Devops (freelance)

Realcommerce is looking for a promising and brilliant DevOps cloud engineer contractor for joining our dev-ops group.
If you have the skills to work independently within a cutting edge DevOps team, respond to multiple requests in a dynamic and intensive work environment - come and join us to make the world a safer place!
*Commitment for 6 months*
 
Major Responsibilities
Act as a DevOps Engineer, be part of a highly skillful team, responsible for large scale operation from development to production activity
Design, develop, and maintain Avanan's CI/CD solution (including OS, container, cloud orchestration and end-to-end automation)
Implement tools and procedures for monitoring, deployment, and alerting for our SaaS multi-tenant product family.
Be part of a large scale transition of a highly complex system into a highly secured environment subject to strict regulation.
Continuously improve our cloud infrastructure; making it fault-tolerant and easy to deploy, scale, and secure.
Plan capacity, stabilize, and improve the performance of the application infrastructure with cost and scale in mind.
Form and shape our monitoring and logging solution array.
Do all the above with top-notch cloud infrastructure security in mind.
 
Desired Background
Hands-on – we all write code on a daily basis!
3+ years of relevant DevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines for development teams and production pipelines - a must
3+ years AWS Cloud experience for high traffic systems and multiple services (EC2, S3, ECR, ELK, Auorora, RDS, ES, Route53) - a must
Solid scripting skills (Python fluent) - a must
Experience with containers and orchestration tools (Docker & Kubernetes or ECS) - a must
Experience with CI integration tools like Jenkins
Experience with AWS CloudFormation – an advantage
Experience with a wide variety of open-source technologies like Kafka, Redis, Nagios etc.
Knowledge of best practices relating to security, performance, monitoring.
Experience with server configuration automation (Ansible)
Proven ability to research new technologies and tools, critically evaluating them through proof of concepts and cost analysis