GCP DevOps Engineer - Remote

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview

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.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• 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 and Chef.
• 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 Jenkins, Git, Maven, and Vagrant.
• Implement and maintain container-based application services using Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

Education Qualifications

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

Experience Qualifications

• Five (5) years of RHEL systems administration (certification a plus).
• Four (4) - seven (7) years of production support experience, with incident/change management, capacity planning, and problem resolution.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Production support experience, with incident/change management, capacity planning, and problem resolution.
• Experience supporting cloud platforms based on AWS/GCP/Azure. Certification a plus.
• Experience working with the varied classes of cloud storage systems across GCP/AWS/Azure.
• L2/L3 networking skills, including good understanding of cloud networking solutions (SDN's) provided by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Including but not limited to connectivity, security, and redundancy.
• Experience with micro services and distributed architecture applications.
• Proficiency with Chef, Groovy, shell scripting, python or equivalent scripting language.
• Infrastructure as Code experience.
• 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.

Licenses and Certifications

• None

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

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.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $57.42 - $76.09 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.