Senior System Engineer - Richardson, United States - Educated Solutions Corp

Description

Our Client, a leader in commercial real estate and facilities/asset management is seeking to add a Senior Systems Engineer to its team. This role will work HYBRID (in office Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) in Richardson, TX and works Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm. This is a contract role that pays $60-63 per hour.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support multi-cloud solutions: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Ali Cloud
• Ensuring operational integrity of Global Cyber-Security Office DevSecOps applications and infrastructure
• Tracking, comparing, and reporting SLOs and SLIs against defined SLAs to guarantee reliability and availability.
• Be On-call rotation to ensure uptime and functionality of critical internal customer services
• Manage and support source control management and best practices using Git, Azure DevOps, and GitHub
• Create and update the Cloud Infrastructure to meet the application needs using Terraform.
• Create Build and Release pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) using tools like Jenkins, and Azure DevOps.
• Deploying application updates and fixes to production and non-production environments.
• Setting up and managing custom agents in Azure DevOps to meet specific pipeline requirements and ensure efficient execution of CI/CD processes.
• Configure the networking requirements for the application.
• Set up and manage application and infrastructure monitoring using logging systems like DataDog.
• Ensuring that all systems are secure and up to date with the cloud compliance guidelines.
• Implementing and testing disaster recovery strategies to ensure business continuity in the event of a system failure.
• Support bi-weekly Releases.
• Review cloud costs and fix Cloud tagging ongoing basis.
• Maintain CI/CD for any issues, compliance and modernize needs.
• Use and maintain automated vulnerability scanning tools, like Cycode, Sync and Veracode, to detect potential security issues in your code or dependencies.
• Implement and manage secure secrets management systems to protect sensitive information such as API keys and database credentials. Ensure these secrets are not stored in the code using tools like HashiCorp's Vault for managing and securely injecting secrets into applications.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor in related field or equivalent work experience.
• Advanced experience administering Kubernetes, and understanding of manifest management with Helm.
• Advanced experience solutioning with AWS services such as IAM, KMS, EC2, EKS, S3, Route53, CloudFront, ACM, Secrets.
• Expert experience writing and running Terraform and advanced understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
• Advanced of Linux systems administrator experience or equivalent skills.
• Intermediate experience or equivalent skills with DevOps or CICD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, etc...)
• Intermediate experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, SaltStack.
• Advanced experience with automating multiple systems using languages such as Bash, Python and Ruby and Go
• Deep experience with AWS RDS and Aurora databases such as Postgres, MySQL, and MS SQL Server.
• Deep understanding of source control management and practices using Git, and Github.
• Directory services like AD, and LDAP.
• Understanding and experience with backend software application development with Ruby or Go including API development and integrating with third party.
• Experience with or knowledge of Microsoft Azure (or equivalent) infrastructure, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, network security groups, application gateways, virtual machines, databases, storage, backups, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and/or Bicep deployments.
• Strong preference for Chef
• Experience with the Microsoft ecosystem including Powershell is a plus