Devops Chef CookBook Developer

Technology: DevOps, Chef, CookBook

Responsibilities

We are seeking an accomplished Chef Cookbook Developer to develop and implement complex automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in configuration management, infrastructure as code (IaC), and a CI/CD pipeline. The professional will be entrusted with the design, management, and maintenance of Chef cookbooks that will automate the deployment and configuration of infrastructure in various environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and Maintain Chef Cookbooks: Design, maintain, and optimize Chef cookbooks and recipes to automate deployment, configuration, and management of infrastructure and applications.
• Complex Automation Solutions: Plan and implement complex automation solutions for streamlining infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, and environment configurations.
• Collaboration: Liaise with DevOps engineers, developers, and other stakeholders to comprehend their automation requirements and deliver scalable and reliable solutions.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate Chef cookbooks into the CI/CD pipelines to achieve continuous integration and delivery of changes in infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code: On Chef, design, implement, and manage infrastructure as codenamely, consistent, repeatable, and scalable across multi-environments.
• Testing and Validation: Develop automated tests of Chef cookbooks on tools like Test Kitchen, InSpec, or similar, to ensure high-quality and reliable code.
• Documentation: Create documentation of Chef cookbooks, recipes, and other associated automation processes and maintain records of these.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of Chef cookbooks and the automation process.
• Troubleshooting and Support: Provide technical support and troubleshooting capabilities regarding Chef cookbooks and infrastructure automation.

Qualifications

• More than 3 years of DevOps or System Administration experience with strong exposure to automation and configuration management.
• Proven experience in developing and maintaining Chef cookbooks and recipes.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines and integrating Chef with tools such as Jenkins or similar.

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in Chef, Ruby, and other scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• Hands-on cloud experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP to automate infrastructure on these platforms.
• Familiarity with Git version control or similar and collaborative platforms such as Bitbucket, GitHub, etc.
• Working experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools and practices.
• Strong knowledge of general principles of networking and system administration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Chef certification or equivalent DevOps/automation certifications.
• Familiarity with other configuration management software such as Puppet, Ansible, etc.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools: ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.