Contract DevOps Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
Remote (with quarterly visits to San Francisco office)
The Infrastructure Engineering team at Sirona is a dynamic, cross-functional group responsible for building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that powers all of our products. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping Sirona's cloud-based Radiology IT stack, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and high-performing.
This position requires strong expertise in Kubernetes and a deep understanding of networking fundamentals, as you will be responsible for both designing and managing multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters and ensuring seamless network connectivity across cloud and on-prem environments. A successful candidate will combine cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes proficiency with hands-on networking experience, including VPNs, routing, and security best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
- Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure with an emphasis on networking, including ingress, service meshes, load balancing, and DNS resolution.
- Manage Kubernetes networking at both cluster and host levels, ensuring secure and efficient communication between services.
- Take primary responsibility for VPN infrastructure, including deployment, troubleshooting, and resolving connectivity/performance issues.
- Contribute to cloud governance practices, ensuring compliance with best practices for security, cost efficiency, and scalability.
- Develop and enhance GitOps/IaC tooling to improve developer experience and automate infrastructure management.
- Manage and support a traditional Linux environment, leveraging configuration management tools for system and application deployments.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across infrastructure, security, and application development to deliver a reliable and well-integrated network architecture.
Key Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 8+ years of industry experience.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including managing multi-tenant clusters and utilizing controllers like Cert-Manager and Sealed Secrets.
- Strong networking experience, including VPNs, firewalls, service discovery, DNS, load balancing, and Kubernetes network policies.
- Hands-on experience with cloud networking components such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, peering, and traffic routing in major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Proficiency in DevOps tools (Terraform, CDK, Salt, Ansible, ArgoCD, FluxCD, etc.) and programming languages (Python, Go, TypeScript, Bash).
- Linux administration experience, particularly in bare-metal environments.
- Ability to investigate and optimize any part of the stack, from networking to compute and storage.
- Experience with microservices, service meshes, and serverless frameworks (AWS Lambda, Istio, Linkerd, etc.).
- A problem-solving mindset, strong collaboration skills, and eagerness to continuously learn and improve infrastructure.
This is a full-time contract position paying $4,200 per week.
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