Devops engineer
Position title: Devops engineer
Location: Cupertino, CA
Onsite: 3 days a week
Contract: 6 months extendable
Interview process: 2 video interviews to hire
Project:
- This team owns a data platform that communicates with Client's online banking & exposes data like account balances, credit card balances, etc. This is business critical data/functionality, so any changes to the applications/configurations need to be done in a way that can maintain operations and limit disruption to users
- There is an audit of their platform going on that is uncovering some security risks that need to be addressed within the Cassandra DB
- Additionally, they are migrating from on-prem to Azure planning to have this complete by Q2 of 2026. Also considering migrating to Yugabyte
Responsibilities:
- Developing & automating CI/CD pipelines
- Ansible & AWX "operational automation (updating configurations, executing DB backups, etc.)
- Jenkins & Terraform infrastructure provisioning (deployments, provisioning new Cassandra clusters, etc.)
- Observability/monitoring alerts using Prometheus & Grafana
Must Haves:
- Python for pipeline automation
- Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform
- Experience deploying to cloud, ideally to Azure but open to others
- Prometheus & Grafana
What Will Win:
- Experience working within DB (Cassandra would be a huge plus) ability to create alerts & dashboards for incidents, knowing how to read DB metrics, etc.
- Financial industry experience
