DevOps Engineer

New Context

(San Francisco, California)

Full Time Temp-to-Hire

Job Posting Details

About New Context

New Context is a rapidly growing consulting company in the heart of downtown San Francisco. We specialize in Lean Security: an approach that leads organizations to build better software thru hands-on technical and management consulting. We are a group of engineers who live and breath Agile Infrastructure, Systems Automation, Cloud Orchestration, and Information Security.

Summary

As a New Context DevOps Engineer you will be expected to provide technical leadership with a hands-on approach.

Responsibilities

On a daily basis you will be interfacing with our clients and other New Context team members while working from the New Context office, at client sites, or from your home. Expect to heavily leverage open source software to tackle challenges like delivery of highly secured containers to IoT devices or building Big Data ecosystems at petabyte scale and beyond.

Ideal Candidate

**Seasoned Technical Veteran**

* 5+ years work experience in a DevOps or Continuous Integration role
* Experience with highly available and high-performance open source web technologies
* Existing familiarity (or the eagerness to learn) Ruby and/or Python is helpful

**Excellent communication skills**

* Experience working with external clients and customers
* Translate complex concepts to business customers

**Team Player & Independent Thinker**

* You must be able to think on your feet, communicate constantly and professionally, and above all else meet the expectations of our clients.
* Ability to communicate productively with customers to explain the technical aspects and project status.

**Value Driven & Integrity**

At New Context, our core values are Humility, Integrity, Quality & Passion and this is lived by our employees every day!

**Technology we use:**

**Automation**

Chef, Puppet, Docker, Ansible, Salt, 
Automated Testing

**Containerization Ecosystem**

Docker, Mesosphere, Rancher, CoreOS, Kubernetes

**Cloud & Virtualization**

AWS, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack, Cloudstack, kvm, libvirt

**Tools**

Jenkins, Atlassian Suite, Pivotal Tracker, Vagrant, Git

**Monitoring**

SysDig, Data Dog, AppDynamics, New Relic, Nagios, Zabbix

**Databases/Datastores**

Cassandra, Hadoop, Redis, postgresql, MySQL

**Security**

Compliance standards, firewalls, scanners, OSSEC

**Languages**

Ruby, Python, GO

**Our Methodologies**

Agile, Lean, DevOps, TDD, pair programming

Seasoned Technical Veteran

5+ years work experience in a DevOps or Continuous Integration role
Experience with highly available and high-performance open source web technologies
Existing familiarity (or the eagerness to learn) Ruby and/or Python is helpful

Excellent communication skills

Experience working with external clients and customers
Translate complex concepts to business customers

Team Player & Independent Thinker

You must be able to think on your feet, communicate constantly and professionally, and above all else meet the expectations of our clients.
Ability to communicate productively with customers to explain the technical aspects and project status.

Value Driven & Integrity

At New Context, our core values are Humility, Integrity, Quality & Passion and this is lived by our employees every day!

Technology we use:

Automation

Chef, Puppet, Docker, Ansible, Salt, Automated Testing

Containerization Ecosystem

Docker, Mesosphere, Rancher, CoreOS, Kubernetes

Cloud & Virtualization

AWS, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack, Cloudstack, kvm, libvirt

Tools

Jenkins, Atlassian Suite, Pivotal Tracker, Vagrant, Git

Monitoring