Senior Cloud Engineer
Kirkland, WA

Job Description

Are you interested in expanding and rounding out your cloud skills with Google Cloud Platform expertise? If you haven't worked with this technology yet, this is a great opportunity to add it to your skillset. We pay for your GCP certification and give you a cash bonus as well.

Nortal (previously Dev9) is a global consulting firm hiring full-time, permanent employees. Our teams are small and highly collaborative, and focus on cloud modernization. We've been a leader in this space for years, and are experts who believe in always being innovative and that automation equals nirvana. If you feel the same way, we should chat.

Right now we are looking for somebody to help implement and set up a prototype for the cloud infrastructure (no hybrid work) using Kubernetes at an enterprise level organization that's going to change the very way healthcare works. This is a unique opportunity to be on a very cool project. Plus you get certified on our dime!

What makes us unique:

* We don't just build software; we approach development as a well-honed craft.
* We are experts who believe in being innovative while having fun, and working continuously to refine our skills.
* We are committed to excellence in everything we do, from the technology we choose to the people who make up our team. With excellence as a guiding principle, we deliver quality results that ensure client satisfaction.
* We approach work with integrity. We do what we say we'll do, and we operate with transparency and honesty.
* We work cohesively and see each person at Nortal as a critical contributor. We prize teamwork, and support each other in providing the best results for our clients. No one on our team is superior to another - we help each other out, in the spirit of personal growth.
* We don't deploy into infrastructure, we build with infrastructure

Why should you join?

* Keep your skills fresh by working with some of the newest technologies and tools out there
* Join a small, highly collaborative team with growth opportunities
* Many client engagements each bringing new challenges and opportunities for growth

Your responsibilities:

* Automate deployment, monitoring, management and incident responseDevelop and improve operational practices and procedures
* Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance, such as ISO, SOX, SSAE 16, etc.Collaboration with on-shore and off-shore teams (both client and internal)Interfacing and facilitating the successful completion of Rehosting and Replatforming client projects including identifying, communicating and delivering on Milestones throughout implementation
* Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, take ownership for user stories, development tasks and testing
* Mentorship of junior team members
* Cloud Experience:
* Automation related to ensuring the infrastructure state (We use Ansible, Terraform, Helm & CloudEndure).
* Automated building of Containers, Machine Images & Baked VMs
* Multiple deployment styles including rolling deployments, blue/green and canary buildsWide-area, shared and networked Persistent disk management with disaster recovery optionsMonitoring and measurement (Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, SysDig, StackDriver, SumoLogic, Splunk)Disaster Recovery vs. Redundancy scenariosMulti-zone and Multi-region

Qualifications:

* Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Systems Management (or equivalent work experience)
* Proven leadership experience - on teams and out in the technical community7+ years operations support deploying web services/web applications experience
* 3+ years of experience hands-on and managing teams of DevOps or SysAdminsProficient with Python or GolangCloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure, private cloud) using networking, firewalls, compute machines, multiple storage technologies and managed services
* Experience with SSH configuration and key managementExperience building and delivering containers for applications (e.g. rkt, cri-o, Docker)
* Experience with container orchestration (Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker Compose)Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Google Deployment Manager, CloudFormation, etc)
* User-level familiarity with modern build experience tools such as Maven/SBT/Grunt/Webpack/npm and familiar with continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity) systemsStrong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques
* Very comfortable with Linux & Network administration including load balancing, routing, firewalls, VPNExperienced with disaster recovery and understanding of high availabilityStrong understanding of project lifecycle and deliveryExperience using CAP Theorem (Consistency, Availability and Partitioning) to configure systems

Preferred Qualifications:

* DevOps experience (e.g. Ansible, Kubernetes, Mesos)
* Experience setting up new Google Cloud Platform projectsNoSQL experience (e.g. MongoDB)
* Good communication skills to convey technical and project status to multiple audiences
* Comfortable describing how applications and cloud interact with the various OSI levels
* Experience working with certificates & encryption methods for TLS and static encryption

In October 2018 Nortal Group acquired Dev9, a Seattle-based software development consultancy specializing in cloud modernization. The acquisition bolsters Nortal group's expansion strategy in the U.S. and enhances global services offerings with expertise in big data and cloud transformation. As one of the top North American AWS Advanced and Google Cloud Premier partners, Dev9 delivers innovation through software development rooted in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), automation and cloud.

See more http://nortal.com

Let's have a chat!

Kate London

Kate.London@nortal.com