Non-Employee DevOps Engineer

Alpha Consulting Corp. is a consulting firm seeking a Non-Employee DevOps Engineer. The role involves leading engineering deliverables, guiding junior engineers, and managing risks and customer-impacting issues in the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for incident resolution and Pager Support on a rotation basis
• Achieves product commitments by using informal leadership and highly developed communication skills and contributes to or leads technology communities
• Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability, and 'security first' principles in daily work
• Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, and helps new engineers learn established norms
• Responsible for pager support once every quarter
• Initiates high-level solution design approaches and guides the team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability
• Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events
• Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in developing new capabilities
• Continues professional education and creates opportunities for core product teams to learn engineering best practices
• Coaches immediate chapter and actively fosters the adoption of new technologies

Requirements:

• Experience with Kubernetes - OpenShift(OCP) at a platform level
• Experience with any one OpenShift / K8s supported Networking CNI (Plus if you know Calico)
• Experience with AWS infrastructure (VPC / Security groups / EC2 / Storages / Load Balancers)
• Experience doing OCP upgrades and creating OCP Clusters
• Experience with platform automation products like RH ACM / Terraform / Ansible
• Responsible for incident resolution and Pager Support on a rotation basis
• Achieves product commitments by using informal leadership and highly developed communication skills and contributes to or leads technology communities
• Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability, and 'security first' principles in daily work
• Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, and helps new engineers learn established norms
• Responsible for pager support once every quarter
• Initiates high-level solution design approaches and guides the team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability
• Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events
• Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in developing new capabilities
• Continues professional education and creates opportunities for core product teams to learn engineering best practices
• Coaches immediate chapter and actively fosters the adoption of new technologies
• Kubernetes certification like CKA or CKAD and AWS certification
• Application programming skills in Golang, Java, etc
• Understanding of k8s operator model
• Scripting languages like shell / Helm modules or some programming experience
• Diagramming skills such as sequence diagrams, flowcharts, etc
• Concepts of secrets/credential management for applications and systems, such as the use of HashiCorp Vault
• Operators in Kubernetes/OCP