CentoTech Services - System Engineer - Docker/Kubernetes (10-15 yrs)

Experience level : 10 years.

An upper level individual contributor in a systems engineering role. BS in CS or related discipline preferred.

Responsibilities :

- Develop and maintain a world class Systems Engineering tooling infrastructure.

- Plan updates, and configuration improvements, work with vendors improve and advance the capability of the services.

- Develop future roadmaps.

- Respond to 3rd Tier operational and security vulnerability issues and incidents as they arise.

- Design, code and execute both internal and stakeholder projects, continuously improving systems and operations 'ilities' (i.e. reliability, maintainability, etc).

- Document systems and services, develop runbooks and train others in maintaining and developing systems through code.

Requirements :

- An expert in infrastructure provisioning and management.

- Design, implement and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure using containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, (GKE, AWS EKS).

- An expert in one or more of Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Chef, Puppet : these tools should be core to your current workflow.

- Experienced in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and maintaining the tooling applications.

- A broad capability in managing and supporting Linux and Windows Operating systems and their infrastructure.

- Experienced in one or more of following computing environments : AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure.

- Proficient in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to : Python, JavaScript, Ruby, or Go.

- You participate in technical communities such as contributing to Open Source, speaking, blogging or have impact by coordinating groups of technical individuals.

Core Competencies :

- Own the deployment and configuration management pipeline for both public cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP or Azure) and private cloud (VMware).

- Establish trust and strong relationships with senior leaders, application and operation managers, and professional staff across other teams as it pertains to infrastructure needs.

- Experience with and inclination for operating and executing as part of a distributed team using asynchronous workflows and communications.

- Act as a Subject Matter Expert on all things infrastructure and automation for the larger organization.

- Create accurate and clear technical documentation; develop support processes and procedures; operational training and support ownership hand-off to peers/organizational units.

- Demonstrable experience designing complex technology stacks.

- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.

- Demonstrate both tactical and strategic technical plan development, project management skills and delegation capabilities.

- Strong team player.

- Willingness to take responsibility, accountability and ownership.

- Participate in compensated on-call rotation for critical services