DevOps / Cloud - Sr. Consultant - REMOTE USA

Zilker Technology is an expert Digital Consultancy and Systems Integrator that combines the agility of a start-up with the experience and expertise of a global consulting firm. Zilker specializes in unlocking the value of client data and delivering it to new digital platforms. With a team of highly trusted industry experts, Zilker can create powerful digital solutions for customers, with the skills to integrate with very complex back-end systems both on-premise or in the cloud. For more, visit www.ztech.io.
 
Zilker is a virtual company allowing the ideal candidate to be located anywhere in the United States, but up to 50% national travel is required.  We are known for our amazing culture which make Zilker the place to work in the consulting industry.  The following are the job specifications:
 
Join Zilker's sytems group to provide expert level Devops consulting to our clients.   Candidates must have a minimum of 2 years experience working in Devops and demonstrated strong scripting and SysAdmin experience.  Candidate must have a strong understanding of full lifecycle development (Requirements gathering, design and development, testing, support etc.,). In addition, candidate must have a minimum of 2 years consulting experience. Excellent communication skills are a must.. Candidate must have a solid track record of working on strong teams contributing to medium to large-scale engagements.
 
Required Skills:
 
  • Strong systems, problem solving and analytical skills; excellent verbal & written communication skills
  • 2 or more years of experience with devops
  • Senior level Linux/Unix administration experience
  • IBM Middleware experience WebSphere etc
  • Puppet deployment experience in a customer environment
  • Programming experience with Ruby, Python, Perl, etc
  • High degree of knowledge in data center infrastructure and management; cloud, virtualization, storage, networking, security, monitoring, database, etc.
  • Container Experience: Docker, Kubernettes, IBM Cloud Private, RedHat Openshift, Pivotal (Cloudfoundry or PKS)
  • Experience with version control, workflow, (preferably Git)
  • 1+ years experience with Urbancode
  • Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and/or Jenkins
  • Virtualization experience with VMWare and/or Docker
  • Experience with IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure,  Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or
  • PureApplication Server
  • Experience with installation and configuration of Websphere environments a plus.
  • Excellent time management and task management skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to manage customer expectations
  • Ability to manage customer objections and challenging personalities
  • Positive problem solving outlook to challenges / Independence with assignments.
  • Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment.
  • Good understanding of diverse technical environments and platforms a plus.
 
Job Responsibilities:
  • Automate and configure code deployment
  • Configure and set-up Urbancode environments
  • Install and configure git servers (Gitlab, plain git or equivalent) and configure them to house a a code control repository and optional component module repositories
  • Write configuration and automation scripts
  • Work on workload migrations from onsite to the Cloud
  • Consult around the use of system tools for various platforms such as ssh, various flavors of login shells, user management tools, registry tools (Windows only), service management tools (Windows), package management tools, and others
 

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