DevOps Engineer

Our client, a leading retirement services company, is seeking anDevOps Engineer

• Administer/upgrade/troubleshoot/maintain/configure mission-critical developer tools and associated plugins.
• Build and implement new development tools.
• Onboard applications and teams to the developer tools.
• Work with application teams to document strategies, processes and technologies that will be used for automating deployments on newly onboarded Athene applications.
• Collaborate effectively with multiple development teams to solution CICD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Integrate and implement automation between developer tools through scripting and APIs.
• Work on daily customer support requests for administering developer tools.
• Setup monitoring/logging and notifications for supported developer tools.
• Work with SecOps to maintain credentials, certificates and mitigate security vulnerabilities in supported tools.
• Automate the deployment, administration, and operation of critical developer tools on cloud-native and data center architectures.
• Design and build tools to report on deployment efficiency and gain visibility into production systems.
• Initiate ongoing meetings with application developers and DevOps engineers to identify and understand the DevOps tool solutions available.
• Establish and document strategies for automating manual deployments.
• Drive, track, and provide status on the efforts towards automated deployments for each application.
• Create implementation plans and timelines for identified applications to test and execute proposed changes to developer tools or automated deployment strategies.
• Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies.
• Work with DevOps engineers, vendors and application developers to research, devise, and document capabilities and opportunities for automated verification within the DevOps tools, pertaining to version control identification, real-time version tracking, and code comparison between environments of application software.
• Own the analysis and documentation processes for all developer tools.
• Contribute to the architecture and design of our services, infrastructure, and delivery processes.
• Translate development team use cases into infrastructure requirements.?
• Work with the deployment analysts and management to understand the deployment audit controls, approvals, best practices, and procedures for deployments.
• Work with cross-functional teams to administer
• Help educate and train Athene's developers on developer tools and best practices.
• Use opensource technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases.?
• Support development teams
• Support on-call rotations and emergency response.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• 4+ years' experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role in a large corporation.
• Expertise using git, Jenkins, and Artifactory
• Expertise with Linux (command line / networking) for tools and systems administration and maintenance
• Experience in automating production systems with Python, or scripting equivalent
• Development knowledge and usage of API's
• Administrative experience with Ansible, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jira, Confluence.
• Working knowledge of relational databases, preferably MS SQL, or Postgres
• Experience using SaltStack, Chocolatey, Grafana, Flyway, Docker, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Elk, Catchpoint, Kubernetes, Opsgenie, Flow, Terraform, CyberArk
• Experience using AWS Managed Products (RDS, EC2, ECS) - AWS certification preferred
• Strong knowledge and experience of DevOps and Agile development teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills, team player, enjoy collaborating across teams and work well in a cross-functional and cross-cultural environment.
• Strong analysis, research, investigation, and evaluation skills, with a structured approach to problem solving
• Aptitude to learn and grasp new technologies and concepts quickly
• Ability to work and effectively prioritize in a highly dynamic work environment
• Dependable, passionate, and self-motivated
• Easy to work with, have a positive attitude
• Pragmatic and focused on efficiency, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both written and oral appropriately scaled for technical and managerial audience
• Familiarity with GitHub Advanced Security, CyberArk and SonarQube