Staff Engineer, DevOps

Location: Remote | Calabasas, CA

Requisition #5969

Job Overview:

Spirent Communications develops next-generation technology that directly impacts how our customers build, deploy, and scale their networks. Our mission is to be a trusted partner delivering best-of-class, highly performant test products for Service Providers, Data Centers, and Enterprise markets.

We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps with a strong background in platform engineering and automation to join our Cloud & IP Engineering team. In this role, you'll be leading, architecting, and maintaining all of our infrastructure running on VMware and AWS where we utilize a diverse tech stack that includes: Kubernetes (OpenShift & Tanzu), IaC (via Terraform), CI/CD with Jenkins, and networking (Juniper). We need you to be well versed in Python, Shell, and/or Golang and have a deep understanding of tools such as git and HashiCorp’s Vault and Packer to efficiently help automate and improve our infrastructure towards best practices.

To be successful in this role, you should demonstrate a leadership mindset, solid operational experience, and the ability to problem-solve.

About Spirent Communications

Spirent is the leading global provider of automated test and assurance solutions for communications networks, cybersecurity, and positioning.

We provide innovative products, services, and managed solutions that address the test, assurance, and automation challenges of a new generation of technologies, including 5G, cloud, autonomous vehicles, and beyond. From testing in the lab to testing in the real world, Spirent helps companies deliver on their promise to their customers of a new generation of connected devices and technologies.

Why Spirent?... Because together we can shape tomorrow!

Spirent is its people. When you join the Spirent team, you will join forces and work alongside some of the industry’s most passionate subject matter experts. In an environment of innovation, you will find a place where you can grow, think, explore, create, and make change happen.

At Spirent, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to thriving in the ever-changing world of global technology. We embrace a culture where difference is valued and openness, mutual respect, collaboration, and fairness are considered fundamental. Spirent does not tolerate discrimination or offensive behavior of any kind. We are committed to creating workplaces that genuinely reflect the diversity of the world we serve and an environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic self to work.

Your success is vital to our success, which is why we will support you to perform, grow, and contribute – with the confidence to be yourself. And to support your personal wellbeing, we hope you will love our dedication to creating the right work and life balance experience!

Join Spirent and together let’s shape tomorrow!

Job Responsibilities:

• Work within a team of like-minded professionals to plan, deploy, and maintain critical business applications and infrastructure.
• Design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines working with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, Artifactory, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Work with the rest of the engineering team to ship code, maintain infrastructure environments, and as much as possible manage configurations of our infrastructure using an automation-first mindset and IaC Best Practices.
• Collect and use metrics to drive continuous improvement of engineering practices.
• Influence other teams and broader Engineering groups in adopting DevOps best practices.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another technical field from an accredited university; or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of core DevOps experience.
• Demonstrable expertise in any language of choice (Python, Golang, Shell Scripting, etc)
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform.
• Experience with Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and deploying applications on any public Cloud.
• Knowledge of any RDBMS and NoSQL DB.
• Strong knowledge and experience with designing and implementing technical solutions in support of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment.
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Provide Technical leadership to the team both onsite and offshore.
• Demonstrable network troubleshooting (physical and virtual)
• 5+ years of experience developing and managing software delivery pipelines using build tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, and Gradle.
• 5+ years’ experience with Salt or Ansible (preferred) or other Systems Configuration Management tools.
• 3+ years’ experience building/administering/maintaining/supporting Docker and Kubernetes.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

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