Senior DevOps Engineer

Veriforce is a SaaS technology and services company focused on supply chain risk management, safety, sustainability, and collaboration. The Senior DevOps Engineer will operate SaaS infrastructure by creating CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, and an internal Kubernetes-based developer platform while improving system reliability, performance, and customer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical thought leadership in collaboration with Architecture and Development
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code for both development and production environments
• Design, implement and maintain observability and monitoring solutions and monitor the system health, taking action to maintain up-time and performance SLAs
• Design, implement, and maintain continuous delivery systems and advise development teams on code and implementation to increase application resiliency, operability, and best practices
• Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes clusters with advanced configuration and features
• Design, implement, and maintain Kafka clusters with advanced configuration and features
• Identify points of failure and recommend solutions

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in Dev Ops in a SaaS environment
• Expertise in distributed systems including load balancing, distributed messaging, and distributed databases
• Expertise in software configuration management (SCM) and tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar
• Expertise in cloud platforms, primarily AWS
• Expertise in automated deployment methodologies that support CICD
• Experience configuring and administering Kubernetes clusters using advanced features including VPA/HPA and KEDA, Karpenter, service mesh, and multiple node groups
• Experience configuring and administering Kafka clusters including disaster recovery mechanisms, data loss prevention techniques, and determining topic configuration to right size for demanding and variable loads
• Experience with Windows and Linux systems and tools
• Prior professional application development experience with a particular focus on SaaS applications and web development
• Knowledge of IP networking, including TCP, UDP, firewalls, and TLS
• Knowledge of software engineering and design principles such as design patterns, architectural patterns, CAP Theorem, event driven architecture, and similar
• Must be security-minded at all levels
• Jenkins or GitHub Actions preferred
• Experience with NGINX, Redis, and API gateways
• Experience with NoSQL and/or "Big Data" technologies
• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Experience with C# and .NETCore