Sr. DevOps Engineers

Company Description

nClouds is a certified, award-winning provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services. - AWS Premier Consulting Partner. - We are an integrated team of skilled engineers, architects, developers, project managers, and sales & marketing professionals who are passionate about software excellence, innovation, and client success. We work with organizations of all sizes, in all industries, including some of the coolest startups and growth companies in Silicon Valley.

**Job Description**:
You are an experienced DevOps engineer with 7+ years of experience, who is comfortable automating and maintaining cloud infrastructures. You have demonstrated exposure and proven expertise and success with a range of tools and services, superb troubleshooting skills, passion for automating everything, and a sense of ownership.

**This is a full time opportunity. No C2C and No Sponsorship. You should have valid work permits.**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work with a team of DevOps Engineers to Architect, Build, and Implement redundant, resilient, scalable, self-sustaining, and self-healing cloud infrastructures in AWS.
- Evangelize infra as code and automation as much as possible. Use extensive knowledge of the DevOps tool set to enable that achievement. Ex: Terraform, Cloudformation, CircleCI, Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Work independently on projects with clients and stakeholders, get their requirements and keep them posted with the new features and improvements
- Help with troubleshooting issues with Oncall engineers
- Develop and improve current operational practices and procedures
- Ensure the implementation and maintaining of compliance and security practices in operational infrastructure

**Secondary Responsibilities**:

- Additionally, you will be responsible for training and mentoring junior DevOps engineers and new team members
- Besides client related project work, you will be participating in internal demo/idea generation/blog posts in order to bring new initiatives and new tools to be implemented with our clients.

**Qualifications**:
**About You**:
You have experience of 7+ years in DevOps engineering, and worked with the following Tech skills for 5 years at a minimum:

- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with solution architecting environments in AWS cloud space.
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with code pipeline design, development, and managing CI/CD workflows and tools.
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile & Automation)
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, and firewall
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with designing a secure infrastructure using current cloud-native security standards
- Container orchestration knowledge is a must.
- Solutioning experience is required.
- 5+ years of use in Infrastructure as code (Terraform / Cloudformation/CDK)
- 5+ years of using container orchestration tools (Kubernetes/EKS or ECS, Rancher, etc.)
- 5+ years of using configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, Helm Charts, etc.)
- 5+ years of working in all things containers (Docker or Docker-Compose, etc.)
- 5+ years of using Scripting when necessary (Bash, Python, Ruby, Go or Javascript, etc.)
- 5+ years of using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, Gitlab, Concourse, or similar)

**Interpersonal Skills**:

- Sense of Leadership
- Always collaborating to Team Work efforts (Teamwork savvy)
- A love for Documentation
- Ability to scope out requirements for tasks
- Provide guidance and directions frequently for project/client work (mentoring superhero)
- Have Knowledge and experience with Agile practices
- Eager to learn and always get new certifications
- The ability to communicate with stakeholders from different backgrounds

**What to Expect**:
**First Week**
- Start with the onboarding process incorporating you into a DevOps Team.
- Set up all your accesses and security policies.
- Learn about nClouds practices, values, and solutions
- Complete onboarding process.

**First Month**
- Knowledge transfer sessions with team members.
- Start joining customer calls.
- Start working on customer's tasks
- Start to get involved in presenting in Friday demos
- Be fully ramped up and integrated into the team.
- Propose solutions that satisfy customers' needs.
- Targeting to complete nClouds' OKR and KPI
- Collaborate on internal nClouds projects (like nCode)

**First 3 Months**
- Develop and improve current operational practices and procedures
- Become a productive, collaborative, and consistent contributor to the team.
- Develop your skills by getting certifications.
- Participate proactively in internal nClouds activities.

**First Six Months**
- Provide guidance to new nClouds members.
- Being certificated in tools/technologies of your interest.
- Design infrastructures and solutions for incoming projects.
- Work Independently on the project assi