Senior DevOps and Tools Engineer

It's an exciting time to be a member of the Fisher Investments Technology Department. We're investing in the future of our firm's technology and are building our team to achieve global growth. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Tools Engineer to support our Corporate Systems team. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a difference as we develop scalable and strategic solutions to support our global growth, we want to hear from you!
The Opportunity:
The DevOps and Tools Engineer ensures the tools related to Agile development processes operate effectively for our application development teams. You will be an important member of the DevOps team and support the entire Technology organization with the tools and platforms needed to enable Agile planning and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). You will report to the DevOps and Tools Team Leader, on the Application Engineering team.
The Day-to-Day:

• Work with DevOps and Tools and Application Development Team Leads to define application and integration development processes, tools, execution strategies, roadmaps to connect current designs to long-term architecture, and monitoring to bring adherence to processes
• Configure and support cloud-based Atlassian tools, to guide application development efficiencies and improve operational stability of the tools
• Develop tooling and processes to increase automation of development and adherence to security and audit systems and controls
• Integrate and configure additional tools/frameworks, to support and enable Agile at scale
• Foster the adoption of DevOps tools and capabilities across Technology groups
• Collaborate across the department to gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems
• Implement strategies for improving or further applying DevOps processes and tools
• Monitor system availability and performance within agreed upon timelines
• Resolve issues, alerts, and incidents based on predefined service level agreements regarding system availability, performance, and service levels
• Coordinate with other departments on lapse in services, performing root cause analysis
• Escalates unresolved issues accordingly
• Provide international and 24/7 support via on-call duties and working a flexible off-hours schedule for planned and unplanned maintenance
• Act a mentor to engineers, providing assistance, guidance and training

Your Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with
  • DevOps and creating automation within private data center/cloud and public cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google or Amazon AWS cloud services or equivalent
  • Dockerfile and image creation, running containers on Kubernetes or using Docker run time environment
  • DevOps tools, such as Github, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Terraform, AppDynamics, Splunk or equivalent
  • Any of the scripting languages like Shell Scripting, Groovy, Python, PowerShell, HCL or equivalent
  • Atlassian JIRA, Jira Align, Confluence and Mural or other equivalent agile planning tools
• 4+ years of experience with relational database management skills like MSSQL, MySQL, SQL, Postgres or MongoDB preferred or equivalent
• Technology design expertise which includes Containerization, Performance, Security, Availability, and Operations, Monitoring, and Support
• Solid understanding of Enterprise applications development and passion for software development and building scalable and reliable solutions
• Ability to:
  • Train IT product delivery teams on the proper use of DevOps tools and capabilities
  • Perform as a team member, motivate and inspire peers to continuously improve processes and results
  • Plan work of self and others and resolve technical and other problems
  • Present to managers and other technology and partners in a precise manner
• Bachelor's degree in MIS, computer science or other related field required; advanced degree in a related field

Compensation:

• $140,000 - $160,000 base salary per year in the state of WA - New hires should expect to start at the lower end of the range depending on experience
• Eligible for a discretionary bonus based on firm and individual performance

Why Fisher Investments:
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:

• 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
• A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
• 20 days of PTO*, plus 10 paid holidays (*17 days of PTO and 3 days of sick time for California employees)
• Family Support programs including 8 weeks Paid Primary Caregiver leave, adoption assistance and back-up child care
• Opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change. Based on tenure and performance eligibility, you will have the opportunity to work from home up to 75 days per year

FISHER INVESTMENTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER