Sr. DevOps Engineer

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

The DevOps Engineer will be a core member of our Managed Services technical team that’s responsible for supporting, designing and implementing Cloud & DevOps solutions for our customers. The incumbent will provide direct analysis and recommendations associated with the implementation or migration of specific applications to Cloud services while incorporating DevOps techniques.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing the architecture and operational support of cloud based environments;
• Develop active operational processes and procedures for clients
• Understand CI/CD pipelines and should have multi cloud exposure.
• Work with application owners/groups to ensure proper security standards are being followed for client projects and solutions
• Review operations and business requirements for projects pertaining to infrastructure with project teams, management, and client services groups for deployment and ongoing operations support
• Provide Technical Support to Clients and proactively suggest areas for improvement
• Continuous proof-of-concepts development and rapid prototypes alongside other engineers.
• Develop standards in partnership with Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Services, and Application Development teams
• Key Skills:
• Strong interpersonal skills are required. Ability to work effectively with team members, clients and other areas of the IT environment
• Strong written and oral communications
• Excellent problem solving abilities, strong decision making skills and make sound judgment decisions.
• Work effectively with team members, clients and other areas of IT
• Handle multiple tasks and be flexible in a fast paced environment
• Deliver on time
• Service Management:
• Analyze problems, evaluate technical issues, test, maintain, modify, integrate, monitor, and ensure to automate software systems.
• Exhibit passion for client experience with a user-first mindset
• Knowledge on DevOps principles
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in engineering, IT, data communications, Information Systems, computer science, or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications
• Experience with Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and On-Premises Environments
• Hands-on experience in Automation, Orchestration and CI/CD pipelines (SCM, Build, Deployment, Code Quality, APM, Monitoring and Reporting tools).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience (E.g. scripting Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Rundeck, Shell)
• Hands on experience in Ansible.
• Knowledge on git branching and merge strategies
• Advanced Experience with various Kubernetes platforms (Tanzu, AKS, EKS)
• Proven experience in designing and building large scale, high performing, secure Kubernetes, and other application platform infrastructure on Kubernetes platforms
• Experience in managing Kubernetes clusters, building docker images and Day 2 Operations
• Experience in Kubernetes networking, load balancer, pod security and certificate management
• Experience with monitoring tools such Datadog, Dynatrace AppDynamics, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent
  
  

Why AHEAD

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

USA Employment Benefits Include

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid company holidays
• Paid time off
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
  
  

The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.