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FTD Companies

Sr DevOps Engineer - Remote

Downers Grove, IL / Remote

Position Description:

This position description provides the minimum job requirements as additional duties may be assigned by supervisors. The requirements listed are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities to qualify for the position. This job description is not a contract and does not change the employment "at will" relationship. FTD reserves its right to amend the job description at any time at its discretion.

Purpose of Position:

The Sr DevOps Engineer will enable FTD to efficiently deliver and operate high quality, secure software at scale. As an individual contributor you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote DevOps principles and practices and implement world class self-service CI/CD tooling. You will provision, operate, and optimize cloud resources in Google Cloud Platform, and take a lead role in managing the health of applications and infrastructure supporting FTD.com and Proflowers.com.

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Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with technology teams to design, build, document and support CI/CD automation leveraging Jenkins, Git-based version control systems (Bitbucket preferred), and other tools.
  • Provision and manage cloud resources and Kubernetes configuration using Terraform, Google Cloud SDK, kubectl, Google Cloud Console and other tools.
  • Automate repeatable processes with Linux shell scripts, Python and/or other tools.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve an array of issues in CI/CD, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and other technologies.
  • Promote development and security best practices and implement automation to support these practices, with a "shift left" mentality.
  • Implement and maintain effective infrastructure and application monitoring and logging solutions to improve visibility, observability and incident detection, response and prevention.
  • Create and maintain technical, procedural, and educational documentation related to FTD's DevOps ecosystem.
  • Embrace a culture of enablement, customer service, continuous improvement, transparency, and fiscal responsibility.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Minimum of 6-8 years' experience designing, delivering, and operating scalable, available, high-performance applications and supporting infrastructure.
  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Advanced hands-on experience with continuous integration and delivery / deployment methodologies and technologies.
  • Advanced experience with computer, networking, security, storage, monitoring, logging, serverless and other technologies in Google Cloud Platform (preferred), Amazon Web Services, and/or Microsoft Azure.
  • Strong experience with containerization (e.g. Docker), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
  • Working knowledge of Helm and Service Mesh (e.g. Istio).
  • Proficient understanding of microservices principles and orchestration.
  • Excellence in navigating and prioritizing multiple simultaneous responsibilities of varying scope and complexity.
  • Ability to effectively articulate technical concepts to audiences at all organizational levels via oral, written and other non-verbal communications.
  • Demonstrated desire and ability to be self-directed, take ownership of issues, and establish a prominent level of credibility.
  • Ability to work well independently and within dynamic, cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent understanding of Internet concepts, technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS / SSL, etc.).
  • Experience with rapid detection and troubleshooting of technical issues using various monitoring and application performance management tools.
  • Proficiency with shell scripting, Python and/or other scripting languages in a Linux environment.
  • Ability to operate effectively under pressure, both independently and in collaboration with other resources.
  • Ability to rapidly learn new technologies via mentoring, formal training, and independent research and testing.
  • A genuine desire and willingness to share knowledge effectively with others.
  • Familiarity with modern application languages and concepts, with hands-on e-commerce software development experience preferred

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Client-provided location(s): Downers Grove, IL, USA
Job ID: FTD-5000858877200
Employment Type: Other

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