Principal I, DevOps

Overview:**Recruiter -** Lorena Padilla**Position reports to**:Medini Buragohain**Work schedule**: Hybrid, going to the office in GDL for 3 daysThe Principal I of DevOps Engineering acts as a technical expert, focusing on providing expertise, guidance, and support on solutions requiring deep technical experience especially Kubernetes.**Detailed Responsibilities**:- Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Google cloud.- Migrating n-tiered workloads from on-prem and other clouds to Azure/GCP with near-zero downtime (includes full-spectrum of lift and shift to complete re-platforming scenarios).- Building hybrid-cloud solutions based on VM and containerization technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, and Anthos.- Installing, deploying, configuring, recommending improvements, and maintaining the docker/Kubernetes cluster itself through deployment pipelines and automation.- Create and deploy Kubernetes clusters on different cloud environments, especially in AKS and GKE.- Experience in creating and managing production scale Kubernetes clusters (GKE) and implement best practices.- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop, maintain, and optimize infrastructure code using.Terraform cloud to provision and manage cloud resources.- Write Helm charts / teach others to write Helm charts to facilitate migration to Kubernetes.- Build and implement CI/CD pipelines.- Support our Kubernetes-based projects to resolve critical and complex technical issues.- Design, build, and run elastic, cost-effective, resilient, robust, and secure architectures in the cloud using modern approaches like service mesh and loosely coupled design.- Design and implement Network connectivity and provisioning Strategy Assess and design RBAC needs to Ensure the Cloud foundation is strong and with needed compliance requirements.- Maintain, configure, and monitor containers using Infrastructure as Code principles in Development, Test, and Live environments.- Implement Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment using different CI/CD tools such as cloud build, cloud deploy, Argo CD, azure devops.- Monitor and optimize resource usage within the clusters.Job Qualifications:Skills:- ** GCP** experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization- Expertise in IAC development with **Terraform**:- Experience with IAAS and PAAS solutions- Proficient with GIT to perform source code management- Experience with Terraform Cloud and CICD tooling- Experience with **Kubernetes** administration **(GKE)**:- Experience with microservices architecture- Knowledge of Linux- Understanding of observability, what are the key metrics to monitor, and how to establish a monitoring foundation.- Proficient in a wide variety of Cloud Native Services, and to an extent able to consult others.- Familiar with programming paradigms and concepts like OOP, multi-threading, idempotency.- Learning, and also sharing knowledge with others.Certificates / Training:- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) is a plus- Azure/GCP Certification is a plus**Experience**:- 6 + years experience in DevOps/SRE with deep expertise in one area.- Experience with running Kubernetes clusters in production.**Education**:- Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent combination of experience may be considered in lieu of education.- Preferred: Advanced Technical Degree.Principles & Related Competencies:Ethical- Complies with policies and procedures; Takes the high road and upholds our values; Maintains confidentiality; Acts with integrity, honesty and respect.Leader- Communicates the big picture whether remotely or in-person, connecting the dots globally and overcoming obstacles; Gives and receives frequent feedback, learns, teaches, encourages information sharing and cooperation among teams; Celebrates the individual and the team; Ability to clearly communicate.Collaborative- Communicates the big picture whether remotely or in-person, connecting the dots globally and overcoming obstacles; Gives and receives frequent feedback, learns, teaches, encourages information sharing and cooperation among teams; Celebrates the individual and the team; Ability to clearly communicate.Looks Beyond Oneself- (Team Leader) Demonstrates humility through servant leadership by thinking about what can I do as a leader to help you achieve your goals; Develops a vision (strategy) and sets goals and targets, fostering an environment which encourages achievement; Inspires and influences people to work together cohesively and enthusiastically engages with them; Welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and ideas; Values Distributors and teammates.Drives Innovation- Add value through: Driving opportunities for all 3 types of innovation (incremental, evolutionary or disruptive); Proposing ideas and creative solutions to employee, distributor and/