Software Engineer Consultant

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following locations: California, Arizona, North Carolina, and Texas.

This position works on Gitlab pipelines to drive all Microservices. Builds out to the Docker registry and then deploys to openshift. Creates pods and manages using Kubernetes. Develops, tests, debugs, and troubleshoots containerized applications on Openshift platform. Designs, develops and maintains custom helm charts to deploy applications, certificates, and configurations. Crafts Network policies to allow internamespace communications. Create scripts and utilities to automate data analysis and deployments. Designs and implements automation tools and frameworks for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. Monitors the availability, latency, and overall system health. Supports on-call incident, change management and root cause analysis. Sets up continuous integration processes with build, release, and test. Utilizes tools like GitLab, Jenkins to perform and implement continuous integration processes. Works on Ansible and Ansible Tower to automate repetitive tasks, to deploy critical applications quickly, and proactively manage the changes and write playbooks in YAML language to manage Web Applications and services. Creates repositories, branches, tags in Gitlab and assists developers to fix code merge issues and to implement parallel development process. Collaborates with development and operations teams to identify and address bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle. Knowledge and experience with code quality and setting up quality gates using sonarqube to enforce high coding quality and maintainability. Troubleshoots and resolves issues related to application development, deployment, and operations and utilizes tools like Appdynamics, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk for metrics collection, visualization and alerting. Performs routine application maintenance to ensure the production environment runs smoothly. Develops maintenance requirements and procedures. Plans team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities. Supports Elastic Search, Kibana and Redis cluster changes and monitoring. Integrates application configuration with privileged access management tools like Cyberark. This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following locations: California, Arizona, North Carolina, Texas.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Communication Engineering, Information Technology Management, or related field plus five (5) years of experience in the job offered or five (5) years of experience as a Software Developer, or related occupation.

Requires extensive experience designing and maintaining enterprise-grade pipelines using GitLab/Jenkins, with advanced scripting in Bash and Python for complex deployment workflows, system administration, and large-scale infrastructure automation. Requires experience with SonarQube integration for code quality and security compliance. Requires advanced proficiency with Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, and OpenShift to deploy and scale containerized applications across distributed environments. Requires deep expertise with Helm for templated, repeatable deployments across dev, staging, and production. Requires substantial experience with Ansible for enterprise infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, and YAML for defining CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and Ansible playbooks across complex multi-environment systems. Requires expertise with Elasticsearch/Kibana for enterprise-scale log aggregation and monitoring dashboards, and Redis for in-memory caching and session management to optimize high-throughput application performance. Requires deep proficiency with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Zabbix, and Grafana for enterprise performance monitoring and alerting. Requires advanced knowledge of SSL/TLS, Keyfactor for certificate lifecycle management, and CyberArk for privileged access control. Requires extensive experience with TCP/IP, firewall configurations, Akamai CDN, and Microservices Architecture to ensure secure, reliable, and highly scalable application delivery across complex distributed systems. Requires advanced Linux proficiency for server configuration, troubleshooting, and containerized workloads, combined with proven expertise in production incident resolution and root cause analysis in high-availability environments. This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following locations: California, Arizona, North Carolina, Texas.

The base pay for this position is generally between $194,275.00 to $222,583 per year. Actual starting base pay will be determined based on skills, experience, location, and other non-discriminatory factors permitted by law. For some roles, total compensation may also include variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards as outlined in the offer of employment.

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This job posting is expected to remain active for 31 days from the initial posting date listed above. If it is necessary to extend this deadline, the posting will remain active as appropriate. Job postings may come down early due to business need or a high volume of applicants. #EJC #LI-DNI