Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Summary:
The Senior DevOps Engineer encompasses support for our Software delivery systems including (but not limited to) release engineering, release automation, project management, software deployment and configuration, as well as system monitoring. This role requires an in-depth knowledge of DevOps practice, test automation frameworks and a deep understanding of DevOps services as well as proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
The ideal candidate will have technical expertise in this space, but also in mentoring and leading a team towards a high bar of excellence.
Job Responsibilities:

• Tackles a challenging and varied set of problems aimed at how we can further mature our DevOps tools, processes, and engineering capabilities.
• Writes code and scripts that provide desired functionality to the software, typically for sites, products and programs that have little or no precedent. Advocates and models coding and collaboration practices, reviews code, and provides team with feedback and suggestions for improvement.
• Researches, designs and implements solutions for fault tolerance, performance enhancement and configuration management of applications.
• Integrates software development and delivery from inception to full operation, ensuring robust released software and systems. Coordinates release of new software and systems.
• Analyzes technical requirements of applications to ensure systems provide required availability, latency, scalability and efficiency. Conducts root cause analysis for production incidents, makes viable changes and moves the product out the door quickly.
• Identifies trends and anomalies over the long term lifecycle of the application and platform. Tunes and monitors the application environment. Documents and demonstrates solutions through diagrams, and readable code.
• Contributes to team planning to solve the engineering challenges.
• Develops, analyzes and maintains tools that support and automate processes for software product releases.
• Ensures that software and program defects in assigned projects or programs are tracked and summarizes and presents findings to management.
• Collaborates with other team members to establish new best practices and maintainable processes.
• Gathers and updates necessary information and communicates to appropriate parties.
• Anticipates, prevents and eliminates problems and creates efficient fixes.
• Works cross-functionally to accomplish assignments and mentors less experienced members of the team.
• Researches and utilizes the latest industry standard tools and practices to meet the evolving needs of our Development and Business teams.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans
About Walgreens and WBA
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the U.S. Retail Pharmacy and U.S. Healthcare segments of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170-year heritage of caring for communities. WBA's purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services, including those that drive equitable access to care for the nation's medically underserved populations. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high-quality products and services in communities nationwide
Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 2 years of experience in a technical engineering role, such as DevOps, release management, deployment engineering, site operations, technical operations or similar OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 5 years of experience in a technical engineering role, such as DevOps, release management, deployment engineering, site operations, technical operations or similar.
• Experience with software engineering
• Experience building CI/CD systems that meet requirements around secure software delivery, stability, and scalability.
• Full life-cycle experience (design through delivery and support), developing and improving software configuration management standards, practices and procedures.
• Experience with at least two other programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, etc.)
• At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in a technical engineering role, such as DevOps, release management, deployment engineering, site operations, technical operations or similar.
• Experience with at least one public cloud environment, such as Azure or AWS or GCP
• Experience with DevOps stack - source control systems, CI/CD, monitoring, deployment and config management.
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community and with vendors.
• Experience reacting swiftly and adapting to technical challenges.
• REST/SOAP development experience

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