Job description

Why work at OpTech?

OpTech is a woman-owned company that values your ideas, encourages your growth, and always has your back. When you work at OpTech, not only do you get health and dental benefits on the first day of employment, but you also have training opportunities, growth opportunities, 401K and competitive pay.

Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations. Will assist in engineering solutions that maximize the throughput of code releases through automated, secure and portable tools and functions.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in the analysis, design and development of technical specifications, programming, and testing of DevOps components.
• Participates in design and scripting reviews to ensure that design and enterprise programming standards and guidelines are followed. Assist with creating or updating the enterprise standards when gaps are identified.
• Assists team members in issue resolution, scalability metrics, integration issues, and critical production issues as required.
• Follows technology best practices and standards and escalates any issues as they deem appropriate. Follows architecture and design best practices (as guided by the Senior Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer & Architectural team).
• Responsible for assisting in configuration and scripting to implement fully automated infrastructure provisioning, image builds, and instance deployment capabilities.
• Follows standard change control and configuration management practices.
• Participates in 24-hour on-call rotation in support of the platform.

Required Skills/Qualifications

• Drive and desire to automate repeatable processes
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, as well as the willingness to collaborate with teams across the organization
• Experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/programming.
• Linux/Unix OS experience
• Kubernetes experience

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification
• Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. OpenStack, Azure, AWS, etc.), container concepts (eg. Docker), infrastructure deployment tools (eg. Ansible, Chef, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg. ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Qualified candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Candidate sponsorship is not available and C2C resources are not permitted on this role.

OpTech is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $56.00 - $63.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Okemos, MI: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Are you able to work onsite in the Lansing Area up to 2x per week?

Experience:

• DevOps: 5 years (Preferred)
• AWS: 3 years (Preferred)
• Kubernetes: 3 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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