Stratascale Senior Consulting DevOps Engineer - GCP

$180,000 - $240,000/Yr

Shi International Ltd - Pierre, SD

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Pierre, SD

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 within the Fortune 1000. This position requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to ensure the successful execution of agile projects. You will report directly to the Manager of Digital Professional Services within the Stratascale department. This role is fully remote, with a home office setup as determined by Stratascale management. Stratascale is a digital and cybersecurity services company dedicated to helping Fortune 1000 companies transform their technology usage to advance their business, generate revenue, and respond swiftly to market demands. We refer to this capability as Digital Agility. As a Senior Consulting DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and implementing scalable and robust solutions using cloud-native services, implementing DevOps/DevSecOps platforms, and ensuring security best practices throughout the CI/CD supply chain. 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. You will also integrate third-party tools like OKTA with DevOps CI/CD pipelines and plan large-scale application migrations to public cloud environments. Your role will involve collaborating with client stakeholders to understand their technical needs and translating them into user stories and detailed requirements, all while adhering to a defined Statement of Work (SOW). Additionally, you will provide technical leadership to junior engineers and contribute to the continuous enhancement of development practices.

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.
• Experience with SRE practices and integration of 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 at multiple levels 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 (internal and partner) on best practices, well-architected principles, and cloud service capabilities/limitations with ownership of the overall quality of the delivered solution.
• 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.

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