DEVOPS ENGINEER

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Summary

We are seeking an experienced DevOps engineer who can streamline the software development lifecycle to improve developer productivity, delivery speed, and code quality. They will work closely with development team to identify and resolve pain points and inefficiencies in delivery workflows. Key responsibilities include automating delivery processes and maintaining the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. This role will have an opportunity to learn data integration tools.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (include the following, and other duties may be assigned):

• Streamline the software development lifecycle by identifying pain points and productivity barriers and determining ways to resolve them. 
• Collaborate closely with development team to understand their current build and release processes and make recommendations for improvement.
• Provide guidance to development teams to improve performance and operability of the solutions they develop.
• Build and maintain the CI/CD pipelines to improve developer productivity, agility and code quality.
• Develop and continuously improve automation solutions to enable teams to build and deploy code efficiently and consistently.
• Build automated testing to reduce manual effort and improve product quality.
• Ensure that systems meet business and customer needs for reliability and availability.
• Monitor and manage application performance and service quality, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cases and issue resolution. Implement and improve alerting.
• Work closely with development team to analyze and troubleshoot complex production issues. 
• Prepare design and implementation documentation.
• Promote DevOps principles and culture across the development teams.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
• 3+ years of relevant DevOps experience
• 3+ years experience in software engineering
• Solid experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Glue, Lambda, and RDS
• Proven Experience and proficiency in developing CI/CD workflows using Git and GitHub
• Proficiency in one or more coding languages like Python, Java
• Experience with development platforms like Snowflake, AWS, Azure
• Strong automation scripting skills and practical experience with AWS, especially using Lambda
• Experience with using Infrastructure as Code like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Experience in configuration management, test-driven development and release management
• Strong collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to work well as part of a team
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with agile development and strong understanding of DevOps principles
• Ability to investigate and analyze information, and to draw conclusions
• Flexibility, adaptability and desire to learn new languages and technologies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with incident management tools like ServiceNow, Jira

Competencies To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Technical Expertise: Maintains current technical knowledge and best practices and actively builds new skills.  Provides ideas to help solve business and technical problems for the organization through technical expertise.  Able to work across multiple platforms and applications and see interconnections with some guidance. 
• Action Orientation: Uses time effectively to complete tasks in a thorough and timely manner. Focuses on most important items first. Maintains high levels of personal organization and works at high level of efficiency and rapid pace.  Seeks out challenges and initiates action on issues even when scope is unclear.  Maintains composure in times of stress. 
• Collaboration: Understands the importance of relationships to ensure team success.  Builds positive relationships, uses tact in sensitive situations; listens well to various points of view; relates well to others at all levels.  Speaks and writes in a clear and concise manner.  Takes time to get to know others outside of his/her immediate functional area.   Aligns personal goals to team and organizational goals. 
• Communication: Establishes rapport and is straightforward and approachable.  Listens carefully, asks pertinent questions, responds effectively and adapts personal style to suit the audience.  Actively gathers customer viewpoint and feedback to aid in decision-making. Speaks, writes and presents in a clear and concise manner.  Uses effective meeting facilitation tools and techniques to attain meeting objectives in a timely manner. Establishes and maintains positive long-term relationships with a diverse network of contacts, including internal and external customers. 

Customer Engagement: Engaging external customers and internal resources to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes in a way that provides an optimal experience for the customer. 

Weber-Stephen Products LLC is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor.