Role: Senior Istio DevOps Engineer III
Location: Houston, TX -Onsite (1100 Louisiana St. Houston Texas 77002)
Duration: Contract Position
Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Istio DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining our Istio-based service mesh and API gateway infrastructure. You will work closely with our DevOps and development teams to ensure seamless application deployment, improved observability, and enhanced security within our microservices-based environment under minimal supervision.
Responsibilities include:
• Microservices Architecture: Design, implement, and manage the Istio-based service mesh and API gateway to ensure efficient traffic routing, load balancing, and service discovery.
• Deployment and Automation: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation scripts for deploying microservices and Istio configurations.
• Security: Implement security policies and practices within the service mesh, including mTLS encryption, RBAC, and security scanning.
• Monitoring and Observability: Set up monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger to gain insights into the performance and health of microservices.
• Scalability: Optimize the service mesh to handle traffic growth and work on capacity planning.
• Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve issues related to service mesh configurations, network problems, and performance bottlenecks.
• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed documentation, including best practices, standard operating procedures, and architectural diagrams.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with development teams to understand their requirements and ensure that the service mesh infrastructure meets their needs.
The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:
• Degree from an accredited college in computer science or related industry experience is required.
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles is required.
• Strong expertise in Istio and Kubernetes, including hands-on experience with Istio installation, configuration, and troubleshooting is required.
• Strong expertise in implementing microservices architecture is required.
• Strong proficiency with shell/bash scripting is required.
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is required.
• 2+ years of experience implementing on-premises micro-services architecture is required.
• Security-minded with experience implementing security measures in a microservices environment is required.
• In-depth knowledge of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP is required.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger) and log management solutions is preferred.
• Proficiency with automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or similar is preferred.
Applicants who do not have documented experience of required skill-sets WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
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