Lead Devops Engineer

An Amazing Career Opportunity for Lead Devops Engineer

Job ID: 35724

Profile Summary:
A rewarding career at HID Global beckons you! We are looking for a Lead Devops Engineer with 7-10 years’ experience, who will be involved in the full life cycle of software application, for some of our Product Lines, to build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments.

You are accountable for delivering good technical architecture and a quality deliverable by working collaboratively with software engineering, infrastructure, and Cloud Security Teams to automate deployment and operation of our systems. You will be expected to work on complex, major, or highly visible tasks in support of multiple projects that require multiple areas of expertise.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Develop/build IT solutions to meet business requirements.
• Integrate solutions with other applications and platforms outside the framework.
• Design, develops, and implements reusable IaC components.
• Write scripts to automate build and deployments on AWS Cloud and On-Premise data centers.
• Automate, build and provide production systems support that may include duties such as deployment, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting Linux/Windows servers.
• Automate deployment of and support Linux and Windows based infrastructure services (web, nfs, sftp, DNS, LDAP etc)
• Automate and deployment of and support Cloud based network services (load balancers, routers, firewalls)
• Orchestrate deployment of application & infrastructure clusters within a Public Cloud environment utilizing a Cloud Management Platform.
• Performance monitoring and tuning of the Operating System and applications for most optimal operational efficiency.
• Document existing and new public cloud deployments using Run Books and cloud architecture diagrams.
• Implement processes to standardize best practices and procedures, capacity planning and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with technical/business teams assessing requirements and recommend solutions.
• Maintain QA and Production configuration using automation tools
• Code and documents custom test automation frameworks.
• Perform script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations.
• Set up and maintains the test environments for both manual and automated testing.
• Build automated deployments using configuration management technology.
• Automate deployment of new modules, upgrades, and fixes to the production environment.
• Document and completes knowledge transfer to production support.
• Work with Release Management to ensure modules are production ready.
• Verify the functionality of components and services and ensures deployment meets client's expectations

Technical Requirements:

• Must have Experience working in IaC environment and applications, systems or IT operations.
• Experience working in an agile team environment.
• Experience working with public cloud, AWS is a must.
• Experience working with Cloud Management Platform – RightScale Preferred.
• Experience configuring and supporting Linux and Windows based infrastructure services (web, nfs, sftp, DNS, LDAP, pgp etc)
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools such as team city, Jenkins preferred
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet a must.
• Experience with some aspect(s) of computer security: network security, application security, security protocols, cryptography, IAM, Active Directory, and ADFS
• Understanding of Load Balancers, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS certificate management, DNS, and Network Routing
• Experience with AWS services and plugins
• Experience with container technologies Docker, Kubernetes is required
• Experience using ElasticSearch/ELK stack for application monitoring.
• Worked with at least 2 to 3 application servers such as JBoss, IIS weblogic
• Knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs.
• Knowledge of XML, and JSON file formats.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements, and develop alternate solutions.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to effectively communicate findings both written and orally using both technical and non-technical terms.

Preferred Qualities:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• Typically requires overall 7 to 10 years of analysis and programming experience.
• Experience with AWS services and plugins
• Experience configuring and supporting Linux and Windows based infrastructure services (web, nfs, sftp, DNS, LDAP, pgp etc)
• Must have Experience working in IaC environment and applications, systems or IT operations.
• Worked with at least 2 to 3 application servers such as JBoss, IIS weblogic

Additional Preferred Skills

• AWS Associate or Professional level certification is a plus

Why apply?

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.

This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.

HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.