GCP DevOps Engineer - Remote

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines using hosted cloud-based services in Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure. This position is part of the cloud platforms team and works with solution architects and management to ensure customer requirements are met in a timely and efficient manner. As we are a medical institution, security, data integrity, and system availability are essential. Our cloud workloads vary from medical research to internal applications and services.

Job Duties• Maintain close contact with customers to address support requests for the platforms in your care to maintain agreed upon SLAs• Work with solution architects to implement cloud applications and services based on customer requirements. • Act as an escalation for support administrators troubleshooting complex workflows.• Maintain secure environments in accordance with established guidelines and practices maintaining the model of least privileged access.• Maintain security compliance through system and application patching as required.• Implement and maintain application and pipeline performance/health monitoring for cloud infrastructure-based solutions.• Create, maintain, and share metrics and reporting data for management review and planning. Splunk integration experience a plus.• Implement and maintain standards for configuration management of cloud infrastructure services • Seek opportunities to improve or optimize processes through automation via cloud centric tools, Terraform, and other automation scripting tools.
Revise existing solutions to modernize with the latest advances in cloud technologies to keep environments operating efficiently.
Develop and maintain CI/CD solutions based on Drone, Gitlab, Github, Maven, and Vagrant.
Implement and maintain container-based application services using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Education: Bachelor's degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university

Experience: 5 years of RHEL systems administration. Certification a plus. 4-7 years of production support experience, with incident/change management, capacity planning, and problem resolution.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience supporting cloud platforms based on Azure/GCP. Certification a plus.
• Experience working with the varied classes of cloud storage systems across GCP/Azure.
• L2/L3 networking skills, including good understanding of cloud networking solutions (SDN's) provided by Google and Microsoft. Including but not limited to connectivity, security, and redundancy.
• Experience with micro services and distributed architecture applications a plus.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Chef, Drone / Jenkins, Git, shell scripting, python or equivalent scripting language.
• Infrastructure as Code experience based on cloud automation using Terraform and cloud services such as Azure and GCP Devops.
• Simple understanding of database SQL.
• Ability to write simple queries and verify databases.
• Strong communicator that is self-driven and willing to adapt quickly to the changing landscape of cloud
• Simple understanding of database SQL.
• Ability to write simple queries and verify databases.
• Strong communicator that is self-driven and willing to adapt quickly to the changing landscape of cloud technologies.
• An understanding of the Agile development method and its implementation

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.