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Zencon Group

Sr. DevOps Engineer w/ Apigee

Zencon Group, Owings Mills, Maryland, United States, 21117


Job Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer w/ ApigeeLocation: Owings Mills MD Hybrid (two days onsite required, ideally candidates are local and don't need to relocate)Contract Length: 6 months, very likely to extend long term

Notes from Call:

supporting Apigee platform (API management platform)need strong AWS, kubernetes, EKS, and API management platformsautomation is very importantcandidates need to be able to articulate past experience, projects they worked on, and how they worked with this technologywant to see where they have sent most of their time and not general resumes. They hate "we " in the resume, want to knowwhat the candidate specifically didfocus on accomplishments and the value add to the companies they are working atlike it when candidates can talk about challenges and issues on projects they worked and how they were overcome

Job Description:The Reliability & Integration Engineering team is responsible for platform engineering. The Sr. DevOps Engineer will be responsible for migrating the private cloud Apigee API management platform migration to Apigee Hybrid, automating through Ansible, and coordinating the migration with development and operations teams.

ResponsibilitiesAutomating manual platform management processes through Ansible or other scripting tools/languagesSupport platform upgrades, migration including coordinating testing of upgrades with users of the platformCoordinating and collaborating with users of the platformDevelop training and documentation materialsExecuting disaster recovery playbooks

Experience GeneralAbility to troubleshoot and diagnose complex issuesAble to demonstrate experience supporting technical users and conduct requirements analysisCan work independently with minimal guidance & oversightExperience with IT Service Management and familiarity with Incident & Problem managementExperience in using Git based DevOps processesDevelop training and documentation materials

Required Technical ExpertiseExperience in container orchestration solutions with Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate3+ years of experience within the Amazon Web Services platform or GCP or AzureStrong infrastructure engineering experienceCloud application architecture - Microservices, REST, etc.Docker container development experienceExperience in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based solutions using AWS5+ years of systems design, programming, implementation, and integration experienceA solid core foundation in infrastructure and systems engineering including Unix/Linux compute, networking, storage, and monitoring stacks.Experience developing micro services in both multi-tenant and dedicated micro service runtime environments. Is familiar with the Open Container Initiative and both docker and containerd runtimes.Off-hour implementations are requiredDemonstrate proficiency with scripting and automation (bash, python, other programming languages)

Preferred Technical ExperienceExperience within Apigee or another API management platformExperience using GitlabExperience with large platform migration effortsExperience with AWS API Gateway