Mid-Level DevOps Role

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DevOps Engineer / Senior Sytems Engineer

San Leandro, CA

Fulltime Position

 

Job Description:

The DevOps team is responsible for all systems and tooling employed by our Engineering Department, as well as driving DevOps standards and practices across the company. If you are an energetic, cross-functional professional who enjoys collaboration, open communication, and has a strong focus on successful business outcomes

 

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally with developer, program manager, and architecture teams to improve our developer platforms in support of OSIsoft critical programs and projects.

• Guide the work of less experienced DevOps engineers to create, maintain, and communicate details of systems designs and architecture.

• Build solutions to problems that interrupt availability, performance, and stability in our systems, services, and products.

• Perform a wide variety of technical and administrative duties in overall system design, development, and delivery.

• Develop, improve, and document operational practices and procedures to further champion a DevOps mindset.

• Support the automated lifecycle of Production, Staging/QA, and Development environments as needed in both on-premise and cloud environments.

• Provide the necessary infrastructure to maintain multiple dev/test environments, ensuring each environment is consistently set up, configured, and available for each release as scheduled.

• Design and assist in the architecture, maintenance, and support of build/release CI/CD.

• Trace complex build problems, release issues, and environmental issues.

• Research and test new technology capabilities and platforms; work to integrate them into existing solutions to drive improved productivity.

• Author and maintain scripting tools that reliably manage cloud applications & data pipelines.

• Write scripts, deployment frameworks, tracers, monitors, self-healing/auto remediation tools to mitigate downtime and manual support activities.

 

Technical Skills:

• Solid experience with Microsoft technology platforms and/or .NET programming experience

• Solid scripting skill set, particularly with PowerShell. Capable of writing functional and controller scripts consumable both internally and externally to our team.

• Experience authoring, documenting, and troubleshooting declarative scripting, specifically PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) or similar technologies.

• Ability to write script testing and validation using test frameworks such as Pester.

• Azure DevOps administrative experience. Capacity to support and teach the platform’s capabilities to improve developer team’s effectiveness using the platforms latest improvements.

• Hands-on experience with software version control systems including GIT and VSTC.

• Experience with Azure/AWS and authoring automated environment deployment and management using Azure Resource Manager/Cloud Formation templates.

• Experience with data center virtualization desired, specifically Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

• Hands-on experience building Containers. Working with Orchestration technologies, specially Docker Swarm and Kubernetes is a plus

• Automated deployment and configuration of Service Fabric, SQL Server, Azure Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Automation accounts, and a broader array of Microsoft based technologies.

• Experience with Security Compliance and managing security and access control in (Amazon Web Services) AWS (Identity Access Management) IAM, Azure AD, Windows Active Directory, and other identity infrastructure.

 

 

Qualifications:

 

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE or equivalent in an Operations environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related degree

• Software development proficiency consistent with a Senior Software Developer; Systems and Operation Support proficiency consistent with a Sr. Systems Engineer; or a combination of both

• Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Works efficiently and effectively with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

• Strong desire for driving automated solutions and writing tools and applications designed to streamline operational support. Experienced building solutions to improve Developer Productivity.

• Ability to think strategically, investigate, and act tactically; use solid judgment and know when to escalate.

• Strong troubleshooting and investigatory skills. Capable problem solver who can effectively marshal support from 3rd party vendors when required.