Location: Any CSI Office in Eastern or Central Time Zones

DevOps Engineer Is collaborate with management, product owners, developers, and engineers to plan, develop, and implement solutions to optimize and automate business and technical processes. They discover, prove, and promulgate new tools and practices by reading, researching, testing, and experimenting; spending time creating proof-of-concept applications, pipelines, processes, and software deployments. They act as thought leaders to spread and teach new practices or tools.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Automates and optimizes the deployment of applications and infrastructure both on-prem and in the cloud by interacting with management, product owners, developers, and engineers to find pain points in their day-to-day lives and determine what portions of their process can be automated or streamlined.
• Supports and maintains on-prem and cloud environments and/or containers by helping to design, deploy, and securely maintain virtual environments that will ensure developers have an environment to help deploy their application stacks in using modern practices.
• Implements and maintains automation by writing, testing, deploying, and maintaining the appropriate tools.
• Creates extensible and modular software packages and templates which can be re-used across our organization.
• Solves the general problem rather than today’s case.
• Writes and maintains documentation for the tools and services we build.
• Acts as an example and advocate for best practices; guards the team against amassing technical debt. Meets new problems with enthusiasm and new learners with patience and generosity.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

PRIMARY RESULTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR ACHIEVING

• Reduction in time spent performing manual and tedious activities.
• Increased stability and standardization of environments.
• Reliability and scalability of cloud resources.
• Ensure efficiency of resources by quickly spinning up and tearing down environments to test and QA their applications.
• Reduced human error and downtime of manual processes.
• CSI teams learn and adopt new tools and practices which increase velocity and reduce costs.
• Ensure timelines are accurately communicated to management as well as meeting the agreed-upon deadlines.
• Ensuring the work that has been produced is documented and communicated properly to the organization.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education & Certifications:

Education or job knowledge equivalent to college or university undergraduate education.

Azure 900 Fundamentals Certification preferred

Terraform Associate Certification preferred

Experience:

The minimum amount of relevant work experience required to successfully perform the job is at least two (2) years.

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with Cloud
• Hands-on experience in continuous delivery and continuous integration of CI/CD pipelines
• Proficient with Git, Git Flow, Azure DevOps
• Strong hands-on expertise in diverse DevSecOps concepts/tools, especially on Azure DevOps, Pipelines, GitHub, and GitHub actions
• Ability to assess the requirement, and environment and suggest the right tools/technologies
• Good knowledge of PowerShell/Shell scripting
• Expertise in Debugging and providing solutions and workarounds
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs and consuming from .Net Technologies and PowerShell/Shell
• Knowledge of different monitoring and logging solutions available on the Cloud, preferably on Azure
• Excellent communication, presentation, and coding abilities

Required Skills:

• Mathematical skills
• Communication skills - written and oral with the ability to address the target audience
• Strong business acumen
• Reasoning skills
• Computer Programming and Scripting skills (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.)
• Leadership skills
• Project Management skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Collaboration skills
• Systems Networking skills

RELATIONSHIP BUILDING

This position requires regular contact both inside and outside the company at all organizational levels and involves considerable tact, discretion, and persuasion in order to obtain willing action and consent.

DECISION MAKING

The position requires frequent decision-making and the ability to plan and perform unusual or difficult work with general operation methods/procedures.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

General Supervision. Assignments are both task-oriented and objective-oriented. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and overall adequacy and accuracy.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands:

The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, hear, and use hands to finger, handle or feel. This position requires close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less) and the basic need to look at a computer screen 8 hours a day.

Colorado, California, and Washington Applicants Only:

This position is not open for Colorado, California, or Washington applicants.

CSI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetics, or any other legally protected basis.

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