Title: Senior DevOps Platform Engineer Location: Milpitas, CA 95035 Duration: 6 to 12 months of contract to hire Pay rate: $81/hr on w2 Job Description: • 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. • Client is seeking a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer with team leadership and solid DevOps implementation experience to join our exciting and growing team. • At Client’s Biosciences you will have the opportunity to create software applications that are used to help all people live healthy lives. • Our software portfolio powers industry-leading, groundbreaking medical instruments. • The Senior DevOps Platform Engineer plays a key role in understanding our developers' challenges and defining innovative solutions to solve them. • 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.