Lead DevOps Engineer, Global

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. They are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to automate and standardize the installation, configuration, deployment, and operation of their technology platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Reduce the time it takes to provision infrastructure
• Create runbooks, scripts, and unit tests to reduce manual labor on repetitive tasks
• Work with the other IT teams to resolve how we can improve their existing workflows with the use of automation
• Work across the organization to advise and influence improved cloud adoption and governance
• Maintain, improve, and support the tools and platforms that are managed by the team
• Author and maintain puppet roles and profiles to automate the configuration of our Windows and Linux servers
• Influence reliable, efficient, scalable enterprise grade solutions across the organization
• Share your knowledge and expertise with peers by documenting your work and leading and organizing brown bag sessions
• Implement standard methodologies for systems automation and platform operations
• Ensure the availability and security of the tools and platforms supported by the team

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, software development, information technology or equivalent experience required
• 7 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps, Cloud, or Platform engineer role is required; 8 to 12 years preferred
• Strong, hands-on experience developing and administering tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform
• Consistent track record of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
• Intermediate to advanced understanding of programming and scripting languages Ruby, Java, Python, Bash, .NET, and Powershell; with advanced ability to author and automate code quality standards
• Ability to write idempotent declarative configuration management using Puppet, supported by a clear understanding of operating systems and applications present in the Vantage enterprise
• Advanced understanding of secure coding practices, compliance as code, software attestation and signing
• Advanced understanding of Terraform and ARM
• Ability to use Chocolatey to build custom NuGet packages
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of VMWare VCF 9 components, vCenter, vSphere, and ability to codify Content Library, Aria Automations, Tanzu, and NSX
• Advanced understanding of Azure networking, storage, compute, and serverless
• Advanced knowledge of ELK stack, Kubernetes, Openshift
• Intermediate knowledge of FluxCD, Helm
• Intermediate knowledge of policy as code such as checkov, open policy agent
• Advanced knowledge of cloud native design principles and best practices, and ability apply principles to hybrid cloud environment
• Experience working with ITIL practices
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance frameworks such as GDPR, PCI, SOX
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as a collaborative team member
• Travel required is expected to be less than 5%
• Data Center industry experience is strongly preferred, but not required