"DevOps Engineer"

Job Description:

Ciscos Enterprise DevOps as a Service (EDaaS) team is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help with identification and resolution of operational performance while applying security best practices across our portfolio of DevOps tools. EDaaS is a fast-paced group working to modernize and evolve development workflows in Cisco IT & Engineering with modern cloud-native tools and processes. The ideal candidate is self-motivated to gather manage and analyze large amounts of data to drive insights and decision-making. You are excited to be a part of an innovative and continually learning development and operations team.

Responsibilities of This Role

• Developing object-oriented Python code to process large sets of REST API data
• Assist in automating infrastructure provisioning via configuration management tools
• Enhance monitoring and log analysis systems
• Assist with development of automation via configuration management tools and scripts
• Managing Kubernetes clusters

Required Skills and Experience

• 3 years of recent Linux/Unix administration with emphasis on RedHat
• 3 years of scripting experience (Python Bash etc)
• Experience administering a combination of the following categories of DevOps tools:
  • Source code management tools (GitHub Enterprise Bitbucket GitLab)
  • Build automation tools (Jenkins CircleCI Travis CI)
  • Artifact management tools (Artifactory GitLFS Maven)
• Experience working with REST APIs
• Experience working with cloud platforms and Kubernetes technologies.
• Experience with Configuration Management platforms tools and processes (Puppet Ansible Chef Salt)
• Basic understanding of computer networking (OSI layers DNS etc)
• Experience generally with troubleshooting in a diverse technical environment
• Well-versed with Git and various workflows (forking gitflow etc.)
• General knowledge of reverse proxy systems (Nginx HAProxy Apache etc)

Desired Skills and Experience

• Preference will be given to candidates with experience performing administration and monitoring at an enterprise level for the following applications: GitHub Enterprise Jenkins and Artifactory
• Experience in applying security best practices to Linux environments
• Experience applying monitoring technologies to application systems (Nagios AppDynamics etc)
• Production experience creating and using Docker images / containers
• Experience with AWS including EC2 RDS ELB and EKS technologies
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum methodologies