Stratascale Senior Consulting DevOps Engineer - GCP

$180,000 - $240,000/Yr

Shi International Ltd - Jackson, MS

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Jackson, MS

Furniture, Home Furnishings, Electronics, and Appliance Retailers

About the position

As a Senior Consulting DevOps Engineer at Stratascale, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality solutions tailored to meet the unique requirements of our clients in the Fortune 1000. This position requires a collaborative approach, working closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to ensure the successful execution of agile projects. You will be responsible for architecting and implementing scalable and robust solutions using cloud-native services, as well as implementing DevOps and DevSecOps platforms. Your extensive experience at the enterprise level with tools such as Terraform and GitLab will be crucial in authoring bespoke modules, managing state, and implementing best practices for code reviews and quality gates. In this role, you will also focus on security best practices within the CI/CD supply chain, integrating third-party tools like OKTA with DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring the scalability of runner environments for CI/CD. You will be expected to plan and execute large-scale multi-workload application migrations to the public cloud, collaborating directly with client stakeholders to understand their technical needs and translating them into user stories and detailed requirements. Utilizing the GCP cloud platform, you will architect and deploy solutions that are scalable, secure, and highly available, while providing technical leadership to junior engineers on best practices and cloud service capabilities. Your responsibilities will also include identifying opportunities for process improvements, developing reusable blueprints and templates to streamline client projects, and staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation within the team. This position is remote, allowing for a home office setup as determined by Stratascale management, and reports to the Manager of Digital Professional Services within the Stratascale department.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and implementing scalable and robust solutions using cloud-native services.
• Implementing DevOps/DevSecOps platforms.
• Extensive experience at the enterprise level with Terraform, including authoring bespoke modules, leveraging variables, and management of state.
• Extensive experience at the enterprise level with GitLab, including implementing best practices for branching mechanisms, pull/merge request flows, code reviews, and quality gates.
• Applying security best practices with CI/CD supply chain, with in-depth knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment & Delivery, and Release features.
• Integrating third-party tools like OKTA with DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Managing scalable runner environments for CI/CD.
• Applying SRE practices and integrating DevOps with observability tools.
• Planning and executing large-scale multi-workload application migrations to Public Cloud following multiple migration patterns (e.g., Rehost, Re-platform, Refactor).
• Collaborating directly with client stakeholders to understand their technical needs and translating them into user stories and detailed requirements while operating within the bounds of a defined Statement of Work (SOW).
• Utilizing GCP cloud platform to architect and deploy solutions that are scalable, secure, and highly available.
• Providing technical leadership to junior engineers on best practices, well-architected principles, and cloud service capabilities/limitations.
• Identifying opportunities for process improvements and contributing to the continuous enhancement of development practices.
• Developing reusable blueprints, templates, scaffolding, and runbooks to streamline and automate common repeated activities and solutions in client projects.
• Staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation within the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years minimum experience in cloud, platform engineering, DevOps, and operations with a proven track record building complex applications for clients.
• Strong understanding of cloud services architecture, design patterns, and best practices on the GCP platform.
• Extensive experience authoring Terraform cloud automation code.
• Extensive experience with GitLab and CI/CD processes and integrations.
• Deep hands-on technical experience building bespoke infrastructure automation solutions using Terraform.
• Deep hands-on technical experience with GitLab including architecting solutions for clients, migration planning & execution, code review and approvals, integration with 3rd party tools and security best practices.
• Deep hands-on technical skills with the GCP cloud platform including configuration management, architecture, migration planning and execution, cloud native application design, cloud networking, etc.

Nice-to-haves

• Additional experience with other repository systems (GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience in several of the following domains: Cloud governance, Cloud cost optimization/FinOps, Observability experience, including monitoring, IT operations management, CMDB, SRE, etc.
• Containerization (Kubernetes, Packer, Docker).
• Event streaming and API management.
• Application modernization/application development in Java, .NET, or other major enterprise language, with experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP native services (e.g., functions, managed databases).
• Familiarity with one or more databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, Cassandra.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401K
• Flexible spending account
• Paid time off
• Remote work options