Principal DevOps Engineer

About the role

Collaborates with software engineers, systems administrators, and quality engineers to automate the delivery and monitoring of software systems for internal and external credit union use.

Responsibilities

• Advocates for DevOps processes by working closely with other IT professionals from across the organization.
• Works with teams and resources necessary to implement and transition to a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, with a continuous focus on security, quality, performance, scalability, and high reliability.
• Provides operational support to software engineers and quality engineers while acting as a liaison between the IT infrastructure teams and software development teams.
• Coordinates with software engineers, systems administrators, and network engineers to help ensure standardization of technologies between different projects.
• Assists in troubleshooting and resolving system issues and outages.
• May be required to work occasional evenings and weekend hours to support production releases and resolve system issues.
• Works with IT professionals across the organization in the establishment of standards and best practices, and to reduce complexity.
• Continuously introduces new ways of improving and scaling systems and services, including microservices architecture, cloud computing, and other evolving technologies.
• Leads and mentors the DevOps team in best practices.
• Determines and implements processes to ensure the success of all DevOps, developers, and quality engineers.
• Champions DevOps practices throughout the Credit Union by providing guidance, mentorship, and best practices.
• Consults across multiple teams and is considered a top-level technical expert in the field.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of DevOps experience.
• Minimum 3 years of DevOps experience in a senior level position.
• Experience in contributing to the standardization of SDLC processes and methodologies across the organization, for both internally developed software and externally acquired systems.
• Windows server experience, including system installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting.
• Linux experience, including system installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting.
• Expertise with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash.
• Expertise with infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Expertise with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience in implementing Azure at the organization level.
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Octopus or GitHub.
• Experience in container creation and orchestration.
• Experience in Kubernetes administration.
• Experience in Kubernetes implementation.
• Willingness and ability to contribute to software development tasks as assigned, with a proven ability to implement and troubleshoot code changes in C#, MVC, .NET Core, or other languages.
• Familiarity with test automation framework implementation for both UI and API testing.
• Expertise managing source in Git (repositories, branching, merging, etc.).
• Experience with MS SQL server.
• Experience automating integration tests with tools such as PostMan, SoapUI, XUnit.
• Expertise with standard IT security practices such as encryption, certificates and key management.
• Expertise guiding cross-organization teams in DevOps practices.
• Experience with documenting current and new processes in a way that is usable by others.
• Experience with teaching and guiding DevOps practices to others.
• Familiarity with banking or credit union regulatory and security requirements is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in computer science, information systems, or related field.
• 4 years combined education and experience in a DevOps role.

Skills

• Experience with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash.
• Expertise with infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Expertise with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience in implementing Azure at the organization level.
• Expertise with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Octopus or GitHub.
• Experience in container creation and orchestration.
• Experience in Kubernetes administration.
• Experience in Kubernetes implementation.
• Expertise managing source in Git (repositories, branching, merging, etc.).
• Experience with MS SQL server.
• Experience automating integration tests with tools such as PostMan, SoapUI, XUnit.
• Expertise with standard IT security practices such as encryption, certificates and key management.
• Expertise guiding cross-organization teams in DevOps practices.