Job Title: Infra DevOps Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale, CA // Hybrid
Hybrid: 3-4 days onsite a week
Duration: 12 Months W2 Contract
Job Description:
Seeking an experienced Infrastructure DevOps Engineer to support high-scale, mission-critical enterprise environments. In this role, you will manage hybrid infrastructure spanning virtual machines and containerized workloads, maintain deep operational observability via Splunk, and enforce rigorous change management standards to ensure zero-downtime reliability across global production systems.
Key Responsibilities:
• Container Orchestration & Kubernetes: Design, deploy, scale, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, automated rollouts, and secure pod networking.
• Virtual Machine (VM) Management: Provision, configure, patch, and optimize Linux/Unix virtual machines across on-premises hypervisors and private/hybrid cloud environments.
• Observability & Logging (Splunk): Build, maintain, and optimize Splunk dashboards, alerts, log ingestion pipelines, and SPL queries to proactively detect anomalies and accelerate root-cause analysis.
• Change & Release Management: Own the end-to-end Change Management lifecycle for infrastructure updates, including drafting Method of Procedures (MOPs), assessing blast radius, participating in Change Advisory Board (CAB) reviews, and executing zero-downtime maintenance windows.
• CI/CD & Infrastructure Automation: Automate repetitive operational tasks, configuration management, and infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and scripting tools.
• Incident Response & Reliability: Serve as an escalation point for production infrastructure incidents, leading post-incident reviews and implementing permanent preventative fixes.
Required Qualifications:
• Enterprise Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Kubernetes Expertise: Strong production experience managing Kubernetes clusters (deployment troubleshooting, resource optimization, Helm, ingress, and RBAC).
• Splunk Proficiency: Proven ability to write complex Splunk Processing Language (SPL) queries, build operational dashboards, and configure automated alerting for infrastructure and application logs.
• VM & OS Administration: Deep familiarity with Linux system administration (RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar) and enterprise virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere, KVM, or OpenStack).
• Change Management Discipline: Demonstrated experience operating under strict ITIL/enterprise Change Management frameworks, with a track record of executing safe, auditable production changes.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go, alongside automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Jenkins.
