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ID #15314829
State Oregon
City Portland
Job type Contract
Salary USD $50 - $80 hr 50 - 80 hr
Source Aditi Staffing LLC
Showed 2021-06-10
Date 2021-06-09
Deadline 2021-08-08
Category Et cetera
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DevOps Automation Engineer - III

Oregon, Portland, 97203 Portland USA

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Devops Engineer, 5G Innovation & Emergency Management(see attached doc for formatted version)

About the parent organizations.

Skyward is the leader in enterprise drone management solutions and cellular connected aeronautical products. Within Skyward, the Aviation Development Centers Department (Client)supports airborne product development for Skyward and Client's product groups,provides flight operations management for Skyward,and hosts Client'ss drone and connected aircraft standards organization.Within the Client, we manage various facilities, deployable assets, drones, airborne connectivity equipment, and IT/cellular assets for the company. As part of this, we design and oversee the buildout of regional, facility-level, and cloud infrastructure for supporting low latency, high bandwidth use cases bringing together autonomous robots, edge compute, and remote participants.

About the role.

Stand up the Clients software infrastructure for deploying containerized applications to cloud, edge compute, and onboard environments. Onboard environments may be aerial robots, terrestrial robots, rugged field vehicles, boats, and more.Support development and maintenance of Portland-area edge compute resources, in conjunction with networking & IT experts.Work with other Skyward and Client's ops teams on cross-department best practices.In some cases, pivot quickly toward new Proof of Concept/Principle projects.In some cases, continue improving existing process to build overall department capability, readiness, and security.

Responsibilities

As a technical lead and project support lead.Work with managers and fellow engineers to distill stakeholder requirements into project-appropriate ops support.Help design the Clients infrastructure and processes for information security, systems security, and equipment firmware/software upgrade.Work with Skywards core ops team to identify Infrastructure a Code (IaC) tooling and best practices that will benefit the Client.Identify other IaC and automation needed by the Client.Define and track KPIs related to performance of edge compute, uptime and reliability of long-running systems, overall system security, and level of automation.Participate in architecture of Client-facility-to-region network connections (network appliances, subnets, bandwidth requirements, etc.).

As a devops engineer.

Implement IaC tooling and best practices needed by the Client.Using this IaC tooling, automate deployment, redundancy, and scaling of software services.Implement the Clients infrastructure and process for information security, and equipment firmware/software upgrade.Participate in setup and maintenance of traffic routing and network security appliances at Client facilities.Participate in deployment of software to far edge devices, such as drones or ground-based sensor packages. Automate this deployment to the extent possible.

Travel Required:

Travel. Travel should be less than 50% and mostly within the local area. Travel may be required to support field operations or to attend technical events outside the local area. Travel commitment is similar regardless of whether the employee lives in/near Yacolt or in/near Portland.

Logistics.

The Client operates on a 7:30 am - 3:30 pm PST schedule, with occasional variance for travel and projects.

Must Have:

7+ years total experience in the devops space, OR a combination of software engineering and devops.2+ years demonstrable experience as a devops subject matter expert or team lead responsible for planning and tracking of work.BS in computer science, computer engineering, other similar technical degree, or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

2+ years experience supporting projects that combine cloud-hosted software with custom on-premise hardware and networking.AND/OR2+ years experience supporting projects that combine cloud-hosted software with edge resources such as a native mobile application or IoT sensor.

Technical Requirements:

Proficiency using Jira or a similar workflow tool with a high level of attention to detail in ensuring process efficiency.Proficiency with automation via IaC tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.Proficiency with cloud deployment via AWS or a similar provider.Proficiency in security best practices for cloud software deployment.Proficiency in using modern source control (Git, Mercurial, etc.) and source control methodologies (Git-flow, etc.).Proficiency in Linux environments.Proficiency with a scripting-oriented language such as python, OR proficiency with an ops-friendly language such as Go.Proficiency in writing and maintaining living documentation with tools like Confluence.Some background supporting embedded, IoT, native mobile, or another space involving end user / far edge devices.Some background in physical networking; familiarity with switches, routers, firewalls, VLANs, subnets, etc.

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