Job Title: Devops Engineer Duration: 12 Months Payrate: 90$/hr on w2 WORK LOCATION: We offer only a hybrid work model, 4 days in the office, and 1 day remote, Friday. Job will be located at the new Milpitas location. Address is: 155 N McCarthy Blvd, Milpitas, CA. LOCALS ONLY or unpaid relocation, NO 100% remote 2 rounds of interviews. - 1st virtual interview 45 minutes. Cameras must be on. - 2nd in-person interview 1.5 - 4 hours. (Milpitas, CA office) We are looking for candidates with deep fundamental knowledge of containerization, CI/CD pipeline designs, and integration of Azure DevOps Services with hybrid infrastructure. Must have strong and current hands-on experience in Docker, Kubernetes, desirable strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps services/server, portal. Do you want to join a DevOps team that is transforming the way software engineering is done? Do you have experience in delivering high-quality code and deploying it seamlessly? Do you want to learn and apply the latest technologies in platform engineering? If you answered yes to these questions, then you are the associate we are looking for. You are not just a hard worker; you are a smart worker. You are always looking for ways to improve your skills and processes. You can inspire and influence others with your empathy, passion, and expertise. As Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you will: • Work very closely and integrate with our developers to adopt and drive culture change. • Together with a team of engineers, design, architect and deliver the next-generation internal developer platform. • Work with peer technical leaders and their teams to enable engineers to seamlessly deploy their software components using GitOps. • Focus on continuously improving the DevOps tooling, software installers, and software delivery processes. • Own and maintain highly reliable environments and toolchains with clear communication and timeliness of any disruptions to internal stakeholders. • Leverage industry-standard techniques and processes to help enable and provide better feedback to the developers. • Monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environment infrastructure. • Investigate and fix stability, performance, and scalability bottlenecks. Education: • Undergraduate degree in computer science, IT, software engineering, or similar Essential Requirements • Strong communication skills (verbal and written). • Minimum of 7 years of experience in Software Engineering roles as a DevOps Platform engineer. • Expert in maintaining and managing software build infrastructure. (Azure DevOps(preferable), Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamForge, etc.) • Expert in container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Certification is a BIG plus!!! • Expert in IaC technologies such as Helm, Packer, and Terraform. • Expert experience creating, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. • Expert experience in version control and source control management (Git) • Expert in deploying, managing, and maintaining at least 2 of the following SCM toolchain such as Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Nexus, TFS, Azure DevOps • Strong understanding of programming principles, structure, and Versioning. • Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell, and others are nice to have. • Experience with system management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or Chef. • Experience and knowledge of Microsoft and/or Linux system administration and networking. • Experience in managing a VMware-based virtualization environment or similar. • Knowledge of test-driven development, software configuration management, and automated testing. Highly Desirable Requirements • Experience operating in a highly regulated industry. • Experience in managing CI/CD pipelines for a mixed set of software assets. • Experience with Crossplane, Kubernetes CRDs • Experience in creating VM templates and deploying them at scale and tracking revisions