DevOps Engineer with Netcracker Platform
DevOps Engineer – Netcracker Platform (Contract)Location: Onsite in Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; or Seattle, WAPrior T-Mobile experience required.Operate and improve the platform supporting wholesale applications, with responsibility for Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, production reliability, and incident response across cloud infrastructure and data services.Responsibilities- Operate, scale, upgrade, and capacity-plan Kubernetes clusters and workloads, including deployments, autoscaling, ingress, network policies, RBAC, and namespaces.- Build secure, automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar; manage repeatable releases with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps practices.- Operate and tune Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis; support Oracle and MongoDB operations with DBAs, including backups, restores, replication, failover, and performance analysis.- Provision and operate AWS services, including EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, and CloudWatch; administer Microsoft Entra ID integrations and access controls.- Develop dashboards, alerts, SLOs, and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger.- Lead on-call incident response, reviews, problem management, release and environment management, and disaster-recovery testing. Maintain runbooks and automate operational toil.- Partner with Security on vulnerability remediation, certificates, secrets, and audit evidence.Qualifications- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or production operations for Java microservices; strong hands-on Kubernetes and AWS experience.- Experience with at least three of Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Oracle, and MongoDB; working knowledge of the others.- CI/CD, Git, Linux, networking, Bash, Python, monitoring, incident management, Terraform and/or Ansible, and Helm experience.- Microsoft Entra ID administration and experience using Claude Code or Claude API for operational automation within data-handling rules.- Telecom/high-availability platforms, Azure, Istio, Vault, resilience testing, ITIL, and JVM diagnostics are preferred.