

• Knowledge on VMC and Nutanix on AWS is desired.

Critical Beyond the Technical Skills Required:

• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical and non-technical concepts to peers customers and management.

• Must be capable of routinely making effective and timely decisions in alignment with departmental direction and based on sound business knowledge and industry best practices.

• Possess excellent technical problem solving and customer service skills.

• Ability to cope well under pressure.

• Initiative drive and ability to work effectively as part of a local team as well as a global team.

• Must work well without direct supervision and as part of global teams.