Production Operations Engineer, ProdOps Engineer
- Metrix IT Solutions INC.
7 Hours Ago
NA
C2C
Las Vegas-NV
8-10 Years
Required Skills: Production Support, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, GitLab CI/CD, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
Job Description
Must-Have
- 5+ years of experience in Production Support, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, pipeline creation/optimization, GitLab Runners, and deployment automation.
- Strong Kubernetes experience, including cluster operations, Helm Charts, and troubleshooting Pods, Services, Ingress, and cluster-level issues.
- Strong PostgreSQL administration and database deployment experience, including schema migrations, backup/recovery, replication, and high availability.
- Experience with Dynatrace/APM, monitoring, observability, log analysis, and alerting.
- Strong application troubleshooting/debugging, infrastructure issue diagnosis, and performance analysis.
- Experience with production incident management, RCA, problem management, change management, and release coordination.
- Must have a development background and experience with operational automation/scripting.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Experience with Linux administration and shell scripting.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
- Understanding of microservices architecture and containerization.
Responsibilities
- Provide production and non-production operational support and participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Design, maintain, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment, testing, and release processes.
- Deploy and manage containerized applications on Kubernetes and troubleshoot cluster/workload issues.
- Plan and execute database deployments, schema migrations, releases, and rollback procedures.
- Support and maintain PostgreSQL, including performance, backup/recovery, replication, and high availability.
- Monitor application and infrastructure health using Dynatrace and develop proactive alerting/observability strategies.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, perform Root Cause Analysis, and implement preventive measures.
- Develop automation scripts, maintain runbooks/SOPs, and drive platform reliability and operational improvements.
