Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with development teams to deploy software changes. Strong knowledge of AWS and automation tools required.
ProDev is looking for US-based Sr. DevOps Engineers!
This role will be focused on helping our clients to design, implement, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure. Additionally this role will work with development teams to build, test and deploy changes to new and existing software platforms . The ideal candidate for this position will possess knowledge and experience in architecting, engineering, and deploying application solutions with an emphasis on AWS.
About you- Enjoy working remotely.
- Happy working as a freelance contractor.
- Ability to work on your own with minimal supervision.
- Authorized to work in the United States.
- Strong communicator - being 100% remote, excellent communication is critical for what we do.
- Ability to decompose complex processes into understandable components.
- Proficiency in automating and optimizing processes.
- You love to ship - you're focused on delivering value and you are biased towards action.
- Experience delivering Infrastructure as Code and automation/orchestration of OS and applications.
- Automation experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Resource Manager, Ansible, Puppet, Chef or similar.
- Must be able to write Terraform modules and plans independently.
- Well versed in architecting solutions for single and multi-account AWS organizations.
- Familiarity with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, etc.)
- Experience with basic networking principles and technologies.
- Experience with configuration management. Specifically Ansible, but other tools such as Puppet and Chef are also applicable.
- Strong troubleshooting skills - you're comfortable diving into the logs to debug and resolve issues, especially across services.
- Experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with integrating infrastructure as a result of acquisitions and mergers.
- Azure and/or GCP experience
ProDev partners with incredible freelance developers from across North America to build products that delight. Our clients look to us to provide exceptionally talented consultants who can help them accelerate their delivery. Our team has been specializing in remote-based software consulting for over 12 years. Our goal is to build an exceptionally talented group of technologists who enjoy shipping high-quality code, working together, and are committed to continuous learning.
Please note: for this role we can not work with C2C companies
Top Skills
Ansible
AWS
Azure
Chef
CloudFormation
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Puppet
Resource Manager
Terraform
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