DevOps Engineer Principal

Position:

DevOps Engineer Principal

Job Description:

LOCATION

Highly prefer candidates work from our Jacksonville, FL HQ. Local candidates will have flexibility to work remote up to 3 days per week. Non-local candidates may work remotely with expected travel to the Jacksonville, FL HQ up to 1 time per quarter.

SUMMARY

Responsible for the continual automation, integration, deployment, and optimization of software build and deployment systems. Works collaboratively with software engineers to deploy and operate systems across multiple platforms securely and accurately. Keeps a vigilant eye on Black Knight's systems capacity and performance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assists in defining automated monitoring, deployment and repair strategies using a wide variety of Ops tools and monitoring platforms
• Builds and maintains tools for deployment, monitoring and operations as well as troubleshoots and resolves issues
• Assists with the Continuous Integration and Continual Deployment (CI/CD) processes and mentors teams to assist with improving their processes
• Makes sure build and deployment processes follow known best practices
• Assists with the management and performance of the infrastructure and deployment of applications
• Evaluates third party software tools and libraries for enterprise needs with risk management
• Diagnoses, isolates, and debugs application problems and performs problem resolution
• Monitors systems capacity and performance to allow for scaling of high performance as necessary
• Performs other duties as required

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience
• Requires 6+ years of experience in systems administration, DevOps, and/or software development
• Experience developing or supporting either Java or .NET applications and build tools
• Experience working in an environment that utilizes CI/CD processes
• Knowledge of source code control tools such as Git (GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket)
• Proficiency with tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or Puppet
• Experience with scripting and development languages such as Python, Java, C#, PowerShell, etc.
• Experience with container orchestration tools (i.e., Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm, etc.) for containerizing applications or services
• Proficiency in Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux / RHEL) and/or Windows operating systems
• Any experience with Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP or Private cloud platforms (Pivotal Cloud Foundry etc.)
• Good understanding of Microservices architecture
• Experience with Agile best practices

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant certifications in technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP Cloud, Linux, Microsoft and/or Kubernetes
• Expertise in cloud computing, storage, and hosting functionality (i.e., cloud computing, storage, hosting functionality)
• Experience managing large number of systems (configuration management systems)
• Expertise with monitoring, alerting and incident response tools and performing root cause analysis.
• Experience with automated testing
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to develop partnership-oriented relationships with business executives and functional leaders, especially as it relates to operations and technology
• Must be able to multitask in a fast-paced environment with focus on timeliness, documentation, and communications with peers and business users alike

Black Knight carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, specialty, experience, and work location. The base salary (exempt) or hourly rate (non-exempt) is just one component of the total rewards package offered to our employees, including potential bonus or commission eligibility, insurance (medical/dental/vision/life/disability), matching 401(k) plan and matching employee stock purchase plan

EEO Statement:

Black Knight is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, and protected veteran or military family status. Our employees' diversity is our strength, and when we embrace our differences, it makes us better and brighter. Black Knight's commitment to inclusion is at the core of who we are, and motivates us in how we do business each and every day.

Location:

Jacksonville, FL

Time Type:

Full time