Senior DevOps Engineer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. We started in 2010 and have grown to about 520 people.

Overview

CKG Cloud has an opening for a Senior DevOps Engineer. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. Our headquarters is in Frisco, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Duties

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Set up monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch.
• Track and reduce cloud spend with tagging, budgets and rightsizing.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection.

Required qualifications

• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting in Bash and Python.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production.
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Calm under pressure during outages.
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills.
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management.

Nice to have

• Argo CD or Flux for GitOps.
• Background in software development.

Benefits

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual rate review.
• Paid time off.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at CKG Cloud.