What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff DevOps Platform Engineer position at Mason Harding?
Mason Harding have partnered with a global leading life science organization to recruit a newly created Staff level DevOps Platform Engineer to join a growing team of DevOps professionals, working 3-4 days hybrid at their San Jose site!
You'll have the opportunity to create software applications that are used to help all people live healthy lives; powering groundbreaking biomedical instruments and applications. The Staff DevOps Platform Engineer plays a key role in understanding the developers' challenges and defining innovative solutions to solve them, utilizing solid domain expertise as a seasoned Kubernetes & Azure Administrator (ideally holding a Kubernetes Certified Administrator/KCA cert)
As Staff DevOps Platform Engineer, you will: -
- Together with a team of engineers, design, architect and deliver the next-generation internal developer platform.
- Work with peer technical leaders and their teams to enable engineers to seamlessly deploy their software components using GitOps.
- Focus on continuously improving the DevOps tooling, software installers, and software delivery processes.
- Own and maintain highly reliable environments and toolchains with clear communication and timeliness of any disruptions to internal stakeholders.
- Leverage industry-standard techniques and processes to help enable and provide better feedback to the developers.
- Monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environments infrastructure.
- Investigate and fix stability, performance and scalability bottlenecks.
Essential Requirements: -
- Undergraduate degree in computer science, IT, software engineering, or similar
- Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in Software Engineering roles as DevOps Platform engineer - Kubernetes CRDs experience and Kubernetes Certified Administrator (KCA) highly desired.
- Expert in maintaining and managing software build infrastructure. (Azure DevOps preferable, Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamForge, etc.)
- Expert in container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Expert in IaC technologies such as Helm, Packer, and Terraform.
- Expert experience creating, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
- Expert experience in version control and source control management (Git)
- Expert in deploying, managing, and maintaining at least 2 of the following SCM toolchain such as Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Nexus, TFS, Azure DevOps.
- Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell, and others are nice to have.
- Experience with system management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or Chef.
- Knowledge of test-driven development, software configuration management, and automated testing.
- Experience in creating VM templates and deploying them at scale and tracking revisions.
Our client offer clear routes for career development which will be outlined from day one, and not to mention comprehensive benefits, competitive salary and bonus, and a chance to truly impact human health through the power of software.
Get in touch with your updated resume to apply!
** N.B -We are unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship for this role.
Salary : $170,000 - $185,000
