Staff DevOps Engineer (Remote, US and India)

Your Role & Mission:

As the Staff DevOps Engineer, this role will have direct input into how we scale, secure, and monitor our systems and services throughout the entire organization. You will work on our Infrastructure team made up of experienced Systems Engineers with a diverse background and collaboratively build upon our cutting-edge infrastructure platform. Apollo Engineering strongly believes in allowing team members to take ownership of what they do, and our approach to problem-solving relies heavily upon creativity, communication, and collaboration.

Daily Adventures & Responsibilities:

As the Staff DevOps Engineer, you will work on:

• Infrastructure Ownership 
• GCP support, operation, scale, and architect ensure high availability of all systems
• High availability of production systems, and a highly visible and measurable environment
• Automating and streamlining standard infrastructure operations.
• Provisioning IAM Users, Roles and Permissions
• Dynamic Secrets Injection and Application Secrets Management
• GKE Cluster provisioning, maintenance and upgrades.
• Proficiency in Auto Scaling techniques and Deployment strategies for high availability and self-healing infrastructure. 
• Database support with MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RedisCache.
• Making high-level decisions on technologies we use to create and deploy our applications.

• Internal Tools Ownership
  • Terraform and Packer automation
  • Ansible support and improvements to automation
  • Github Actions CI & ArgoCD
  • Code Deployment Pipelines - creation, operation, and upgrades.
  • Kubernetes Cluster Provisioning and Operations (multi cluster, 100+nodes per cluster)
  • Hashicorp Vault
  • Monitoring systems implementation and support, expanding to provide a comprehensive monitoring solution, At a Glance system statuses.
  • Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes.

• Project Tasks 
  • Task prioritization.
  • Task and project level estimation.
  • Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize  epics, stories and tickets and track progress.
  • Requirements gathering required for projects.
  • Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed.
  • Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning.

• Network Configuration and Support
  • GCP Networking, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Virtual Private Clouds, etc ..
  • API Gateway and Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

• Cross-Functional Collaboration 
  • Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats.
  • Prioritize cross-functional requests against each other and planned Dev Ops work
  • Communicate the team’s progress on key projects and metrics to engineering management.
  • 12 Factor Application Design

Experience Required to apply for this role:

• 7-9+ years of experience working in a production environment.
• 3+ Years Experience working with Kubernetes in production 
• 1 Year of Experience working with MongoDB and/or Elasticsearch in production.
• Experience deploying front and backend applications at scale 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for web applications built with Ruby on Rails, NodeJS Python 
• Strong background in Linux/UNIX (Debian/Ubuntu)
• Experience sharing L1 PagerDuty rotations
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, preferably with multiple GCP services
• Information Security best practices, particularly in the context of GCP and BigData
• Knowledge and experience with infra security tools such. (Nessus,  Uptycs, etc)
• Experience with configuration management & automation (Ansible, Terraform, Atlantis)
• Monitoring and Metrics gathering (GCP Logs, Prometheus, NewRelic)
• Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker)
• Container Application Security, Vulnerability Scanning and Remediation (Snyk, Qualys, etc)
• Knowledgeable in networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, IPSEC, etc.)
• Experience with Corporate VPN to Cloud Networking and Management (Pritunl, pfSense, etc)
• Ability to design and maintain Application Routing solutions
• Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
• Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques.
• General experience with NoSql, RDBMS (Access Control, Administration, Tuning, etc.)

Preferred Skills:

• Experience validating and deploying software to cloud infrastructure, including running unit tests, producing build artifacts, and running end to end tests.
• Ability to organize and drive an infrastructure project using Agile project management tools and techniques.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering teams.
• Performance benchmarking and capacity planning
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department.