DevOps Engineer Senior

Purpose

• Design, develop, test, and release software to consumers. 

• Apply Release Engineering best practices and principles that will make development cycles shorter and assist teams in continuously delivering high-quality software. 

• Integrate daily Dev/Ops tasks involved in the development, quality control, deployment, and integration of software development into a single, continuous set of processes.

Essential Duties

Systems analysis and documentation (10%)

• Analyze the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion of the CI/CD EcoSystem 

• Write Release Engineering Standard Operation Procedures 

• Collaborate with the development, IT, DBA, Security teams to define CI/CD requirements

Project planning (10%)

• Participate in project planning meetings to share release engineering knowledge of system deployment options, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits. 

• Communicate operational requirements and Dev/Ops development forecasts.

Building and setting up development tools and infrastructure (50%)

• Design, develop, code, build, install, configure, and maintain IT solutions for: 

• Continuous management 

• Continuous integration 

• Continuous testing 

• Continuous deployment 

• Continuous monitoring 

• Automate and improve development and release processes

• Test and review automation code 

• Work with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established release processes and works as intended

Deployment (20%)

• Maintain and continuously improve configuration management software to automatically deploy updates and fixes into the production environment.

• Maintain and continuously improve recovery management software to automatically rollback deployed updates. 

Maintenance, Troubleshooting and Performance management (10%) 

• Perform routine application maintenance to ensure the production environment runs smoothly. 

• Develop maintenance requirements and procedures.

• Identify problems or bottlenecks in everyday processes and procedures

• Suggest improvements and implement fixes as needed to ensure processes meet expectations

• Recommend performance enhancements by performing gap analysis, identifying alternative solutions, and assisting with modifications.

Other Duties

None

Required Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure as code environments, including activities around the automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, or monitoring and testing, such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

• Experience with Linux & Windows systems administration

• Experience with provisioning and managing infrastructure as well as applications in Cloud environments including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Experience with identifying and implementing automation to improve user experience (UX)

• Experience with scripting in Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby

• Experience with open technologies, DevOps, and related Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Ansible, Git/Artifactory, and others

• Experience with automation tools, including Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

• Experience with system integration using a variety of protocols, including JSON, REST, and XML

• Experience with leveraging JSON, YAML, or XML for configuration

• Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies

• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

• Experience with containerization including OpenShift, Docker, or Kubernetes

• Experience with managing project priorities and deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• 5 years of experience with depth and breadth of technical expertise in designing and developing continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous delivery frameworks. 

• 1 year of experience with team leadership in professional setting