DevOps Adoption Engineer

As Engineer working with the Customer will:

• Participate in Customer's Product delivery team as an Agile team member.
• Optimize for Customer Product delivery velocity rather than perfection.
• Be aware of existing, proven DevOps Platform solutions and use them whenever applicable.
• When Customer's requirements don't map to existing DevOps platform features:
  • Inform the DevOps Platform (CI/CD) team
  • Engage to advise, listen and brainstorm possible options
  • Present and discuss the solution with the rest of the DevOps team
  • Provide a pragmatic solution in timely fashion to empower Customer Product Team
  • Depending on the circumstances, custom solutions may remain custom or they may help evolve the DevOps platform.
  • If evolving the DevOps platform, help the DevOps team build and release a permanent Platform feature.

As a member of the DevOps team:

• Stay on top of the DevOps platform developments
• Stay in close touch with other adoption DevOps engineers 
• Collaborate with the DevOps Platform (CI/CD) Engineers (a.k.a. DevOps core).  
• Ensure conforming to DevOps Enterprise standards and principles in Customer's solutions  
• Ensure DevOps is aware of any new use cases and patterns that you see while working with the Customer.  
• Share experience and your solutions with DevOps core and Embedded DevOps Peers.
• Participate in discussions on evolving the Enterprise Platform to accommodate new use cases.  
• Help evolve and test the DevOps platform by applying it in the real world.

• Customer-focused, team-oriented disposition
• Excellent communication skills and soft skills to deal with with customers, peers and management
• Good judgement, sense of integrity and responsibility
• Expert in at least one programming language, such as Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, C, C++
• Solid understanding of CI/CD and experience with Git/Svn, GtiLab/GitHub/BitBucket, Jenkins/TeamCity.
• Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes (Nomad helpful)
• Solid Linux skills
• Experience with AWS, GCP or Azure
• Solid understanding of networking, proxies
• Solid understanding of web development but no need to be an expert web developer
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and micro-services

• B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics)

• OR equivalent industry experience in Software Development

• Presentation skills
• Coaching skills
• Prior DevOps experience
• Prior GitLab experience
• Prior experience with Cloud Native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Service Mesh (linkerd, istio/envoy, consul connect)
• Monitoring products (TICK/TIGK stack (Telegaf, InfluxDB, Grafana, Kapacitor), Prometheus, Stackdriver, etc.)
• Logging products (ELK, Splunk, etc.)
• HashiCorp products (Terraform, Vault, packer, Vagrant, consul)
• Blue/Green and Canary Deployments
• SQL and NoSQL databases