Senior DevOps System Engineer job vacancy

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When you join Sallie Mae, you become a champion for all students.

We're on a mission to power confidence as students begin their unique journey. To help them plan their higher education, successfully finish, and prepare for life after school. To help them Start smart. Learn big.

Students need guidance navigating this important time in their life. They need someone who acknowledges that their education path is unique. They need a partner willing to evolve and not only meet but surpass their expectations. We're changing. Because students need a better way.

We're looking for people who are excited to drive this transformation. To break barriers and think of new ways to adapt, help, and create better experiences for students-and for each other.

This is where diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and perspectives matter. It's where you're empowered to bring your authentic self to work.

Feeling your best allows you to do your best. Our benefits take care of the whole you-from physical and mental to financial and professional. You'll get opportunities to further your education and career, support for you and your family (including your pets!), paid time off to volunteer for the things that matter to you, and more.

We're obsessed with impact and making a real difference. For us, that means putting relationships first, asking "why not?" when tackling challenges, and continuously learning new skills.

Come do more than join something, change something. For students, for future generations, for the future of education.

What You'll Contribute

As part of this team you will build applications that provide deployment automation for our application platforms to help Sallie Mae transition into a full CI/CD pipeline including automatic builds, pipeline testing, and releases and leveraging cloud native services and solutions. In this role you will work with other top developers in building modern DevOps solutions that scale in a high-volume transactional environment.

What You'll Do

Architects and leads the design, development and testing of CI/CD solutions. Builds automation and tests to streamline the code to cash pipeline. Identifies opportunities for automation and champion the refactoring of new and legacy code as we work towards eliminating technical debt.
Leads discussion with multiple teams to identify optimal approach, dependencies, tasks, and seek opportunities for automation; acts as coach and mentor to agile team members, helps recruit and onboards other top-talented developers and develops professionals.
Continually improves craft as a software engineer by learning and leveraging the latest design patterns, principles and technology. Leads training and Communities of Practice (CoPs), and reads and implements solutions in related materials to stay ahead of the technology curve.

The above information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job; it is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees in this role.

What You Have

Minimum Education, Skills and Experience Required

College Degree or equivalent work experience.
7+ years of DevOps experience with a strong background in Cloud services - or similar relevant experience in building automated deployment systems.
3+ years of experience architecting, designing and building cloud solutions either in AWS or Azure or GCP.
3+ years of experience with Cloud PaaS offerings.
Application development background (full-stack) - Ability to write code/script using Python, PHP, Django, Java, C# or similar.
Experience with automating application deployment, continuous delivery, and continuous integration (VSTS, Jenkins).
Infrastructure Automation (eg, Puppet, Chef, Ansible).
Experience with Source Control.
Experience with virtualization and containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant).
Deep experience in a production services operating environment.
Experience with Rest API, Micro services, etc.
Experience with any DB2, MYSql DB & any of the NoSQL technologies such as Cassandra, Couch DB or Mongo.
Experience with test driven development (TDD).
Experience with Agile methodology.
Experience working in a team-oriented fast paced, distributed and collaborative environment.
Excellent troubleshooting skills, self-motivated, results-driven and well organized.
A self-motivated leader who is results driven, and media or technology enthusiast and someone that can mentor junior developers.
Must value operating in a collaborative and cooperative environment.

Preferred Education, Skills and Experience

Experience in Linux Administration including Bash/shell scripting.
Experience administering services on AWS (RDS, VPC, RedShift, EMR, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation).
Cloud application deployment and monitoring.
Experience with Git.
Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services.
Programming experience multiple scripting and programming languages and supporting technologies such as Reagent/React, Clojure/Clojurescript, AWS Lamda, Java, Python, R, Ruby, Go, bash, Swift, Beanstalk, VSTS.
Experience with Event Driven and event sourced architectures leveraging microservices.
Experience designing/developing robust API's for mission critical, high volume systems (RESTful, GraphQL).
Experience working in financial services industry, compliance regulated environment.
Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly.

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ID: #43745926
State: Indiana Indianapolis 46201 Indianapolis USA
City: Indianapolis
Salary: USD TBD TBD
Job type: Permanent
Showed: 2022-07-01
Deadline: 2022-08-29
Category: Et cetera