DevOps Engineer-Denver, CO

DevOps Engineer Location: Denver, CO Rate: $42/hr. on W2 Position Type: Contract Interview Process: Phone followed by F2F US Citizen, Green Card and GC EAD Scope: Design, recommend, develop, evaluate and implement automation of technical systems infrastructure solutions to support development and deployment of advanced IP video technologies and services. Provide systems level configuration management via industry standard tools such as puppet. Lead configuration management of infrastructure domains. Design and maintain automation and configuration management for large-scale fault tolerant and distributed virtual machine and container farms supporting various advanced IP video engineering teams. Engineer automated deployment and support management solutions for UCS and VMWare systems in lab and production environments. Engineer automated deployment and support management solutions for generic compute and kubernetes systems in lab and production environments. Skills: At least 6 years of experience installing, configuring and managing linux based systems and applications via automation and configuration management tools such as puppet. Experience with a variety of unix/linux scripting languages including python, perl, bash Experienced with DNS, DHCP, PXE and Apache/HTTP Experience with blade server architectures and generic compute platforms Working knowledge of VMWare 5/6 Working knowledge of CoreOS/Docker/Kubernetes Working knowledge of Openstack Experienced with NAS/NFS/Object storage technologies Working knowledge of networking concepts (VLAN, TCP/IP, Multicast, Unicast, OSI) Understanding on how to scale systems depending on load Proficiency with working knowledge of data center operations Good communicator and able to clearly articulate complex issues and technologies Ability to propose systems design improvements High attention to detail and strong ability to problem solve systems issues Willing to take ownership of problems and see them through to resolution Comfortable working in a fast paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to moving targets. Working knowledge of CI/CD methodologies.