DevOps Engineer

Job description

Valorem Reply is an award-winning digital transformation firm focused on delivering solutions around data-driven enterprise, IT modernization, customer experience, product transformation and digital workplace by leveraging the power of Microsoft technologies.  We provide hyper-scale and agile delivery of unique digital business services, strategic business models and design-led user experiences. Our innovative strategies and solutions securely and rapidly transform the way our clients do business. We are hiring a DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and scale cloud-native infrastructure supporting enterprise-grade applications. This role will own Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platform operations in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate brings strong automation discipline and experience operating production-grade distributed systems. ### Responsibilities - Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters in production environments - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support secure and repeatable deployments - Implement and manage service mesh architectures using Istio - Administer and optimize Google Cloud Platform infrastructure - Integrate Jira workflows into development and release processes - Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve reliability, performance, and security - Collaborate with engineering teams to implement infrastructure as code and automation standards - Additional duties as required ### Minimum Requirements - 3 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering - 2 years of hands-on Kubernetes administration in production environments - 2 years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines - 2 years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 2 years of experience implementing and managing Istio service mesh - Experience administering Jira for engineering workflow management ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform or similar) - Experience with container security and vulnerability management - Experience supporting microservices-based architectures - Google Cloud Professional certification - Experience operating highly available distributed systems