Chef Devops

Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Automation:

• Chef Cookbook creation
• Previous experience in creating new cookbooks for new operatingsystems
• Previous experience in creatingcookbooks for both Windows and Linux
• Previous experience in creating cookbooks for application deployment such as MS SQL, MongoDB.
• Previous experience with automated cookbook testing.
• Maintain existing Chef Recipes
• For all existing Chef recipes the team should maintain them in a working state. Update them as necessary to keep up with latest software releases and patches
• Monitor ticketing queue for Chef related trouble tickets that come in and remediate the issues
• If the Chef dashboard is reporting any issues, the team should create a trouble ticket for it and remediate it on their own
• Maintain Chef Automate software running on Paramount Cloud infrastructure
• We installed Chef on AWS EC2 and we maintain that software and upgrades to it. The team should be able to maintain this and upgrade when necessary
• There is also DR configured for Chef and the team should be able to initiate DR and support our configuration
• Make sure cookbooks are promoted across environments when deployed.

**Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):**Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and efficient code deployments.

**System Monitoring and Maintenance:**Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability and reliability of infrastructure.

**Collaboration:**Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to streamline processes and improve collaboration.

**Security and Compliance:**Ensure that infrastructure complies with security standards and best practices.

Skills and Qualifications:

**Technical Proficiency:**Strong knowledge of Chef, as well as other DevOps tools like Jenkins, Env0, GitHub actions.

Scripting and Programming: Proficiency in scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, or Bash.

**Problem-Solving:**Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills to address infrastructure issues.

Communication: Good communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.