Senior DevOps Engineer

About the company

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 71,100 people.

Job summary

We are adding a Senior DevOps Engineer to our Infrastructure team. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

In this role you will

• Handle secrets with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault
• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts
• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched

About you

• Calm under pressure during outages
• Scripting in Bash and Python
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes

Preferred

• Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification
• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd

Perks and benefits

Expected salary range: $83.00 - $101.00/hr, plus bonus eligibility.

• Long-term engagement
• Annual rate review
• Monthly internet allowance
• Company laptop

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

No recruitment agencies, please.

Apply with your resume. A cover letter is optional.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

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