Staff Engineer - DevOps

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Position Description

Vocera now part of Stryker is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer. You will play a key role as part of our DevOps team, developing primarily on the AWS and Azure platforms, as well as designing and implementing infrastructure as code for private/public cloud. You will be responsible for maintaining existing and new configuration management code and infrastructure. You will manage the day to day-to-day operations of different SaaS products externally as well as internally. We believe in the automation of operational tasks and are seeking an operational engineer with a developer mindset. You will work on a small team so the ability to learn quickly and work independently is essential for this role. This position reports to the Senior Manager, DevOps.

What you will do:

• Develop long-term operational plans, multi-region growth, and high availability implementation.
• Configure and administer production environments in AWS.
• Develop scripts to auto-deploy and manage configurations.
• Upgrade live applications with minimum downtime, Canary/Red-Blue Deployments
• Collaborate effectively with Engineering and other key stakeholders to negotiate necessary code changes.
• Support Engineering in the management and upgrade of the Dev, QA environment
• Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot operational issues, and upgrade infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, databases, and web servers)
• Harden and secure production environment; manage access to production.
• Manage new customer provisioning, issue-tracking workflows, and their implementation.
• Investigate, integrate, or develop tools to automate tasks.
• Develop and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, security, patching, and auditing for Windows and Linux-based software stack.

Who we want:

• Strong automation mindset, operational rigor, attention to detail, and ability to collaborate with key stakeholders in Engineering, Support, and Product Management
• Demonstrated use of metrics and usage data analysis to generate new requirements and analyze defects for cloud-hosted solutions.
• Able to demonstrate past accomplishments in developing consumer-grade automation using configuration management tools.
• Resourceful, able to solve complex problems through adaptation of technology using online and team resources.
• Doer Mindset – Ability to independently execute against deadlines.
• Passionate about DevOps, strong Linux background, and modern DevOps toolset

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering/ computer science or related discipline & 6+ years of work experience maintaining applications and services on AWS utilizing services such as EC2, S3, Route53, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, and Azure services (a plus) including at least 3 years in a DevOps role.

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

• Deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes (AWS EKS / Kops)
• Deploying microservices through automation using Helm.
• Ansible for configuration management / Infrastructure automation CI/CD (Blue/Green or Canary) experience with tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• Experience as a software engineer working on enterprise/cloud/web/SaaS.
• Strong knowledge of networking solutions with pfSense and Palo Alto.
• Experience with Open-Source DevOps tools for metrics-based monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana), Log aggregation (Loki), Container Management (Docker, or similar), Escalations Management (PagerDuty, or similar)
• Deep understanding of system automation, scripting, and deployment tools, including Python / Ansible / Terraform
• Demonstrated experience with Databases MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB
• On Call work as needed
• Travel may be required.

Travel Percentage: None