Devops

• As a member of the Enterprise DevOps Cloud Foundations Team, the Senior Technical Lead partners with Development, QA, Security, and Operations to enable the migration and end-to-end DevOps lifecycle for Cloud-based services and platforms.
• Drive alignment between development, testing, security, and operational policies & standards across the DevOps lifecycle.
• Implement best practice software design patterns for modularity, simplicity, composability, and maintainability.
• Demonstrate through daily communication, practice and personal example how DevOps practices speed delivery, improve quality, enable innovation, and simplify operations to further the DevOps culture as an agent of change.
• Thrive in a collaborative DevOps approach when designing, building, and implementing solutions that improve DaVita’s patient care offerings.
• Identify and act on opportunities to improve and automate processes, systems, and code when proposing solutions, self organizing work, and forming virtual teams.
• Ensure the design, implementation, and ongoing management of systems meet requirements for functionality, scalability, performance, efficiency, and reliability.
• Work closely with strategic planning groups to provide technology direction that achieves the business vision.
• Create capabilities enabling proactive operations for pre-production and production environments.
• Able to make practical decisions balancing DevOps goals with business delivery needs.
• As the Senior Technical Leader for Cloud Foundations, drive DevOps culture change, automation architecture & patterns, cloud technical design, delivery flow, implementation best practices, mentor DevOps Engineers, and enabling operational improvements.

Skills:

•  Hand-on experience and proficiency with DevOps and Cloud Experience in either of the Major Cloud Service providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• 4 + years of experience in Terraform - extensive knowledge of designing and implementation of terraform resources & modules.  Would like to avoid candidates who have just used the terraform scripts built by other teams.  
• Kubernetes knowledge.
• Cloud Network Design - Networking concepts including hybrid network design
• Experience as technical lead for cloud design, automation, and DevOps practices
• Extensive experience managing IT Infrastructure automation using terraform.
• Cloud Security exposure
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows
• Modern CI/CD processes and tooling ( Jenkins, GitlabCI etc.,)
• Kubernetes Orchestration and containerized workload management
• Identity Based Cloud Security for Public and Private services
• Cloud Operations tools including monitoring and logging.
• Cloud-native and hybrid-Cloud implementations.
• Enterprise Cloud migration background preferably with heterogeneous applications.
• Microservice delivery and operations enablement
• Relational and NoSQL databases
• Design for HA and Disaster Recovery
• Prior experience with successful Agile techniques in a DevOps context.
• Ability to work with and lead a team and coordinate efforts between onshore & offshore teams.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
• Software development experience including software design patterns and techniques.
• Data Pipeline design and automation
• Good knowledge of any of the scripting language such as Ruby or Python

Must have skills

• Terraform: Would like someone with extensive knowledge of designing and implementation of terraform resources & modules.  Would like to avoid candidates who have just used the terraform scripts built by other teams.  
• Advanced knowledge of either of the Major Cloud Service providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Kubernetes knowledge.