Senior Devops Engineer

Senior Devops Engineer


6 month+ (renewable) contract


Fort Lauderdale, FL

Its a W2 role, no C2C at this moment

Top Three Skills:


1. Chef Experience


- Certified or on path to certification preferred


- Must know how to use cookbooks for CI/CD (should be able to EXPLAIN THIS, write one from scratch, but doesn't need to be an expert- knows how to get information themselves)


- Must be able to create custom resource builds both light and heavy weight


- Must know wrapper cookbooks, library cookbooks, application cookbooks


- Must be able to utilize attributes


- Must know how to operate kitchen testing


- Manage environment versioning

2. Python Experience


- Boto: must be able to write lambda functions


Must be able to code libraries to support lambda


- Must be able to write scripts from scratch


- Must know hashe corp vault (Via API)


- Chef server via API


- AWS via API


- Elastic search via API


- Service now via API

3. AWS


- Must know credentialing


- Know Kitchen in AWS


- API


- Do not need to be an expert

Job Description:


Senior DevOps engineer to serve as the lead on the team. This person would act as a subject matter expert and not only work alongside the rest of the team but also be responsible for technical interviews, on-boarding, training new hires, and giving direction. Perfect for someone looking to get into management.

20% would be lead duties as mentioned above and 80% would be working on the top 3:


1. Chef Experience


- Certified or on path to certification preferred


- Must know how to use cookbooks for CI/CD (should be able to EXPLAIN THIS, write one from scratch, but doesn't need to be an expert- knows how to get information themselves)


- Must be able to create custom resource builds both light and heavy weight


- Must know wrapper cookbooks, library cookbooks, application cookbooks


- Must be able to utilize attributes


- Must know how to operate kitchen testing


- Manage environment versioning

2. Python Experience


- Boto: must be able to write lambda functions


Must be able to code libraries to support lambda


- Must be able to write scripts from scratch


- Must know hashe corp vault (Via API)


- Chef server via API


- AWS via API


- Elastic search via API


- Service now via API

3. AWS


- Must know credentialing


- Know Kitchen in AWS


- API


- Do not need to be an expert

Considers themselves a "Center of Excellence" and basically does everything and anything related to DevOps so no two days are the same. It is dynamic and ever changing.

You could be taking requirements for cookbooks/ code in python and they expect you to question the requirements and make suggestions based on best practices and ideas, estimate how long it will take and deliver on time, think like a developer and devops engineer. They expect someone to deliver on the minimum expectation and then build from there.

The environment is 80% Windows and 20% Linux so candidates must be comfortable with both. They don't have to be experts but know how to function in Windows and in Unix, how to install with Chef, how to CC directories, how to path, etc.