Devops Engineer

Position: Devops Engineer
Location: Las Vegas – Nevada
Mode: Onsite
Type: Fulltime/ Subcon
Job Details:
Essential Job Functions:
Production Operations
Support
Provide operational support for production and non production environments.
Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation and respond to critical production incidents.
Monitor system health, application performance, and infrastructure availability.
RCA and implement preventive measures.
Troubleshoot complex applications, databases, infrastructure, and deployment issues.
CI/CD
Release Management
Design, maintain, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Automate application deployment, testing, and release processes.
Implement deployment best practices to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
Collaborate with development teams to streamline DevOps processes.
Kubernetes Platform Management
Deploy, configure, and manage containerized applications on
Kubernetes .
Troubleshoot Kubernetes issues.
Manage scaling, availability, and performance optimization of Kubernetes workloads.
Work with Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests for application deployments.
Database Deployment
Administration
Plan and execute
database deployment activities
across environments.
Support database schema changes, migrations, and rollback procedures.
Monitor and optimize database performance.
Collaborate with development teams on database release strategies.
PostgreSQL Administration
Support and maintain
PostgreSQL
databases.
Troubleshoot database performance bottlenecks and connectivity issues.
Manage backup, recovery, replication, and high availability configurations.
Ensure database security and compliance standards are maintained.
Monitoring
Observability
Configure and maintain monitoring dashboards using Dynatrace to drive system reliability and operational excellence.
Analyze application and infrastructure performance metrics.
Create alerts and proactive monitoring strategies to identify issues before customer impact.
Continuous Improvement
Develop automation scripts and operational tooling.
Create and maintain operational runbooks and standard operating procedures.
Identify opportunities for process improvement and operational efficiency.
Partner with engineering teams to improve platform reliability and scalability.
Position Requirements:
Technical Skills
GitLab CI/CD
Pipeline creation and optimization
GitLab Runners
Deployment automation
Kubernetes
Cluster operations and administration
Helm Charts
Pod, Service, Ingress troubleshooting
Database Deployments
Schema migrations
Release management
Rollback strategies
Monitoring
Observability
Dynatrace
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Log analysis and alerting
Troubleshooting
Application debugging
Infrastructure issue diagnosis
Performance analysis
Production incident management
Operational Skills
24x7 On Call Support
Incident Management
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Problem Management
Change Management
Release Coordination
Success Metrics
Production availability and up time.
Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).
Reduction in recurring incidents.
Platform reliability and performance improvements.
Operational automation and efficiency gains.