DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

The Dolby Cloud Solutions organization builds technologies and innovations that easily integrate into service providers’ infrastructure to make content experiences more effective, meaningful, and engaging for consumers.

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced contract DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team. This senior-level contract role demands a multi-cloud expert with profound Kubernetes knowledge to architect, implement, and optimize complex infrastructure across diverse cloud environments. The ideal candidate will drive our multi-cloud strategy, ensuring seamless container orchestration and deployment workflows.

Key Responsibilities

1. Multi-Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Management

• Design and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and DigitalOcean.
• Architect cloud-agnostic solutions that maximize portability and avoid vendor lock-in.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Pulumi, and cloud-native tools.
• Optimize cost efficiency across multiple cloud providers through strategic workload placement.
• Design and implement multi-cloud disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.

2. Kubernetes & Container Orchestration Leadership

•  Architect and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud environments.
•  Design and implement multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments.
•  Manage Kubernetes distributions including EKS (AWS), AKS (Azure), GKE (GCP), OKE (OCI), and DOKS (DigitalOcean).
•  Implement advanced Kubernetes patterns: operators, custom resources, admission controllers.
•  Design service mesh architectures using Istio, Linkerd, or Consul Connect.
•  Optimize cluster autoscaling, resource allocation, and workload scheduling.
  
  

3. Advanced CI/CD & GitOps

• Design sophisticated CI/CD pipelines that deploy across multiple cloud environments.
• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, Flux, or similar tools.
• Create automated testing strategies for multi-cloud deployments.
• Develop advanced deployment patterns: blue-green, canary, progressive delivery.
• Build cross-cloud promotion pipelines with environment-specific configurations.

4. Monitoring & Observability

• Implement unified monitoring across all cloud platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native tools.
• Design distributed tracing solutions for multi-cloud microservices architectures.
•  Establish comprehensive logging strategies using ELK Stack, Fluentd, and cloud logging services.
• Create cross-cloud alerting and incident response workflows.
• Implement chaos engineering practices to test multi-cloud resilience.
  
  

5. Security & Compliance

• Implement zero-trust security models across all cloud environments.
• Manage secrets, certificates, and access controls using HashiCorp Vault, cloud KMS, and Kubernetes secrets.
• Ensure compliance across different cloud providers' security frameworks.
• Implement network security policies and micro-segmentation.
• Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability management.

6. Leadership & Strategic Planning

• Lead technical architecture decisions for multi-cloud initiatives.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native best practices across development teams.
• Participate in vendor evaluation and cloud provider selection processes.

Required Qualifications

Experience

•  8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
•  6+ years of hands-on experience with multiple cloud platforms.
•  5+ years of production Kubernetes experience across different environments.
•  4+ years of experience leading technical projects and mentoring team members.
•  3+ years of multi-cloud architecture and implementation experience.
  
  

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

•  AWS: EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, Lambda.
•  Azure: AKS, Virtual Machines, Resource Manager, Azure DevOps.
• Google Cloud Platform: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Build, IAM.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: OKE, Compute, Networking, Resource Manager.
•  DigitalOcean: DOKS, Droplets, Load Balancers, Spaces.

Kubernetes & Containers

•  Kubernetes: Deep expertise in cluster management, networking, storage, security.
• Container Technologies: Docker, containerd, CRI-O, container registries.
• Helm: Chart development, templating, repository management.
• Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect.
• Kubernetes Tools: kubectl, kustomize, operators, admission controllers.
  
  

Infrastructure & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (multi-cloud), Pulumi, cloud-native IaC tools.
• CI/CD Platforms: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build.
• GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux, Tekton.
• Programming/Scripting: Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, YAML/JSON.

Monitoring & Observability

• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, cloud-native monitoring solutions.
• Logging: ELK Stack, Fluentd, cloud logging services.
• Tracing: Jaeger, Zipkin, cloud tracing solutions.
• APM: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace.

Additional Requirements

• Deep understanding of networking concepts across different cloud providers.
• Experience with multi-cloud networking solutions

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The NY pay range for this contract position is $75 - $90 per hour, depending on experience.   

Dolby will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Dolby is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.