DevOps Engineer

ROLE TITLE
DevOps Engineer
ROLE LOCATION(S)
Onshore - SI Office:
Lenexa, KS; Lubbock, TX; Colorado Springs, CO; Purchase, NY
UNIT
IT Agriculture & Mexico
ROLE SUMMARY
As a DevOps Engineer at the customer, you will play a pivotal role in streamlining our software development lifecycle by enhancing and preserving our automation systems for software releases. You will be instrumental in ensuring the integrity of our continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, fortifying the resilience of our application deployments, and advancing our monitoring capabilities. Collaborating with Senior DevOps Engineers and technical leads, you will contribute to the deployment of cutting-edge applications, optimizing processes to achieve efficiency, reliability, and scalability in our software operations.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and build DevOps processes and procedures around large-scale applications, inclusive of on-premise and cloud components.
• Design build-plans, assist developers with failures, and manage software configurations.
• Ensure end-to-end automated testing and continuous deployments succeed.
• Debug production outages and take actions resulting from root-cause analysis.
• Monitor production environment and act to keep systems stable and running.
• Provide off-hour support when needed to troubleshoot problems with mission-critical applications.
• Follow and maintain the standards set by the enterprise's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), along with compliance methodologies.
• Adhere to established processes, governance, and best practices to optimize the use of hardware, software, and personnel resources within the organization.
• Address technical incidents and problems in a timely manner, adhering to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and support principles.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 5 years' experience with Software engineering, microservices applications, message queues/busses and related technologies.
• Minimum of 2 years of DevOps experience.
• Experience with Linux administration, Windows administration, and IIS management.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure and/or on-premise server infrastructure, Azure preferred.
• Possess hands on experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technology.
• Candidate has a working knowledge of Containers (Docker) and Kubernetes.
• Candidate has experience working with automation tools.
• Possess knowledge of Ansible, Nginx, and Web concepts such as REST APIs, SPAs, and gRPC.
• Candidate has proven experience with SQL and Database Administration (SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle, etc.)
• Experience in application development tools (e.g., GIT, Visual Studio/Azure DevOps and source
• control), testing, and process and configuration management.
• Demonstrated fundamental understanding of modern platform technologies and industry standard methodologies.
• Experience with SDLC principles and implementation of web-based or back-end applications.
• Experience with monitoring tools and how to mine them for operational reporting.

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Candidate has knowledge and experience with design and implementation of security standards and patterns.
• Must be a team player with solid communication skills, excellent at problem solving / troubleshooting, and can embrace new challenges.
• Able to keep a positive attitude and can remain flexible in a dynamic environment.
• Candidate can manage time across multiple, simultaneous projects.
• Proven to work effectively as a member of a team, as well as the maturity to work independently.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.