- Company Name
- ASK Consulting
- Job Title
- Devops Engineer (Local profiles only)
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
DevOps Engineer
**Role Summary**
Provide deep technical troubleshooting for complex, large‑scale customer issues, improve operational readiness, build automated tools, and ensure robust monitoring and deployment pipelines for SaaS applications.
**Expectations**
- Direct contract employment with the hiring firm, no subcontracting.
- Work exclusively on a 4‑month contract.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Diagnose and resolve escalated technical problems in networking, OS, web servers, and databases.
- Utilize monitoring tools (Splunk, New Relic, Nagios) to identify root causes and recommend stable fixes.
- Collaborate with customer care, engineering, and product teams to deliver solutions.
- Own the lifecycle of operational readiness: design, deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Develop automation, self‑service tools, and deployment scripts to accelerate change and improve reliability.
- Embed monitoring and metrics into applications before production.
- Provide clear written and verbal communication to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
**Required Skills**
- Full‑stack troubleshooting: networking, Debian/CentOS, Apache, HA‑Proxy, Nginx, RDBMS.
- Monitoring tool experience: Splunk, New Relic, Nagios.
- Cloud platform proficiency: AWS (VPCs, security groups, EC2, RDS, ELB/ALB) and/or Azure.
- Programming: Python, Java, or Go.
- Documentation expertise: detailed write‑ups, wikis, collaboration tools.
- Project scoping, effort estimation, and task decomposition.
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.