Sr. DevOps Engineer

In this role, you will:

• Play a lead role in system integration, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Deployment (CD). Interfacing both with the external customers, internal engineering group, and project teams.
• Develop, maintain and evolve on-premise and cloud container-based deployment infrastructure, Ansible infrastructure, GitHub Actions, Maven/Jenkins/Artifactory build infrastructure, and related systems while evaluating and deploying new tools.
• Evolving on-premise and cloud based software pipeline infrastructure to include complete chain of custody security.
• Help guide our customer to adopt the same infrastructure-as-code tooling as we are using in-house.
• Support the deployment and operation of our product at the customer site.
• Work with software developers to implement and integrate system changes to meet the customer’s needs.
• Work with customer throughout the project life cycle to support the CI/CD setup at customer’s site.
• Participate in testing of the integrated system. Identify the need for changes whether they are defects or new enhancements.
• Work in a self-directed fashion to proactively identify system problems, failures, and areas for improvement.
• Track issue resolution and document solutions implemented and create troubleshooting guides.
• Interact with Product Development Team, Customers, Solution Providers (Partner / Integrators), and other cross-functional teams as required.
• Effectively apply standard execution methodologies and processes.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field from an accredited university or college.
• 5 to 8 years of professional experience in On-Prem deployment, DevOps (CI/CD), software development or Enterprise System Integration.

Technical Expertise:

• Proficiency with DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD, source control management.
• Proficiency with Git, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Ansible.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and containerization.
• Hands-on Experience managing Kubernetes deployments with ArgoCD.
• Hands-on Experience Deploying microservices into k8s clusters.
• Hands-on Experience working with Helm Charts.
• Strong experience working with RedHat Linux based systems.
• Experience using logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus and Jaeger.
• Knowledge of Oracle RDBMS desired.  Knowledge of PostgreSQL a plus.
• Knowledge of Kafka a plus.
• Understanding of Java programming concepts, awareness of Spring boot, Modern web client (TypeScript or JavaScript), Restful APIs a plus.
• Exposure to OpenShift, Docker a plus.

Desired Characteristics:

• End-to-end ownership and accountability for tasks is required, including gathering requirements, completing technical work, documenting, and supporting on delivery.
• Self-starter; comfortable pulling together information from multiple resources.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills, including debugging issues across complex systems involving multiple layers of technology.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new software development practices, languages, and tools.
• Excellent and clear communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Team player, dedicated, detail-oriented and customer focused.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.