Location: Remote or On-Site at Corporate Headquarters in Burnsville, MN or Troy, MI
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and drive the development and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and other DevOps technologies, with a strong preference for candidates who have experience software development at some point in their career.
In this role, you will work closely with software engineers, SREs, and security teams to automate, scale, and enhance our cloud-based environments. You will play a critical role in optimizing CI/CD workflows, ensuring system reliability, and improving developer productivity.
Being a consulting company, we wear a lot of hats – at times, we are doing DevOps automation, at other times we may also do maintenance or development of software systems (we are seeing a large demand in using AI to automate business practices). The ideal candidate would be comfortable learning and working on new tools and technologies and working on several projects or clients at once (though we are careful not to over-book team members, it is common to support a few fractional clients).
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration management with Ansible.
- Deploy, monitor, and maintain Kubernetes clusters and applications running in Kubernetes clusters in cloud or hybrid environments.
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and improve developer experience.
- Ensure system reliability, availability, and security through monitoring, logging, and incident response best practices.
- Collaborate with software engineers to improve DevOps workflows and best practices or assist in tuning applications to improve performance and scaleability.
- Optimize cloud resource utilization to balance performance, cost, and scalability.
- Troubleshoot production issues across services and infrastructure, applying observability and debugging techniques.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and performance optimization efforts.
- At times, wear a software developer hat doing bugfixes or building solutions (possibly with AI tooling), though most of the work is expected to be around DevOps more than software development.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles. 7+ years of varied projects and experiences for a principle level resource.
- Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Expertise in Ansible or other configuration management tools.
- Hands-on experience managing applications on Kubernetes in production environments (or similar Platform-as-a-service tools).
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps methodologies, and DevOps best practices.
- Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, or GCP.
- Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes-native tools.
- Knowledge of networking concepts, security best practices, and system monitoring.
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
- Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for automation and efficiency.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience as a full-stack software developer (even if not recent) because most systems we work with involve custom software and understanding how the pieces fit together is required to triage incidents.
- Experience working with microservices architectures.
- Knowledge of relational (Oracle DB, SQL Server, Postgres, etc) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop).
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or API gateways.
- Familiarity with security tools and compliance frameworks.
Why Join Us?
- Diverse Work – Working on projects for different clients and different tech stacks will mean exposure to many new things as well as interesting work.
- Innovative Environment – Work with a diverse global team with diverse skills and experiences.
- Career Growth – Opportunities for mentorship, training, and leadership development.
- Flexible Work Environment – Hybrid or remote work options available as well as on-site.
- Competitive Compensation & Benefits – Rate varies based upon skills level and experience. We are considering both senior level and principle level resources for this position.
If you are passionate about DevOps, cloud automation, and building scalable, reliable systems, we’d love to hear from you!
Top Skills
What We Do
Centroid has been in business for over 20 years and is exclusively focused on Oracle technologies. As an Oracle Platinum Partner, and Specialized Partner for multiple years for North America in both Engineered Systems and Technology, we have the experts that others turn to for best practices in Oracle applications, technology and hardware implementations. Our relentless pursuit of providing the best solutions is a testament to and clear advantage to our success and yours, which is why our first customer is still with us today.
Centroid understands how to deploy Oracle in the Cloud and assess, plan and navigate the right path to the Cloud for your business. We know how to best migrate and manage your workloads on-premise or in the Cloud and can maximize your Oracle investment and provide your business with tightly integrated, comprehensive, and superior services.
From strategic planning to application deployment and support, Centroid is committed to helping clients realize measurable business value and achieve sustainable ROI. Centroid invests continuously to cultivate and attract top industry talent. We use best of breed delivery methods and stay true to our collaborative, client-focused style. The result for our clients is real and measurable value.
Reap the benefits by leveraging our expertise, methods, tools and processes across numerous customer implementations and diverse industries and geographies. Our professional delivery team makes you successful every step of the way.
Specialties
Oracle Consulting Services, Consulting and Cloud Managed Services, Oracle Infrastructure Solutions, Centroid Cloud Advisors, Cloud Migrator, Cloud Manager
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