Senior Engineer, Cloud & DevOps

This is a consulting opportunity with a unique scheduling requirement ideal for someone in EST schedule - initially the hours will be 5 AM-1 PM EST -after 1-3 months it will change to regular 9-5 EST hours The overall contract will be at least 6 months with possibility in future to convert to perm. Title: Senior Engineer, Cloud & DevOps Must-Have Skills: Hhighly experienced DevOps professional with a strong background in Azure DevOps and provisioning tools like CloudFormation or Terraform • DevOps Mindset: Deep knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices. • Experience: Minimum 10 years of DevOps/Cloud experience. • Azure DevOps: Hands-on experience in Azure DevOps build (both classic pipelines and YAML). • Release Management: Hands-on experience in Azure DevOps release (both classic pipelines and YAML). • Docker: Hands-on experience in creating Docker containers. • Environment Maintenance: Hands-on experience in maintaining Azure DevOps environment (agents, projects, Git repos, service connections). • Provisioning Tools: Several years of hands-on experience in CloudFormation or Terraform. • Pipeline Creation: Hands-on experience creating pipelines to provision resources in the Cloud. • Coding Skills: Demonstrated coding skills (bash, PowerShell, Python, C#, or any other high-level language). • Version Control: Proficiency in Git and other version control systems. Highly Wanted Skills: • Senior Coder: A senior coder who has switched to a DevOps role. • AWS Pipelines: Several years of hands-on experience creating pipelines to provision resources in AWS. • Monitoring Tools: Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana. • Kubernetes: Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes. Soft Skills: • Communication: Strong communication skills. • Collaboration: Effective collaboration skills. • Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills. You will be a Senior Engineer, Cloud & DevOps. You will part of a global, agile and collaborative team that will help to influence and execute upon global Cloud strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a talented team during a period of dynamic growth & expansion. You will report to the Global Head of Cloud & DevOps. Your responsibilities will include: • Designing, building and running modern enterprise systems on Cloud platforms leveraging DevOps methodologies • Building secure, scalable, and highly available solutions that adhere with enterprise policies and industry standards & best practices • Advising on opportunities for application modernization, automation, scalability and resiliency • Driving continual improvements as technical and business needs evolve in line with corporate strategy Be Yourself We are building a differentiated culture and approach. We have shared values that drive our behavior and a culture that makes it a fun, exciting, and productive place to work and a great partner to do business with. You should be entrepreneurial, pioneering, open, and yourself. Your skills and abilities should include: • A desire and curiosity to learn & implement innovative ways to solve challenges and meet business needs. The ability to think and execute with a well-architected and secure-by-design approach. • Strong hand-on experience with Kubernetes (Amazon EKS in particular) • Demonstrated experience with a broad set of AWS technologies, across the areas of compute, data, networking and security, with a particular emphasis on serverless and containerized workloads. Similar experience with Azure and other Cloud service providers is a plus. • Demonstrated experience and comfort working with various CI/CD tools and methodologies including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) & GitOps. A scripting & automation mindset is a must. Specific experience with Azure DevOps, Atlassian and Terraform are a plus. • Familiarity with Cloud platform management & governance at scale, particularly across a multi-cloud, multi-account, multi-region ecosystem • Experience with integrating Cloud infrastructure and applications with Cloud-agnostic tooling in areas such as monitoring, observability, identity & security • Experience and comfort level with both Microsoft and Linux operating systems, standard networking concepts and general familiarity with various database platforms • Excellent communication skills (verbal & written) including technical documentation, with a strong teamwork and customer service mindset Vertex Solutions Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, citizenship, sex, marital or veteran status, disability or handicap, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.