System Engineer / DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm.  Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity.  We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Our Partner

Our partner (listed on NASDAQ) is the leading expert in 5G ready cloud-native, network intelligence solutions for telecom operators transitioning to 5G. Their Network Intelligence consists of Network Visibility, Service Assurance, and Network Insights. The Network Intelligence suite offers intelligent, container-based, on-demand solutions to deliver network analysis from the RAN to the Core for 5G assurance. Utilizing automated and dynamic solutions with smart minimal data collection and on-demand troubleshooting and cutting-edge techniques based on machine learning, these solutions work in harmony to provide operators an understanding of the entire customer experience and allow them to troubleshoot network performance from a high to granular level while reducing storage costs and cloud resource utilization. 

Overall Objective of the Role

We are seeking a System Engineer / DevOps Engineer with expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and system administration.

You will be part of the Infra team within the Infra & Orch Group, which focuses on developing tools and processes for installing, configuring, and managing our partner’s products. The Infra team is responsible for both in-house applications that support product infrastructure (such as user management, authentication integrations, and system configurations) as well as third-party open-source solutions, including databases (MongoDB, Vertica), monitoring tools (Prometheus, EFK), and other technologies like Kafka and MinIO.

In this role, you will be instrumental in managing and optimizing our infrastructure, ensuring system scalability, security, and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring & Logging: Manage monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK) to track performance, detect failures, and optimize resources.
• Maintain & Optimize Messaging System and Storage solutions (Kafka, Min.io, Redis etc).
• Kubernetes & Containerization: Deploy, monitor, and manage Kubernetes clusters and Docker containers.
• Security & Compliance: Implement best security practices, vulnerability fixes, and compliance monitoring.
• Incident Response & Troubleshooting: Identify and resolve system performance and availability issues.
• Collaboration & Documentation: Work closely with development teams to improve system reliability and performance while maintaining detailed documentation.
• Code & Test cases: Conduct code and test case reviews to ensure the developed code aligns with requirements, follows best practices, and maintains high quality standards.
• Research & Implement: Research solutions for low-latency, high-availability, and performant infrastructure as a member of a multidisciplinary team working on a complex stack of technologies.

Requirements

Must Have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical field. 
• 3+ years of relevant experience in the field.
• Strong experience containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Experience with integrating and managing open-source applications (Grafana, Prometheus, EFK, Kafka, Min.io etc).
• Hands-on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization.
• Experience with one or more scripting languages: Bash, Python.
• Experience configuring and debugging Linux based systems.
• Solid knowledge of networking principles, including TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, and routing.
• Experience with AWS or Azure cloud environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git).

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience with OpenStack (private cloud).
• Experience with virtualization environments like VMWare.
• Experience with REST APIs.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Vertica.

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