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