Sunbird ( an established leader in Data Center Infrastructure Management, is looking for a Lead Development Operations Engineer to provide their expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift and Containerization as we scale out our solution. Our award-winning web-based solutions help our customers understand and manage energy consumption, environmental conditions, and assets in their facilities.

Current Application Stack: Angular, Tomcat, Rails, ActiveMQ, Redis, and PostgreSQL

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead both the migration of our solution to containers and the overall design and implementation for container orchestrators such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
• Create and maintain docker files, manifest files, and HELM Charts for different environments/orchestrators.
• Manage builds and deployments.
• Deploy new clusters from scratch and upgrade/maintain existing ones.
• Lead junior team members effectively.
• Work closely with our cross-functional team to achieve scalability and reliability objectives.
• Provide support as our customers roll the solution out to their environments.
• Effectively troubleshoot operating system issues, configuration problems, authentication errors, and related software defects.
• Automate operations such as backup/restores, deployments, and upgrades.
• Follow security best practices.
• Identify potential technical obstacles and come up with solutions.
• Evaluate third-party technologies to make recommendations for architecture roadmap.
• Ability to keep up with industry trends and innovation.
• Follow Sunbird’s software development process to participate in the full software development life cycle.

Qualifications:

• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or similar.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience on Kubernetes or OpenShift and have been involved in all facets of configuration and deployments in prior positions.
• Expert on Containerization (Docker preferred).
• Experience in Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) (Jenkins/Nexus/GitHub).
• 7+ years of professional experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• Creative, industrious, self-managed.
• Excels when working as part of a small, highly skilled, agile team.
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Desired Knowledge and Skills:

A candidate with a mix of the following experiences will be at an advantage:

• Experience in Java, Tomcat, and database configurations.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux system administration.
• Knowledge in the administration and performance tuning of web/application servers (e.g., Tomcat, Puma, Istio, NGINX).
• Development experience in Perl, Ruby, and/or Java.
• AWS
  • Experience maintaining servers, IT infrastructure, and other equipment in a server room.
• Experience in the day-to-day operations of a data center environment, particularly as it relates to planning and infrastructure management.

Why Sunbird?

• We are all about delighting our clients and live/breathe the end client/user experience.
• We believe in collaboration, teamwork, creativity, and taking initiative.

Interested? Read on for additional details about this opportunity to join our amazing team!