DevOps Engineer IV

Must have skills/experience/certs and/or technologies: Develop automation for cloud lifecycle management and operational improvements Strong understanding of runners and webhooks in Gitlab or comparable tools Understanding of unit tests and other QA best practices in a CI/CD environment Strong experience using Ansible Strong experience with Gitlab runners and webhooks, and with artifactory Experience with workflow engines in a development or user capacity (Itential, Stackstorm, Ansible Tower, etc.) Understanding of templates, including Jinja2 Experience with infrastructure onboarding, PXE booting, or other methods of provisioning servers Experience with Cloud Management Platform (e.g. Morpheus) is a plus Passion for cloud software, tooling and automation; comfort with command line tools and scripting Experience working with integration scripting technologies Most Important On-Prem Cloud Experience is a huge must. Goal is build an AWS-lite on-prem for Charter Ansible Linux Environment CI/CD Pipeline Experience Regression and Unit Testing Experience Formal Job Description: Produce architecture blueprints that guide the development and implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple products, providing direction to technical teams during project delivery and ensuring implementations support technology and product roadmaps. The Cloud Solutions Architect provides their expertise in the development and maintenance of architecture standards and solutions that align with strategic goals and partner with product managers, business analysts, designers, and software engineers to navigate solution decisions. Responsibilities: Responsible for creating solutions and presenting compelling recommendations to customers. Define operational procedures and practices Define KPIs and set up appropriate health-checks, monitoring and escalation procedures Accelerate development for roadmap features, to address specific customer requirements Identify ongoing risks and pain points throughout the project, develop and implement mitigation measures. Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the knowledge base, blogs, and brown bag lunches. Capture project lessons and convert them into architectural best practices applicable to the broader install base; mentor and coach the internal team through internal training sessions. Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to review customer requirements and feedback, and identify opportunities for platform enhancements Skills and Knowledge: Knowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, deploying and running solutions in a cloud environment, and private, public, and hybrid clouds Extensive experience with Internet technologies and protocols like TCP/IP, VPN, SSL and HTTP Hands-on experience with public and private cloud services (AWS, Openstack, VMWare, ect) as well as load balancers and networking devices Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery / fail-over infrastructures Development experience with database or application integration technology Deep knowledge of Linux fundamentals Knowledge of Open Source architectures and/or past contributions to open source projects Design, development and operations experience with highly-available, scalable, and fault tolerant systems Experience with agile/scrum methodologies Professional Cloud Solutions Architect (PCSA) Certification. Required Skills : Ansible • Develop automation for cloud lifecycle management and operational improvements • Strong understanding of runners and webhooks in Gitlab or comparable tools • Understanding of unit tests and other QA best practices in a CI/CD environment • Strong experience using Ansible Background Check :Yes Notes : Selling points for candidate : Project Verification Info : Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes Exclusive to Apex :No Face to face interview required :Yes Candidate must be local :No Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No Interview times set : :No Type of project :Development/Engineering Master Job Title :Dev: Open Source Branch Code :Denver