DevOps Platform Engineer

Kin + Carta is a digital transformation firm with one sole purpose: to make the world work better. We partner directly with our clients, mainly Fortune 500 companies as a software engineering studio with a focus on innovation and full-stack modernisation. We have 2 main headquarters: Chicago leading K+C Americas with offices in NYC, Denver, and Buenos Aires and London leading our offices in the UK. There are 1,600+ of us globally, we’re united by culture and a shared way of working.

Kin + Carta is looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer with a system engineering and development background to join our growing team in our Cloud Native Practice. This is a new position at Kin + Carta, and you’ll be helping to continue building out this client offering.

Your background includes:

• Comfortable working in a collaborative environment with individuals locally and distributed globally
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral are required
• Three or more years of experience in data center architecture, delivery and operational services in at least one Cloud IaaS environment (vSphere, AWS, Azure, GCP or OpenStack)
• Experience with hardware/software load balancers including F5, BigIP, AWS, HA Proxy, Nginx, Apache, ELB or Google Cloud Load Balancing
• Experience automating IT Operations processes via automated pipelines using common scripting languages including Shell, Python, Golang or Ruby
• Experience automating pipelines by using continuous delivery tools including Jenkins, Concourse, vRealize Automation, Team City, Bamboo or UrbanCode
• Experience with configuration/cluster management technologies including Chef, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, Heroku buildpacks, BOSH or Ansible
• System Administrator experience
• Solid understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics
• Understanding of cloud platform offerings such as Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, GKE, Azure Service Fabric or similar
• Certifications in Google (Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer) or Microsoft (DevOps Engineer Expert) are preferred. 
• Experience working with NTP, SAML, OAUTH2 or Active Directory
• Proactive inclination to break down complex problems into steps that drive customer value
• Must be effective in working both independently and in a team setting

Our benefits:

• Personal training budget;
• Mentorship program;
• Additional days of paid vacation;
• Family premium health insurance;
• Catered lunches;
• In-house English lessons;
• Weekly yoga classes.

We welcome our Kin to show up as their full selves everyday. Because this is so important to us, Kin + Carta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.