Sr. DevOPS Engineer

Position: Sr. DevOPS Engineer (10+ years exp only) Location: 100%Remote Duration : Long Term contract Description: Required Skills: Senior DevOps Engineer, Linux, Unix, CI.CD , AWS, Python, puppet, Chef etc. Prior banking client or Fintech client experience needed WONT ACCEPT BELOW 10 YEARS OF CANDIDATES. Your tasks will include • Enabling our customers to setup their environments from test to production; • Designing, developing and overseeing the implementation of solutions that improve the stability, scalability, availability and latency; • Working hand in hand with our customers onsite (around 50% of the time you will be travelling internationally); • Taking ownership of project deliverables; • Creating solutions rather than workarounds; • Configuring CI & CD systems; • Ensuring reliability by automation; • Giving advice on latest security standards; • Pin-pointing bottlenecks and optimizing performance; • Resolving incidents and problems; • Collaborating with our R&D team to improve our product; • Being a real DevOps Advocate. Your background • Bachelor / University degree or equivalent; • You have been in a client facing position before and feel comfortable in an advisory role; • You have outstanding analytical skills • You have designed and/or built mission critical services (large scale internet or cloud-based services); • Shell, scripting and Python programming experience; • Expertise with Linux / Unix systems; • Experience with any of configuration management tools (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt); • Experience with any of continuous integration server (such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD); • You love efficiency and find smart ways to automate tasks for you and your team; • Knowledge of cloud computing concepts, experience with AWS, or Azure, or GCE; • Solid understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (Zabbix, NewRelic, Cactai, Graphite, Log Stash, Nagios, Ganglia etc.); • Must have working knowledge of Maven and Jenkins; • Proven experience with production systems and dealing with production issues; • Driven, focused self-starter who takes ownership; • Extensive knowledge and experience with automation tools; • Experience deploying to application servers such as Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere in enterprise environments, and working with Relational and NoSQL Databases; • Experienced with using Agile development methodologies; • Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken). Originally posted on Himalayas