DevOps Consultant

Chiago, Illinois | Contract

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DevOps Consultant
Location: Chicago – REMOTE
Start: ASAP
Interview :Video
Duration: 6+ months

Job Description

Candidate should have at least 3+ years experience working on cloud platforms or in Linux systems administration as well as experience in the following areas

General
- Linux server administration, maintenance, networking and application configuration
- Experience setting up backups and disaster recovery
- Prior development experience preferred, ability to write and understand shell/bash scripts
- Experience with Git, code management, branching strategies
- Creating and working with Dockerfiles, and container images
- Monitoring/operation tools (Datadog, Application Insights, Splunk, ELK stack)
- Configuration Management tools (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
- Experience with cloud storage solutions (blob storage, file shares)
- Ability to identify and configure optimal data storage solution for a given situation
- Documenting systems and networks, refining requirements, self-identify solutions and communicating to the team

Networking
- NGINX configuration, TLS termination, working with certificates for TLS/SSL
- Experience managing and planning network architecture – v-nets, subnets, peering, VPNs
- Experience debugging networking issues (within cloud environment as well as within a kubernetes cluster)
- Experience configuring firewalls (on cloud platform and on ubuntu servers)

Kubernetes
- Creating, managing, and monitoring a kubernetes cluster
- Helm deployments, configMaps, and stateful sets
- Managing resource requests and limits
- Experience scaling a cluster and knowledge of techniques to manage load on cluster

Deployment Pipelines
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions knowledge is preferable)

Bonus (nice to haves)
- AWS/Azure/GCP cloud experience.
- AI/Machine Learning experience (Tensor Flow)
- Neo4j – Graph Database
- Big Data, data analysis experience