Staff DevOps Engineer

Overview

Staff Build & Release Engineer will be responsible for providing build and release strategy for highly complex as well as parallel and concurrent releases for a Software Product. 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

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In This Role, You Will

• Own builds, releases and continuous integration process for large and complex releases of a product and at times expands the scope across multiple concurrent releases.
  
  
• Own, manage and improve release process. Focuses on scale and efficiency. Deploys the right builds across environments.
  
  
• Manage key deliverables and mentors junior team members.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams.
  
  
• Determine best practices and principals and promotes them across the team.
  
  
• Demonstrate expert knowledge in developing and executing automated builds and scripts.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Bachelor's Degree in with advanced experience.

For roles in USA:Bachelor's Degree in with minimum years of experience6years

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise

The person in this role will be responsible for all the CI/CD pipelines required to build and test the different modeling services. This includes:

• Build pipelines
  
  
• Test pipelines (including integrated solution tests environment)
  
  
• Release pipelines
  
  
• Documentation of pipelines (integrated with the GridOS documentation)
  
  
• Software Installation guides (documentation of the processes to install the products)
  
  

Must

• CI/CD technologies (Jenkins and/or Github actions)
  
  
• Promotion pipelines
  
  
• Software packaging and containerization
  
  
• Maven
  
  
• Docker & Docker compose
  
  
• Kubernetes
  
  
• Git and Github
  
  
• Code coverage
  
  
• Documentation related to installation and maintenance (SIMG)
  
  

Good to have

• Helm, Github actions
  
  
• Kubernetes operator
  
  
• Scripting
  
  
• Debugging skills
  
  
• Security & Certificate knowledge
  
  

• Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
  
  
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work.
  
  
• Applies values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions in
  
  

ambiguity and with uncertain consequences.

Note

Note

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes