Staff Software Engineer (DevOps)

Job Description Summary

Staff Software Engineer (DevOps) will be responsible for providing build and release strategy for multiple Treasury & FS business applications. Manages Continuous Code Integration within SDLC. Works independently and is seen as a Technical Leader. The role demonstrates deep understanding of concurrent software development, its effect on build management and releasing the builds across versions and environments, as well as an understanding of cloud infrastructure management (AWS). The role will also include contributing to development of internal applications.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Define DevOps standards for individual product teams to follow
• Design, develop and implement backend/frontend software based on existing utility/tool frameworks.
• Ensure the standards are adhered to, for the development/deployment of internal applications.
• Own builds, releases and continuous integration process for multiple internally developed applications.
• Own, manage and improve release process. Focuses on quality, security and efficiency.
• Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.
• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables.
• Determine best practices and principals and promotes them across the team. Ensure adherence to security best practices
• Learn new build and releases techniques and methodologies and trains the team in the same.
• Work with developers and stakeholders to deliver quality software through the build and deployment system.
• Partner with and provides direction to fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Use industry best practices to improve Build, Release and Continuous integration processes.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.

• CI/CD technologies (Jenkins and/or Github actions)
• Strong understanding of Java programming language and its ecosystem
• Software packaging and containerization
• Git and Github
• Scripting (e.g. bash)
• Familiarity with AWS services (Certification beneficial)

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Cloud configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes/Helm
• Docker & Docker compose
• Maven
• Java coding
• Debugging skills
• Security & Certificate knowledge

• Contributes to driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality
• Expert in developing code for other developers to learn from

• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Experience in building scalable and secure pipelines
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (E.g. Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Applies values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions in ambiguity and with uncertain consequences.
  Roles and Responsibilities
  
  In this role, you will:
• Define DevOps standards for individual product teams to follow
• Design, develop and implement backend/frontend software based on existing utility/tool frameworks.
• Ensure the standards are adhered to, for the development/deployment of internal applications.
• Own builds, releases and continuous integration process for multiple internally developed applications.
• Own, manage and improve release process. Focuses on quality, security and efficiency.
• Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.
• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables.
• Determine best practices and principals and promotes them across the team. Ensure adherence to security best practices
• Learn new build and releases techniques and methodologies and trains the team in the same.
• Work with developers and stakeholders to deliver quality software through the build and deployment system.
• Partner with and provides direction to fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Use industry best practices to improve Build, Release and Continuous integration processes.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Skillset
  
  Must
• CI/CD technologies (Jenkins and/or Github actions)
• Strong understanding of Java programming language and its ecosystem
• Software packaging and containerization
• Git and Github
• Scripting (e.g. bash)
• Familiarity with AWS services (Certification beneficial)
• Beneficial:
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Cloud configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes/Helm
• Docker & Docker compose
• Maven
• Java coding
• Debugging skills
• Security & Certificate knowledge
• Desired Characteristics
  
  Technical Expertise:
• Contributes to driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality
• Expert in developing code for other developers to learn from
• Business Acumen:
• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Experience in building scalable and secure pipelines
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (E.g. Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective
• Leadership:
• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill
• Personal Attributes:
• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Applies values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions in ambiguity and with uncertain consequences.