DevOps Specialist (remote)

About us

Velvetech is an international company, based in the US, with 20+ years of experience in software and hardware development for clients all around the world, especially for US clients. As an official Microsoft Gold Partner, our company is listed in the top 5 software development companies in Illinois, USA.

US clients are leading trading and financial organizations, insurance companies, large healthcare associations, pharmaceutical and energy companies, equipment manufacturers, hi-tech startups, etc.

Now we are looking for a DevOps Specialist for our Client. The Client’s company is focused on leveraging artificial intelligence to support agents in realtime by providing precisely the information they need to exceed customer expectations and deliver top-notch experiences. Join us on our mission to help agents, clients, and entire organizations capitalize on every opportunity through highly personal conversations. By pairing the crucial elements of a human touch with machine intelligence, we are able to increase performance, boost job satisfaction, and drive lasting results.

Responsibilities

A successful fit for this role would be someone with recent experience leading DevOps efforts, proven team leadership background, and great communication skills. You will work fully remotely from the coziness of your home by communicating directly with Engineers and clients to develop and implement new end-user solutions that address current business needs.

• Review and improve the existing Azure Terraform template for 1 application environment
• Re-deploy a staging and Production environment
• Change some Azure services (e.g. move from Kafka )
• Assist in improving the overall Azure cloud architecture as SMEs
• Create Ansible playbooks to manage environments
• Write Terraform for K8s Cluster deployment for application and assist in Azure deployment of application and migration
• Improve our ELK usage both in terms of performance, cost, data redaction & management, and RBAC

Requirements

• BS degree in an associated field or other advanced certification along with equivalent experience
• Strong IaC design and implementation skills
• Strong Terraform experience
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana
• Hashicorp Consul and Vault experience (preferred)
• Splunk, ServiceNow
• Jenkins, Drone.io, Agro CI/CD technologies
• Solid DevOps integration experience
• Good grasp on DevOps and Agile
• ELK Admin with Logstash experience
• Familiar with Harness.io for K8s deployments as a “nice to have skill”

Benefits

• Velvetech is in the TOP 5 development companies in Illinois, USA
• You have FLEXIBLE working conditions and a COOPERATIVE environment
• A COMPETITIVE and performance-based salary, fair compensation and benefits
• Many CHALLENGING and exciting projects with new opportunities and learning
• GROWTH opportunities, skills and competencies improvement, and professional certification
• In-company TRAINING (English, Software / DevOps / Project management / Design / Business)

Our team

We are a friendly team of 150+ professionals where everyone is able to achieve high results and grows professionally not only due to their own knowledge and skills but also with the support of colleagues. Values that we highly appreciate are high performance, responsibility, respect, and loyalty. In order to have a highly motivated team, Velvetech invests in their people, additional education, certification, and others. You choose your career path and we are here to support you!

People work together in harmony, encouraging each other to continuously learn, progress, and pursue perfection. Our employees enjoy working as we turn challenges into advantages to share success with each other.

You have a chance to become a part of a friendly and professional team that creates robust software solutions to deliver maximum value to our international clients.