Contract: Systems Engineer

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.

Last year, more than $3.3 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

Work/Project Scope:

• Responsible for helping our team on several initiatives to enhance and scale our IT Infrastructure needs in a fast-growing SaaS environment.
• Provide technical expertise while working with cross-functional teams to achieve compliance, revamping our Identity Management System, integrating applications with our Identity Provider and improving/enhancing existing services hosted by Upwork Corporate Technology.
  
  
  

Must Haves (Required Skills):

• DevOps mindset to approaching problems
• Experience with Configuration Management(Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc)
• Ability to manage own projects, meet deadlines, and communicate with stakeholders across multiple teams and geographies.
• Comfortable in at least one of the following scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Go)
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and Container orchestration
• Ability to adapt to change and learn new technologies
• 3 Years of experience in AWS/Azure/GCP
• Comfortable with Linux and Windows systems
• Ability to join the on-call rotation, 1 week every 2 months
• Able to work during Central Standard Time business hours during the training period
  
  
  

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