Senior Advanced DevOps Engineer

Acara Solution is seeking a Senior Advanced DevOps Engineer for our client, located in Boulder, CO.

• Contribute to automation that instantiates and maintains container orchestration platforms.
• Automatically configure and deploy infrastructure services consisting of identity and access management, network architecture, application security, logging, monitoring, deployment, and more.
• Work closely with our team to plan major updates and enhancements to our products.
• In this role, you will be working with critical internal and external platform consumers.
• Together with the team, you will support the successful implementation of the platform in the Cloud through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.
• Container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Deployment or use of continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies such as GitLab, Jenkins, Puppet, or Chef.
• Creation or use of pipelines, Ansible Playbooks, and Terraform configurations to automate administrative actions from resource creation to service configuration.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others.

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering or Science or Engineering or Technology or Mathematics with 8 years of experience.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in working with differences between public (AWS, Azure), private (RHOSP, VIO), and mixed cloud environments.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in supporting production-grade applications in virtualized environments (cloud computing platforms and services) using automation.

• Master's Degree with 6 years of experience.
• Agile experience.
• Effective communication and attention to detail.
• Good understanding of the software development process, as well as software engineering concepts, principles, and theories.
• Creative thinker capable of applying new information quickly to solve challenging problems.
• Team player who thrives in collaborative environments and revels in team success.
• Experience with IT security practices, including encryption, certificates, key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, or security hardening, and auditing.
• Experience with the installation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technologies such as Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, RHOSP, or VIO.
• Experience with the management of Cloud Resources in Amazon Web Services and Azure.
• Experience with Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies such as Kubernetes, Rancher, or OpenShift.
• Experience with Cloud automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, or Packer.
• Experience with open-source server, messaging, load balancing, and database software (such as RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch).
• Experience with Scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers (NGINX)/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms).

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance.