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Job Description Template for a DevOps engineer

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Job Description

Senior DevOps Engineer

Time Commitment

Full-time

Start date

As soon as possible

Location

Remote

Client Country & Time Zone

United States

America/New York

Client company description

The company is a consulting firm that specializes in customizable conference sites for events in New York.

Expected contract duration: 12+ months

Overview

You will be working on infrastructure-related tasks to keep all of the client’s applications up and running.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Manage Amazon Web Services using Terraform and Bash scripts
- Monitor and troubleshoot server events and issues reported by clients
- Improve redundancy of their systems
- Implement auto-scaling to handle fluctuating traffic demands
- Setup and manage the deployment of multiple client applications to the testing and production environments.

Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with Ansible would be appreciated for managing some other existing processes.

The client uses Trello for task management and Slack for daily communication.
Github will be used for source control.

Skills
Skill level
Importance
1
AWS
Skill level:Expert
Importance:Must have
2
Terraform
Skill level:Proficient
Importance:Must have
3
Linux
Skill level:Expert
Importance:Must have
4
Bash
Skill level:Proficient
Importance:Must have
5
English Proficiency
Skill level:Expert
Importance:Must have
6
Kubernetes
Skill level:Proficient
Importance:Strongly preferred
7
Docker
Skill level:Proficient
Importance:Strongly preferred
8
Ansible
Skill level:Proficient
Importance:Strongly preferred

Relationships: Who you’ll be working with

You will be reporting to a Senior Tech Lead who is managing the project.

Preferred Regions

The client's preference is for candidates to be located in Latin America or Canada

Notes

The client would prefer to have someone work full-time on the project but is open to candidates who are a great fit and have at least 20 hours/week.

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