Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Sunbird (www.sunbirddcim.com), an established leader in Data Center Infrastructure Management, is looking for a **Lead Development Operations Engineer** to provide their expertise in **Kubernetes\\OpenShift and Containerization**as we scale out our solution. Our award-winning web-based solutions help our customers understand and manage energy consumption, environmental conditions, and assets in their facilities.

Current Application Stack: Angular, Tomcat, Rails, ActiveMQ, Redis, and PostgreSQL

**Essential duties and responsibilities**

* Lead both the migration of our solution to containers and the overall design and implementation for container orchestrators such as OpenShift, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
* Create and maintain docker files, manifest files, and HELM Charts for different environments\\orchestrators
* Manage builds and deployments
* Deploy new clusters from scratch and upgrade\\maintain existing ones.
* Lead junior team members effectively
* Work closely with our cross-functional team to achieve scalability and reliability objectives
* Provide support as our customers roll the solution out to their environments
* Effectively troubleshoot operating system issues, configuration problems, authentication errors, and related software defects
* Automate operations such as backup\\restores, deployments, and upgrades.
* Follow security best practices
* Identify potential technical obstacles and come up with solutions
* Evaluate third party technologies to make recommendations for architecture roadmap
* Ability to keep up with industry trends and innovation.
* Follow Sunbird's software development process to participate in full software development life cycle

**Qualifications**

* Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or similar
* 4 years of hands-on experience on Kubernetes or OpenShift and have been involved all facets of configuration and deployments in prior positions
* Expert on Containerization (Docker preferred)
* Experience in Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) (Jenkins/Nexus/GitHub)
* 7 years of professional experience
* Strong communication skills
* Creative, industrious, self-managed
* Excels when working as part of a small, highly skilled, agile team
* BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

**Desired knowledge and skills**

A candidate with a mix of the following experiences will be at an advantage:

* Experience in Java, Tomcat and database configurations

* Advanced knowledge of Linux system administration

* Knowledge in the administration and performance tuning of web/application servers (e.g. Tomcat, Puma, Itsio, NGINX)
* Development experience in Perl, Ruby, and\\or Java
* AWS

* Experience maintaining servers, IT infrastructure and other equipment in a server room
* Experience in the day-to-day operations of a data center environment, particularly as it relates to planning and infrastructure management

**Why Sunbird?**

* We are all about delighting our clients and live/breathe the end client/user experience
* We believe in collaboration, teamwork, creativity and taking initiative

Interested? Read on for additional details about this opportunity to join our amazing team!

* What is DCIM Software: www.sunbirddcim.com/what-dcim
* What are customers saying about Sunbird: www.sunbirddcim.com/reviews
* Why work at Sunbird: www.sunbirddcim.com/careers