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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, Contract

Remote, India

Overview of Role

66degrees seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for a 3-6 months remote contract opportunity with potential to extend to play a critical role to efficiently deliver and operate high quality, secure software at scale. As an individual contributor you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote DevOps principles and practices and implement world class self-service CI/CD tooling. You will provision, operate, and optimize cloud resources in Google Cloud Platform, and take a lead role in managing the health of applications and infrastructure supporting clients.

Please Note: ***Must be available to join in 30 days***

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with technology teams to design, build, document and support CI/CD automation leveraging Jenkins, Git-based version control systems (Bitbucket preferred), and other tools
  • Provision and manage cloud resources and Kubernetes configuration using Terraform, Google Cloud SDK, kubectl, Google Cloud Console and other tools
  • Automate repeatable processes with Jenkins, Linux shell scripts, Python and/or other tools 
  • Troubleshoot and resolve an array of issues in CI/CD, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and other technologies
  • Implement various automation to support development, operations, and security best practices, with a “shift left” mentality
  • Implement and maintain effective infrastructure and application monitoring and logging solutions to improve visibility, observability and incident detection, response, and prevention
  • Provide leadership in incident response activities to rapidly restore service
  • Create and maintain technical, procedural, and educational documentation related to client’s cloud ecosystem
  • Embrace a culture of enablement, customer service, continuous improvement, transparency, and fiscal responsibility
  • Perform other duties as directed

Qualifications

  • 5+ years designing, delivering, and operating scalable, available, high-performance applications and supporting infrastructure
  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field Google Professional Cloud Architect or similar certification desired
  • Advanced hands-on experience with continuous integration and delivery / deployment methodologies and technologies
  • Advanced experience with computer, networking, security, storage, monitoring, logging, serverless and other technologies in Google Cloud Platform or similar major cloud environment
  • Strong experience with containerization (e.g. Docker), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
  • Proficiency with Linux systems engineering and administration
  • Working knowledge of Helm and Service Mesh (e.g. Istio)
  • Proficient understanding of microservices principles and orchestration
  • Excellence in navigating and prioritizing multiple simultaneous responsibilities of varying scope and complexity
  • Ability to effectively articulate technical concepts to audiences at all organizational levels via oral, written, and other non-verbal communications
  • Demonstrated desire and ability to be self-directed, take ownership of issues, and establish a prominent level of credibility
  • Ability to work well independently and within dynamic, cross-functional teams
  • Excellent understanding of Internet concepts, technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS / SSL, etc.)
  • Experience with rapid detection and troubleshooting of technical issues using various monitoring and application performance management tools
  • Proficiency with shell scripting, Python and/or other scripting languages in a Linux environment
  • Ability to operate effectively under pressure, both independently and in collaboration with other resources
  • Ability to rapidly learn new technologies via mentoring, formal training, and independent research and testing
  • A genuine desire and willingness to share knowledge effectively with others
  • Familiarity with modern application languages and concepts, with hands-on e-commerce software development experience preferred

66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.

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