Principal I, DevOps

Recruiter - Lorena Padilla

Position reports to: Medini Buragohain

The Principal I of DevOps Engineering acts as a technical expert, focusing on providing expertise, guidance, and support on solutions requiring deep technical experience in public cloud (GCP), Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Manage and administer the Google cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security
• Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Google cloud
• Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements
• Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions
• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging terraform to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop, maintain, and optimize infrastructure code using Terraform cloud to provision and manage cloud resources.
• Experience in creating and managing production scale Kubernetes clusters (GKE) and implement best practices.
• Support our Kubernetes based projects to resolve critical and complex technical issue.
• Design, build, and run elastic, cost-effective, resilient, robust, and secure architectures in the cloud using modern approaches like service-mesh and loosely coupled design
• Maintain, configure and monitor containers using Infrastructure as Code principles in Development, Test, and Live environments
• Implement Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment using different CI/CD tools such as cloud build, cloud deploy , Argo CD, and Azure DevOps.
• Deploy and configure Kubernetes clusters especially GKE using best practices.
• Monitor cluster health and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cluster issues.
• Implement security best practices, including RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).
• Manage SSL certificates and encryption settings.
• Monitor and optimize resource usage within the clusters.
• Scale clusters to meet application requirements.

• GCP experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization
• Expertise in IAC development with Terraform
• Experience with IAAS and PAAS solutions
• Proficient with GIT to perform source code management
• Experience with Terraform Cloud and CICD tooling
• Experience with Kubernetes administration (GKE)
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of Linux
• Understanding of observability, what is the key metrics to monitor, and how to establish a monitoring foundation.      
• Proficient in a wide variety of Cloud Native Services, and to an extent able to consult others.
• Familiar with programming paradigms and concepts like OOP, multi-threading, and idempotency.    
• Learning, and also sharing knowledge with others.

Certificates / Training:
•   Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) is a plus.
•   Azure/GCP/Hashicorp Certification is a plus.

Experience:

•   6 + years experience in DevOps/SRE with deep expertise in one area.
•   Experience with running Kubernetes clusters in production.

Education:

•   Bachelor's in Computer Science or an equivalent 

•   Preferred: Advanced Technical Degree.

 
Principles & Related Competencies:

Ethical
•   Complies with policies and procedures; Takes the high road and upholds our values; Maintains confidentiality; Acts with integrity, honesty and respect.

Leader
•   Communicates the big picture whether remotely or in-person, connecting the dots globally and overcoming obstacles; Gives and receives frequent feedback, learns, teaches, encourages information sharing and cooperation among teams; Celebrates the individual and the team; Ability to clearly communicate.

Collaborative
•   Communicates the big picture whether remotely or in-person, connecting the dots globally and overcoming obstacles; Gives and receives frequent feedback, learns, teaches, encourages information sharing and cooperation among teams; Celebrates the individual and the team; Ability to clearly communicate.

Looks Beyond Oneself
•   (Team Leader) Demonstrates humility through servant leadership by thinking about what can I do as a leader to help you achieve your goals; Develops a vision (strategy) and sets goals and targets, fostering an environment which encourages achievement; Inspires and influences people to work together cohesively and enthusiastically engages with them; Welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and ideas; Values Distributors and teammates.

Drives Innovation
•   Add value through: Driving opportunities for all 3 types of innovation (incremental, evolutionary or disruptive); Proposing ideas and creative solutions to employee, distributor and/or customer challenges; Celebrating and learning from failures and successes, willing to experiment and take educated risks making decisions based on facts & data; Welcoming other’s ideas and suggestions and acting on them.

Delivers Change
•   Delivers Change Through: Experiencing and leading change; Understanding Herbalife Nutrition’s business; Creating a sense of urgency for delivering business benefits; Flexibility and openness to change.