Position: DevOps Engineer (GCP)
Company: SoftServe
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our Cloud & DevOps team comprises more than 100 people. We take full ownership and leadership in implementation projects to ensure the quality of the results we deliver to our clients. And with Support and SRE part of our group, we provide the end-to-end customer experience and high satisfaction in the post-implementation phase.
We focus on our client’s success and we're not afraid to step into the challenge.
We have developed a customer-trusted relationship and a strong partnership with Google, Amazon, Azure, VMware, Red Hat, and HashiCorp. Being a part of the international community, we participate in major worldwide events (Google Next, Google Cloud Meetups, Microsoft Build, Microsoft Ignite, AWS Summits, AWS DevDays, and more).
As a part of GCP Team, you will help design, incubate, and ramp up capabilities for delivering GCP and Hybrid Cloud solutions. With us, you will participate in cloud-oriented projects of different sizes and scales. This includes migrations, consulting, cloud-enabling, helping to onboard new opportunities into our company, spreading the expertise and professional culture across the organization.

YOU ARE
A person who establishes proper project planning and execution verifies team deliverables and presents these deliverables to the client and
— Communicates with client technical details and approaches, presents services, expertise, joins pre-sales team
— Performs designing, planning workloads, provisioning, monitoring, testing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure according to best practices and project specifications
— Tracks and resolves technical challenges in complex solutions
— Participates in technical pre-sales activities (knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, discovery and assessments, technical proposal preparation)
— Defines specifications and requirements for solutions
— Develops technological approaches for software applications
— Provides concise estimations of efforts required for project implementation
— Provides input on schedule definition and accomplishes tasks in compliance with the schedule defined by a technical management
— Defines the current state and desired state of the solution, assists in defining the architecture vision and roadmap
— Takes responsibility and supervises the implementation of the solution as defined by the architecture vision
— Creates or assists with creating development environments efficiently

Desired skills and experience include
— Proper understanding of DevOps
— Designing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.)
— Kubernetes
— Terraform and solid background of Infrastructure as Code (principles, tools, best practices)
— Excellence with GCP and proven experience in working and configuring major PaaS/IaaS services: (GCE, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Networking: VPCs, Load-balancers, Cloud DNS, Cloud VPN, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions)
— 2+ years with Linux Operating System experience
— Deploying, monitoring, and administration of SQL/NoSQL DB
— Creation of technical specifications or architecture visions covering quality attributes, diagrams, associated risks, technical and system requirements
— Proven expertise in leading/guiding teams of engineers to drive them, decompose the complexity to tasks, mentor them and back-up if needed, communicate and convince around that or another decision
— Good experience with design, monitoring, and gathering metrics platforms

YOU WANT TO WORK WITH
— Participating in architectural service executions such as Discovery, Assessment, and Architectural Project Support
— Leading engineering teams to implement the solution guided by the defined architecture vision
— Talking to the business to understand business and technical requirements for the project. Communicating technical constraints and decisions to the business
— Elaborating system quality attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, fault-tolerance, security, deployment, maintainability, and others
— Translating customers’ business, functional, and non-functional requirements into high-quality solution design visions and operations plan consistent with enterprise architectural standards using Attribute Driven Design
— Defining application/data/infrastructure delivery strategies, standards, processes, technologies, and tools in the technical visions
— Driving or assisting in project implementation estimation and roadmap construction
— Analyzing, modeling, documenting, and assessing existing delivery processes according to the Architecture Trade-off Analysis methodology

TOGETHER WE WILL
— Work with Excel at Cloud technologies and next-gen Hybrid Platforms
— Provide our knowledge, while testing and developing our technical capabilities during project discoveries and workshops
— Give you access to innovative tools and technologies and the ability to try them out on different projects and initiatives
— Share our expertise and build our community’s strength through educational programs
— Be able to work with industry-leading professionals who are always ready to help and mentor you through any difficulties, including training from top Solution Architects
— Provide are technical expertise and knowledge to consult clients through the project enrollment
— Work with the company’s Top DevOps architects who will help to build your own way to the top