Lead Cloud Engineer/DevOps

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Nortal (formerly Dev9) helps organizations harness the power of the cloud with automated software solutions. Our cloud architects are experts in building new cloud applications and migrating legacy systems to the cloud. We focus on Java and JavaScript technologies to build custom software solutions based on Continuous Delivery - a set of processes and tools based on a combination of Lean and the heavy use of automation

Is automation more than just a buzzword? Are you comfortable explaining technology to others? Are you passionate about software development at work and at home? If your answer is “yes”, we would like to talk you!

Why you should join Nortal:

Keep your skills fresh by working with some of the newest technologies and tools out there

Join a small, highly collaborative team with growth opportunities

Many client engagements each bringing new challenges and opportunities for growth

What makes Nortal unique:

We don't just build software; we approach development as a well-honed craft.

We are experts who believe in being innovative while having fun, and working continuously to refine our skills.

We are committed to excellence in everything we do, from the technology we choose to the people who make up our team. With excellence as a guiding principle, we deliver quality results that ensure client satisfaction.

We approach work with integrity. We do what we say we'll do, and we operate with transparency and honesty.

We work cohesively and see each person at Dev9 as a critical contributor. We prize teamwork, and support each other in providing the best results for our clients. No one on our team is superior to another - we help each other out, in the spirit of personal growth.

We don’t deploy into infrastructure, we build with infrastructure

Essential functions and responsibilities:

Automate deployment, monitoring, management and incident response

Develop and improve operational practices and procedures

Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance, such as ISO, SOX, SSAE 16, etc.

Collaboration with on-shore and off-shore teams (both client and internal)

Interfacing and facilitating the successful completion of Rehosting and Replatforming client projects including identifying, communicating and delivering on Milestones throughout implementation

Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, take ownership for user stories, development tasks and testing

May Orient, train, assign, check the work of, and lead/direct more junior engineers

 

Cloud Experience:

Automation related to ensuring the infrastructure state (We use Ansible, Terraform, Helm & CloudEndure).

Automated building of Containers, Machine Images & Baked VMs

Multiple deployment styles including rolling deployments, blue/green and canary builds

Wide-area, shared and networked Persistent disk management with disaster recovery options

Monitoring and measurement (Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, SysDig, StackDriver, SumoLogic, Splunk)

Disaster Recovery vs. Redundancy scenarios

Multi-zone and Multi-region

Qualifications Required:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Systems Management (or equivalent work experience)

Proven leadership experience – on teams and out in the technical community

Possesses at least 3 years of experience in a lead role

10+ years operations support deploying web services/web applications experience

3+ years of experience hands-on and managing teams of DevOps or SysAdmins

Proficient with Python or Golang

Cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure, private cloud) using networking, firewalls, compute machines, multiple storage technologies and managed services

Experience with SSH configuration and key management

Experience building and delivering containers for applications (e.g. rkt, cri-o, Docker)

Experience with container orchestration (Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker Compose)

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Google Deployment Manager, CloudFormation, etc)

User-level familiarity with modern build experience tools such as Maven/SBT/Grunt/Webpack/npm and familiar with continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity) systems

Strong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques

Very comfortable with Linux & Network administration including load balancing, routing, firewalls, VPN

Experienced with disaster recovery and understanding of high availability

Strong understanding of project lifecycle and delivery

Experience using CAP Theorem (Consistency, Availability, Partitioning) to configure systems

Qualifications preferred:

DevOps experience (e.g. Ansible, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Experience setting up new Google Cloud Platform projects

NoSQL experience (e.g. MongoDB)

Good communication skills to convey technical and project status to multiple audiences

Comfortable describing how applications and cloud interact with the various OSI levels

Experience working with certificates & encryption methods for TLS and static encryption

Tooling we use:

Github for code

Trello for tasks

Vault for secrets

Slack for all communications

Ansible for server states

Terraform for infrastructure states

Python or Go for everything else

Must be authorized to work in the US. 

Check us out www.nortal.com 

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Right in the heart of downtown Kirkland and within walking distance to the lake

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