Principal DevOps Engineer I

We are seeking a talented individual to install a DevOps culture and create an enterprise-wide cutting-edge CI/CD solution to enable fully automated on-premise and cloud-based build and deployment pipeline with IaC capabilities. As a SME within our growing DevOps team, you would lead efforts in architecting and help to implement and optimizing end-to-end CI/CD capabilities for our expanding on-prem and multi-cloud operations. The team is looking to add a member who is an expert in CI/CD, has exceptional communication skills, strong cloud skills, and is a thought leader in addressing the needs of DevOps organizations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• As a player-coach, establish, scale, lead, and mentor Team Members towards our DevOps pursuits.
• Provide DevOps Tools and CI/CD expertise to software development teams across the enterprise.
• Help build a reusable standard CI/CD pipeline model with built-in quality gates, security, and cutting-edge tools and automation.
• Drive process automation focused on eliminating manual steps in application build and deployment, integrating compliance and quality gates in the process.
• Lead discussion and guide technical teams regarding operational, technical, and procedural best practices.
• Evangelize a fully automated product build and release process, driving a push-button deploy attitude and vision.
• Work with program teams to understand their product development requirements, guide in embracing DevOps principles, prescribed toolchain, and pipeline framework.
• Be highly familiar with cloud services, having supported large scale production deployments on one or more of these platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud GCP).
• Build, release, and configuration management of production systems.
• System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains.
• Remain abreast of technology advancements for future cloud, software, and other relative implementations and capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance in architecture and DevOps process improvements.
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
• Ensure critical system security using best in class cloud security solutions.
• Create and update documentation for the operational process, procedures, and environment configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years designing, implementing CI/CD solutions, and DevOps related practices.
• 8+ years of cloud computing experience.
• Version Control: Experience with version control systems such as GitHub, GitLab and code branching principles.
• Outstanding experience with build and release process and associated tools - building CI and deployment pipelines and hands-on knowledge of applicable tools chain such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity, Azure DevOps or like build orchestration tools, Artifactory, GitHub, GitLab, SonarCube, Coverity or similar.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code tools (such as Terraform, Scalr, packer, CDK, Bicep)
• Strong Experience in Configuration as code tooling in Ansible, Chef/Puppet
• Familiarity with Orchestration and automation tooling like Rundeck
• Strong experience in automation and one of scripting language such as Python, Ruby or similar.
• Experience with container and container management technologies (Docker, Swarm, Nomad, Packer).
• Experience with build management tools such as Nuget, Maven, ANT, or Gradle.
• Solid knowledge of cloud architecture and experience with using a broad range of cloud technologies (such as AWS/Azure/GCP and their services EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail).
• Understanding of network configurations (such as SSL and PIP).
• Experience in load balancing/reverse proxy configuration with HAProxy, NGINX or similar
• Experience in implementing DevOps best practices with the ability to define operational processes.
• Very familiar with organizing work using Agile principles (story backlog, Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience with agile backlog management tools such as Atlassian Jira or similar.
• Ability to solve problems by considering available information, prioritizing and making timely decisions.
• Familiar with monitoring tooling such as Elastic or Splunk.
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
• Experience maintaining parallel development environments in support of multi-project development and inter-dependencies.