Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

If you are looking for an amazing opportunity where you can combine your software engineering skills with your passion to apply Robotics to medicine and healthcare, then this is the position for you! This is kind of the position you will have tremendous pride talking about with your friends and family. You will be part of a very talented team that is highly motivated and passionate about our vision which simply is "Life Unlimited". The position is in Pittsburgh, PA which is rapidly becoming the premier location for everything Robotics.

You will lead the team that ensures the entire software development lifecycle is enabled in a way that allows for lean development and improves velocity of the team (waste and inefficiencies are eliminated), high level of visibility for engineers and other stakeholders on key metrics that are relevant to them and improving quality. The team you lead will strive to progressively automate all aspects of software development lifecycle. This would include automating creation of artefacts that are required to provide objective evidence. You and your team will ensure correct configuration of all production software.

Responsibilities

• Lead team designing and maintaining software tool chain that enables software development of projects of simple to moderate complexity.
• Lead team ensuring tool chain enables code review, unit testing and automated system testing. Ensures seamless movement of software through these different stages and promotion of software once theses quality gates are passed at the required level.
• Handle on premise and cloud infrastructure that is hosting the tool chain and where projects are simple to moderate complexity.
• Build tools and dashboards to enable correct metrics are captured throughout the development lifecycle such as code quality and velocity.
• Ensuring infrastructure successfully passes disaster recovery testing.
• Ensures creation of immutable software through the use of virtual images, containers, etc.
• Document tools and processes to ensure quality management systems requirements are met and more importantly to ensure these artefacts provide the required value in terms of quality.
• Responsible for ensuring cybersecurity requirements are met.

EDUCATION

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other equivalent education.
Master's degree is preferable

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Leading teams building automation with tools like Docker, Ansible, and Vagrant.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux operating systems and command line tools.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Perl and Python.
• Proven experience with leading teams successfully managing Git repos, including migrations and branch management at scale.
• Familiar with build tools like Make and CMake
• Familiar with CI / CD pipelines such as JIRA, GIT, Crucible, Jenkins, Bamboo, Artifactory, etc.
• Strong experience with cloud environments such as AWS.
• Maybe responsible for creating Infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Chef.
• Strong experience of IT infrastructure and networking concepts.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with FDA regulated medical devices.
• Experience with testing frameworks like Google Test
• Experience with Robotics systems.
• Experience with Windows operating systems.
• Someone who has previously development application software is preferred.

Competencies

• Works very well in a collaborative, fast paced, multidisciplinary environment, and thrives under pressure.

About Us:

Smith+Nephew has a proud history of more than 160 years of improving health around the world. Whilst we have grown significantly from our beginnings as a small family pharmacy in Hull, England, our caring spirit has remained the same.

Care, Collaboration, & Courage:

Care means that we show empathy and understanding for each other, our customers and patients.

Collaboration means we work together as a team, based on mutual trust and respect.

Courage is about continuous learning, innovation and accountability.

At Smith+Nephew, we offer competitive and rewarding compensation and benefits packages!

Our benefits packages vary from country to country and by level, but often the total package includes the following:

• A competitive salary with an annual bonus plan.
• Strong Healthcare coverage.
• A competitive company retirement benefit scheme for all employees.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Smith+Nephew provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.