DevOps Engineer

The Difference You Will Make

As a DevOps Engineer supporting Cloud Infrastructure, you will help improve and maintain foundational infrastructure components used across the organization, including:

• Compute platforms
• Cloud services
• Service mesh technologies
• Cloud provisioning platforms
• Networking infrastructure

You will contribute to improving reliability, scalability, efficiency, availability, and operational effectiveness while partnering with engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Cloud Infrastructure customers and stakeholders to resolve production issues and operational challenges.
• Triage, investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical problems.
• Collaborate with Cloud Infrastructure engineers to diagnose root causes and implement solutions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce operational toil through automation and process improvements.
• Develop scripts and tooling to increase operational efficiency and reliability.
• Maintain and improve documentation to support self-service and operational excellence.
• Monitor trends and recurring issues to identify areas for infrastructure enhancement and investment.
• Support and improve cloud-native platform services and infrastructure components.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with public cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure services such as:
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon EKS
• Other Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings
• Strong Kubernetes administration and support experience.
• Proven experience troubleshooting and debugging production systems.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work across multiple technologies and platforms to resolve technical issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing automation and scripting solutions using:
• Python (high priority)
• Golang
• Bash
• Ruby
• Passion for operational excellence, system reliability, quality, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:
• Istio
• Envoy
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as:
• Buildkite
• Spinnaker
• Experience integrating with:
• Slack
• Jira
• Asana
• Knowledge of:
• Layer 3 Networking
• Edge Networking
• CDN technologies
• DNS services

Vailexa Technology is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.