Position: DevOps Engineer Location: Remote – Chicago area Job Type: 6-Month W2 Contract Compensation: $50-$54/hr Description: The Infrastructure Engineer works on holistic engineering deliverables across different stages of the product lifecycle and determines technology patterns for the overall solution. This role takes the lead in guiding more junior engineers and is a role model in fostering the adoption of new technologies. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. Qualifications: • Experience with Kubernetes - OpenShift(OCP) at a platform level • Experience with any one OpenShift / K8s supported Networking CNI. (Plus if you know Calico ) • Experience with AWS infrastructure (VPC / Security groups / EC2 / Storages / Load Balancers) • Experience doing OCP upgrades and creating OCP Clusters • Experience of platform automation products like RH ACM / Terraform / Ansible • Responsible for incident resolution and Pager Support on a rotation basis. • Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities. • Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work • Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms • Responsible for pager support once every quarter. • Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability • Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events • Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in ways of developing new capabilities • Continues professional education and creates opportunities for core product teams to learn engineering best practices • Coaches immediate chapter and actively fosters the adoption of new technologies Preferred Qualifications Bonus Points If You Have: • Kubernetes certification like - CKA or CKAD and AWS certification. • Application programming skills in Golang, Java, etc. • Understanding of k8s operator model. • Scripting languages like shell / Helm modules or some programming experience. • Diagraming skills such as sequence diagrams, flowcharts, etc. • Concepts of secrets/credential management for Applications and systems - such as use of HashiCorp Vault • Operators in Kubernetes/OCP TECHNICAL SKILLS Must Have • Ansible • AWS • calico • CICD • Firewalls • Kubernetes • Kubernetes Openshift • Scripting