Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer
Burbank, CA
Long Term
No C2C
Must have:
- Terraform, AWS ECS, (Okay to have AWS EC2 but not needed).
- Python or Perl or Ruby.
- Docker or Kubernetes
- Customer facing skills, able to lead meetings, openly communicate ideas and solutions and white board and do PowerPoint presentations.
DevOps Cloud Practice Engineer
This position is a leadership position in the organization that is responsible for architecture, design, application support and programming. The Senior Practice Engineer provides consulting and delivery assurance of services for clients through a range of internal and external functions in the following areas: Consulting, Account Interaction, Service Delivery and Practice Delivery responsibilities. Practice Engineer is expected to have the experience and background to perform all the duties described below for engagements that are focused on consulting/delivery management within the defined subject matter area, including deliverables development, project planning and executions, adherence to contract attributes and costing, customer interaction, and other key aspects of solution-based managed services.
Solution Delivery
- Gain a clear understanding of customers' business requirements and their technical requirements based upon the developed solution and agreed statement of work (SOW).
- Understand, develop, and mature the solution design by collaborating with customers and stakeholders to manage their expectations and resolve project, stakeholder, and delivery issues in a timely manner.
- Daily time distribution: 30% for Architecture Design / Review, 30 % on call support for various application, 40% programming for automation.
- Facilitate internal communication and coordinate the assembly of a delivery team for new engagements to include practice support, delivery (regional and/or practice), and account team members.
- Ensure delivery escalation procedures are addressed and communicated to client, consultants, and managers.
Practice & Product Line Management
- Perform periodic project/program analysis, product line review, and product line "health checks" with practice and delivery resources.
- Examine customer reference-ability and establish on-going relationships with the customer and account team members.
- Support the development and execution of an Account Strategy in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate subject matter material with team members for development of best practices for product lines and delivery improvements.
Technical Responsibilities / Core Technical Stack
- Terraform
- ECS
- Cloud formation (Moving to Terraform).
- Chef (currently heavily used), but eventually moved to Terraform.
- Programming Languages: python, ruby, golang. Should have cross functional programming experience. currently their expectation is support existing scripts in chef, python, but they really looking more automation to build test suite in different languages. Most of the applications are built in Java with Tomcat server. Java knowledge is helpful.
- Networking skills: Trouble shooting skills to identify network issues.
- Databases: MongoDB, AWS Dynamo DB, MySQL.
Required Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, relevant experience.
- 5+ years' experience in information technology and/or professional services, with emphasis on subject matter expertise.
- Experience in delivering projects/programs, delivering and administrating client professional services agreements including the change management process.
- Frequent interactions with external customers at the Director level or above; established consulting and interpersonal skills with 5+ years' experience.