DevOps Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA

***Please note that our customer is currently not considering applicants from the following locations: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.***

Our Customer is a corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery. Founded in 1995, their goal was to create innovative, robotic-assisted systems that help empower doctors and hospitals to make surgery less invasive than an open approach. Working with the top medical professionals, they continue to develop new, minimally invasive surgical platforms and future diagnostic tools to help solve complex healthcare challenges around the world.

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer on a contract basis to support our Customer's business needs. This role is a hybrid setup (onsite 3 days a week) at our Customer's Sunnyvale, CA.

What You'll Do:

• Write automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at scale
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for code deployment, management, and visibility of application services
• Develop tools and frameworks to automate operational tasks and deploy machines, services, and applications
• Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical components of the application
• Audit existing services for problems in infrastructure with security, configuration or other possible issues
• Providing support to the infrastructure hosting Critical DevOps tools and Applications
• Support engineering Linux systems
• Ability to keep up with software development trends and innovation

Skill/Job Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Engineering strongly desired
• 4+ Years of experience in DevOps Engineering, team management, and collaboration
• 3+ years of administering Linux versions of RHEL, Ubuntu, and CentOS
• Experience with IaaS (Terraform) implementing scalable cloud / On-prem based environments and systems; service-oriented architectures and microservices; deploying resilient, scalable, high-throughput systems
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes for enterprise SaaS and on-prem applications using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira, packer, etc.
• Support, to include Linux subsystems, patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Good knowledge of programming languages such as Python and Java and writing code and scripts
• Experience working with virtualization Platforms as VMWare, AWS, Nutanix AHV.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs using automation tools like terraform
• Hands-on experience in building and administering Containers using tools such as Docker / Kubernetes and Helm
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring technologies such as Elastic Search, Prometheus, Grafana etc.
• Ability to install and configure software, gather test-stage data, and perform de-bugging
• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics
• Advanced knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong hardware/software troubleshooting skills
• Strong networking knowledge and experience is highly desired
• Develop/Maintain Documentation on operational, configuration, or other procedures
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to oversee and mentor junior software developers, as well as report to management
• Must be able to work independently and self-directed, as well as within a team
• Successful candidates should be flexible and able to complete projects outside normal daily duties as needed

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)
Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.