Lead Software Engineer- DevOps

About the Role

The role is for a Lead Software Engineer Dev Ops candidate with solid and successful background driving CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as code, configuration management, monitoring, and original tools development for enterprise software and systems running in clouds as well private datacenters and on on prem VM and Kubernetes clouds using Python, Groovy, shell scripting, Perl, and Java. This role will design and support continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and the Engineering process for WSI eCommerce websites and apps, retail stores, supply chain, and call center applications through devops tooling and direct support of software engineers in testing and pre-production environments. Through original code and integration, provide enhancements to CI/CD tooling and original applications that accelerate feature delivery by reducing human effort, removing process stop points, increasing repeatability, and providing self-service. The successful candidate must have great communication skills, a passion for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, and a strong sense of ownership. A proven track record of designing, developing, and maintaining dependable, repeatable, mission-critical build pipelines, systems and products is a must.

Responsibilities

• Assists in interpreting devops product descriptions and designing and defining the solutions
• Works with Architecture to create technical designs and drive the evolution of our devops

architecture.

• Programs original tools, enhancements to existing tools and pipelines, and new services in Python, Java, and Groovy
• Performs peer code review
• Proactively idenCfies automaCon and self-service opportunities
• ConCnuously monitors the health of CI/CD tools and takes correcCve acCon on issues idenCfied
• Responds to trouble reports regarding CI/CD tooling and invesCgates and corrects issues
• Responds to requests for assistance triaging custom and 3rd party-applicaCon environments
• InvesCgates pipeline and build failures, idenCfies root cause, corrects
• Supports ProducCon Support in use of release and other tooling
• Researches, designs, implements new technologies within CI/CD and as standalone applicaCons
• Collaborates with feature developers to onboard/integrate applications according to WSI best practices
• Supports development team delivery process through SDLC up to handoff to production support teams
• Collaborates with Infrastructure team to provision and deprovision capacity
• Leads or participates in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems
• Works on many phases of a project or entire projects of high complexity
• Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation
• Contributes to and enforces best practices
• Participates in establishing strategies and standards
• Performs systems resource optimization activities
• Leads or participates in implementation of resources management and monitoring methods, tools and thresholds
• Supports resolution of production incidents
• Provides work breakdown planning and estimation
• Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines
• Suggests process improvements and best practices
• Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals
• Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers
• Works with contract resources, providing guidance and assessing the quality of work
• Actively shares knowledge (technical and professional) through shared resources and informal teachings
• Inspires teamwork and guides the team members in task completion
• Mentors, cross trains co-workers within area of expertise
• Self directing and provides direction for others
• Achieves team consent and buy-in.

Criteria

• 8 years of relevant DevOps experience
• Docker and Kubernetes stack expertise
• Experience using Helm/Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments
• Jenkins and Jenkins Pipeline experCse
• Programming expertise in Groovy, Python, shell, and/or Java
• Experience with Maven
• git and GitHub Enterprise expertise
• Node/npm experience
• Expertise interpreting Java stack trace and Node error logs
• Bachelors or advanced degree in computer science or related field