Cloud DevOps Engineer OR Architect - GCP - Contract/Temp

Company Description

Merkle is a leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company. For over 30 years, Fortune 1,000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with us to build and maximize the value of their customer portfolios. With more than 9,600 smart, dedicated people in more than 50 offices around the world, we are still growing at a rate that outpaces the market, with 2019 net revenue of $1.1 billion.

Job Description

This is a 6-12 month contract opportunity. (W2 Preferred)

Merkle is looking for experienced Cloud professionals to be part of its Cloud practice. You will be working on industry leading public Cloud platforms Google Cloud Platform and be responsible for managing infrastructure, automating deployments, setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and logging, implementing security best practices, collaborating with other teams, and designing and implementing disaster recovery strategies for next generation Marketing solutions leveraging Cloud native and Commercial/Open Source technologies.

Key Responsibilities

As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you need to have

• Exposure in designing, creating & managing cloud infrastructure. This includes creating virtual machines, setting up load balancers, configuring networks, managing security, and ensuring high availability of services.
• Experience in automating Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery of Applications and Infrastructure towards building highly scalable systems
• Experience with Docker, Microservices and container deployment and service orchestration
• Experience with Blue-Green Deployment to reduce downtime and risk, provide continuous deployment and fast rollback
• Design kubernetes clusters to guarantee a high degree of reliability, security, and scalability
• Provide support, improve, and implement Kubernetes internal components and applications on top of multiple clusters. Troubleshoot and triage issues as they arise
• Encourage best practice policies. Adapt to various technologies and be willing to get involved with the Kubernetes and public cloud/hyperscalar communities as needed
• Document implementation handbooks for highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
• Provide problem resolution, reviewing and recommending process and procedure improvements, and facilitating communication between the Operations Teams and the Developers or Product Owners.  
• Experience with Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation) using scripting languages (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell)
• Configuration management using tools such as Chef and Puppet. 
• Experience in Logging & Monitoring using tools like CloudWatch, StackDriver and ensure high availability of Apps and Infrastructure
• Understands Security best practices to setup firewalls, access controls, encryption & managing identity access control.
• Participate in creating new services capabilities, productized solution offerings and document
• implementation handbooks
• Participate in technical engagements such as Proof of Concepts, project delivery for key strategic opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps environments instrumenting continuous integration (CI), deployment (CD) and, ideally, infrastructure as code (IAC)  
• 3+ years of experience with Enterprise ITIL Processes 
• 3+ years of experience working on Google Cloud (GCP) 
• Experience with DevOps related automation tools to include, but not limited to: source mgmt (e.g. GIT, CodeCommit); continuous integration (e.g. Terraform, Jenkins, Jarvis), application configuration management (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible) and container management tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) 
• Demonstrated understanding of core Kubernetes solution architecture and the extended CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) landscape of tools and services
• Experience with maintenance such as Kubernetes patches and upgrades
• Experience managing multiple Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• Strong Implementation experience in public cloud container services (EKS, AKS, GKE)
• Hands on experience and knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and operations
• Systems administration expertise (Windows, Linux) 
• Scripting expertise (Shell, PowerShell, Bash, Python) 
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges 
• Highly technical and analytical thinking, possessing 3 or more years of IT implementation experience 
• Have worked on loggin & monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK, Grafana, CloudWatch, Stackdriver etc…
• Hands-on experience setting up end to end DevOps framewor