DevOps Automation (Puppet and Chef) Specialist

remote / home office job

Role Overview

Our client is looking for a stellar DevOps Automation Engineer to join an elite development team. You will architect and manage the end to end automation for continuous integration of cloud based SaaS products they develop. They are seeking an individual to collaborate with various remote teams involved in the software development cycle in order to build an innovative continuous integration system utilizing cutting edge technology.

They are focused on improving productivity for the entire software development lifecycle, not just an individual programmer or system engineer. They have an obsessive focus on automation, quality, and productivity.

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• Spent 5 - 10 years in a combined hands on architecture and software engineering role.
• Broad technology capability set, comfortable using various technologies to architect, develop, and iteratively deploy, real enterprise class software.
• Recent experience with DevOps and Cloud architecture

• You are obsessively focused on code quality, software engineering and deployment processes, and strive for the opportunity to automate it.
• Optimizing performance and scalability to meet business and financial goals challenge and excite you at the same time.
• You believe that there is a 10x range in productivity between DevOps engineers.  You are on the 10x side of the productivity range.
• You have a passion for iterative development, because that is what our service offers and the way we will build it!  - “Shipping is a feature”

• Expert level Linux System Administrator - CentOS - knows ins and outs of custom RPMs
• DevOps tools - Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline
• Cloud Infrastructure and their APIs/CLIs/Services - Amazon AWS
• Virtualization Technologies - VMware ESX
• Programming Languages - Python, Ruby, Lisp, Clojure, Linux Shell (Bash, Bourne)
• Language: English - Advanced

Must be comfortable/excited about working independently and with others in a global/virtual team.  Lots of Skype, GoToMeeting, video conferencing, Google Docs, etc.

Compensation

    $30/hour

This is a full time, 40 hour/week job. Please do not apply if you’re not able to commit to 40 hours per week full time work.