DevOps Engineer

Job Description
Position Title:
DevOps Engineer

Position Description:
Protingent Staffing has an exciting Contract DevOps Engineer opportunity.

Job Description:

• We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team.
• This senior-level role demands a multi-cloud expert with profound Kubernetes knowledge to architect, implement, and optimise complex infrastructure across diverse cloud environments.
• The ideal candidate will drive our multi-cloud strategy, ensuring seamless container orchestration and deployment workflows.

Job Responsibilities:

• Multi-Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Management:

• Design and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and DigitalOcean.

• Architect cloud-agnostic solutions that maximize portability and avoid vendor lock-in.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Pulumi, and cloud-native tools.
• Optimise cost efficiency across multiple cloud providers through strategic workload placement.

• Design and implement multi-cloud disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.

• Kubernetes & Container Orchestration Leadership:

• Architect and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud environments.

• Design and implement multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments.
• Manage Kubernetes distributions including EKS (AWS), AKS (Azure), GKE (GCP), OKE (OCI), and DOKS (DigitalOcean).
• Implement advanced Kubernetes patterns: operators, custom resources, and admission controllers.
• Design service mesh architectures using Istio, Linkerd, or Consul Connect.

• Optimise cluster autoscaling, resource allocation, and workload scheduling.

• Advanced CI/CD & GitOps:

• Design sophisticated CI/CD pipelines that deploy across multiple cloud environments.

• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, Flux, or similar tools.
• Create automated testing strategies for multi-cloud deployments.
• Develop advanced deployment patterns: blue-green, canary, progressive delivery.

• Build cross-cloud promotion pipelines with environment-specific configurations.

• Monitoring & Observability:

• Implement unified monitoring across all cloud platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native tools.

• Design distributed tracing solutions for multi-cloud microservices architectures.
• Establish comprehensive logging strategies using ELK Stack, Fluentd, and cloud logging services.
• Create cross-cloud alerting and incident response workflows.

• Implement chaos engineering practices to test multi-cloud resilience.

• Security & Compliance:

• Implement zero-trust security models across all cloud environments.

• Manage secrets, certificates, and access controls using HashiCorp Vault, cloud KMS, and Kubernetes secrets.
• Ensure compliance across different cloud providers' security frameworks.
• Implement network security policies and micro-segmentation.

• Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability management.

• Leadership & Strategic Planning:

• Lead technical architecture decisions for multi-cloud initiatives.

• Mentor junior DevOps engineers on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native best practices across development teams.
• Participate in vendor evaluation and cloud provider selection processes.

Job Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with multiple cloud platforms.
• 5+ years of production Kubernetes experience across different environments.
• 4+ years of experience leading technical projects and mentoring team members.
• 3+ years of multi-cloud architecture and implementation experience.

• Technical Skills:

• Cloud Platforms

• AWS: EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, Lambda.
• Azure: AKS, Virtual Machines, Resource Manager, Azure DevOps.
• Google Cloud Platform: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Build, IAM.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: OKE, Compute, Networking, Resource Manager.

• DigitalOcean: DOKS, Droplets, Load Balancers, Spaces.

• Kubernetes & Containers

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Location: Remote (Preferably in or near New York/San Francisco).
• Pay Rate Range: TBD

Benefits Package:
Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent:
Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to product development companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.