DevOps Engineer

Why WWT?

Founded in 1990, World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution, with $20 billion in annual revenue, combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for large public and private organizations around the world. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps customers and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.

With nearly 10,000 employees and more than 55 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 13 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and leadership focus on diversity and inclusion. With this culture at its foundation, WWT bridges the gap between business and technology to make a new world happen for its customers, partners and communities.

Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!

What will you be doing?

A Brief Overview
DevOps Engineers will be responsible for spreading knowledge, ideas and applied implementation skills needed to improve software delivery and runtime performance. You will be responsible for ensuring that the customer understands the delivery requirements and takes a collaborative approach for the entire Software Development Lifecycle. This includes active involvement in building software delivery and testing pipelines along with automated provisioning of infrastructure. In addition to technical skills, you will also be a crucial coach and mentor for teams through their Agile/DevOps journey.

Job Responsibilities

• Be a servant leader by providing technical guidance, mentoring peers and bridging silos between teams.
• Assist clients in building and adopting software delivery tools to accelerate their DevOps growth.
• Make recommendations for building new infrastructure and improving existing architecture.
• Maintain existing and future software services, code and configuration.
• Help implement and adopt new technologies for future deployment.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfers and mentorship to peers as required.

Ansible Expertise:

• Advanced Ansible experience: API integrations, data transformation, config management, IaC
• Strong focus on enterprise-level automation

Kubernetes Deployment:

• Advanced Kubernetes knowledge: scalable deployments, networking, troubleshooting
• Bonus: OpenShift experience

CI/CD Expertise:

• Automated pipeline creation and integration
• GitOps deployment best practices
• Secret management and security compliance
• Bonus: Experience with GitHub Actions and data pipeline automation

Cloud Platform Knowledge:

• Strong Azure experience
• GCP familiarity is a plus

Nice-to-Have Skills

• OpenShift Direct Experience
• GitHub & GitHub Actions

Observability & Data Visualization:

• Data flow management, visualization platform integration (e.g., Grafana).

• GCP Expertise
• Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Experience
• Terraform Knowledge
• Python Development:
• Custom Ansible module creation.

Consultative Mindset:

• Ability to engage with customer stakeholders of various technical backgrounds.

Specific Tool Experience (Desirable)

• Grafana Alloy, Cribl Stream, Confluent Cloud, Kafka, Grafana, Nautobot.

Networking Automation with Ansible:

• Experience automating network devices using Ansible.
• Event-Driven Automation with Ansible

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science required or Bachelor's Degree Related Field required
• A minimum of 5 years' progressive experience in a related field required
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and Agile Development processes
• Strong mentorship and presentation skills, comfortable working directly with clients
• High attention to detail and able to solve complex challenges
• Experience with deployment automation and orchestration

The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

• Health and Wellbeing: Health, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
• Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities