Contract Senior DevOps Engineer
The Infrastructure Engineering team at Sirona is a dynamic, cross-functional group tasked with building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers all of our products. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping Sirona's ability to achieve both business and technical objectives by utilizing cloud technologies to create a modern, scalable Radiology IT stack. This hybrid role requires you to work from our San Francisco office a few days each quarter.
We are seeking a seasoned engineer who understands that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is not just an advantage but a fundamental expectation. You should possess deep expertise in Kubernetes, with experience using widely adopted controllers such as Cert-Manager and Sealed Secrets. Additionally, you should have a strong understanding of Kubernetes networking, including how it operates at the host level.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
- Contribute to the direction, implementation, and enforcement of cloud governance practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, effectively engaging with colleagues working across various areas of the stack.
- Architect, design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, highly available, and reliable workloads.
- Develop and enhance GitOps/IaC tools with a focus on improving the developer experience.
- Take primary responsibility for VPN infrastructure, including deployment, troubleshooting, and resolving connectivity or performance issues.
- Manage and support a traditional Linux environment using configuration management tools for system and application deployments.
Key Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
- A willingness to deeply understand all aspects of the stack.
- Strong expertise in DevOps, with the ability to investigate and optimize any part of the stack.
- A focus on simplicity and scalability, coupled with a collaborative, agile mindset and eagerness to learn.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines, load balancing, databases, and networking.
- Proficiency in microservices and serverless frameworks such as AWS Lambda or similar technologies.
- Expertise in modern DevOps tools (e.g., Terraform, CDK, Salt, Ansible, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, FluxCD) and programming languages like Python, Go, TypeScript, and Bash.
- Solid Linux administration experience, particularly in bare-metal environments.
- Strong Kubernetes administration skills, including managing multi-tenant clusters from deployment to supporting diverse application architectures.
This is a full-time contract position paying $4,200 per week.
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