Senior Linux Infrastructure & Azure DevOps Engineer (Pleasanton, CA)

Dexian has been engaged to find a resourceful  Senior Infrastructure and Azure DevOps Engineer who can demonstrate his/her understanding of the workings of an enterprise environment to join the Infrastructure Team of a dynamic Healthcare organization’s IT Group for a multi-year opportunity.

Candidates who not currently in the Bay Area will be required to relocate prior to commencement as this is a hybrid position that requires the team to work onsite two days a week in Pleasanton, California.

Description:
The Sr. Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer’s primary function will be to advance the infrastructure team from a traditional infrastructure methodology to an infrastructure as code approach. This key resource will be responsible for maintaining and expanding all aspects of RHEL servers, and secondarily for the orchestration platform for containers using Kubernetes.  Must exhibit a solid understanding of how application pipelines, and on occasion help troubleshoot and integrate CI/CD with Kubernetes, providing an automated build and configuration process for BareMetal that is hardware agnostic and helping lead the infrastructure and applications teams through the DevOps journey.  The role also requires on-call rotation when necessary.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Build out additional automation which includes the Windows/Linux OS platforms, Storage platforms and DB platforms.
• Roadmap, architect, and collaborate with development teams to transition and enhance their existing CI/CD pipeline.
• Assist with the design and building of reliable, fault tolerant private cloud infrastructure following industry best practices.
• Leverage cloud technologies and best practices on-premise and in Azure.
• Thought leader across multiple teams and technologies to drive change into teams to move towards and infrastructure as code approach.
• Using automation to reduce operational workload to support teams.
• Automated infrastructure configuration management using Ansible or similar tools
• Incorporate security best practices within the CI/CD pipeline using process or tools.
• Identify performance related issues on the platform and identify possible causes.
• Operational support of core infrastructure services which includes the ability to transition to traditional infrastructure, server, storage, network.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years of experience working in a lead role in a large, containerized environment using Kubernetes as the main platform for container orchestration.
• Minimum of four years of experience working on Linux as a power user or administrator, specifically RedHat or equivalent distro.
• Minimum of three of year of experience working with Windows Servers either from an application support role or administration.
• Minimum of two years of experience with container workloads deployed on Kubernetes either on-prem or public cloud.  This requires fundamental knowledge of image management, functioning of Kubernetes, and registry operations related to Kubernetes.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Social Science, Education, Business, Health Care or related field.
• Minimum of eight years working in IT or Operations. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:
Three years of experience writing documentation or standard operating procedures related to system administration.

• Three years of experience with cloud native apps such as Grafana, Prometheus, MongoDB, Postgres.
• Two years of experience with Ansible, automating infrastructure components, i.e., server, VM and network
• Two years of experience managing ingress in Kubernetes using NGINX, Istio, and network policies with Calico.
• Two years of experience building and maintaining Docker images.
• One year working with ServiceNow for managing incidents and service requests.