Development Operations Engineer
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
● Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to
improve and expand upon them
● Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to
facilitate their collaboration
● Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions
and demonstrating them to other members of the team
● Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, manpower and time
necessary
● Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution
● Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and
software needed for projects to be completed efficiently
● Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve
processes companywide
● Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and
implementation of initiatives
● Analyse current development code repositories and build processes, make recommendations
and implement improvements to the deployment processes to align to a modern CI/CD pipeline
● Analyse deployed infrastructure to assess the optimal way that applications should be deployed
● Manage release deployment process for the web application and any other systems for
which a CI/CD process is appropriate
● Collaborate with peers within development, quality assurance, technology operations, business
analysis and project management to develop and ensure best practices and principles for CI/CD
are implemented and followed
● Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including time and scope involved
● Work with peers in the technical operations team to maintain hardware and software needed for
projects to be completed efficiently
● Recommend performance enhancements by performing gap analysis, identifying alternative
solutions, and assisting with modifications.
● Review and maintain all DevOps development work ensuring that technical/functional
documentation and solution designs are accurately prepared, maintained, and cataloged.
● Act as a point of contact for technical and functional issues as well as high priority requests.
● Actively investigate new DevOps technologies and make recommendations to management
regarding best practices, system reliability and performance and find cost-effective solutions
QUALIFICATIONS:
● Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering (or equivalent) preferred.
● 3+ years technology experience with hands-on Sysop and DevOps experience.
● Strong knowledge and experience with Agile methodology and/or an established release
protocol.
● Experience with working on multiple concurrent developments in a fast pace environment.
● Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation
● Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
● Proven ability to implement and execute on DevOps processes in other companies
● Proven experience developing CI/CD solutions using a Microsoft .NET software stack and
Microsoft server technologies
● Demonstrated experience with microservices architecture
● Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or Software Engineering is preferred
● Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating
systems and their implications
● Advanced and creative problem solving skills.
● Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
● Ability to understand and communicate the business impact of technical issues.
● Experience collaborating with application development teams, project managers, application
and enterprise architects, application technical leads, vendor partners (both onsite and
offshore), and other application development teams.
● Curious and inquisitive with strong analytic and decision making abilities.
● Motivated and self-starter.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
● Full stack experience in all stages of the software development life cycle including architecture,
design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
● Experience with Amazon Web Services
● Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment
environments, preferably using Bitbucket with GIT.
● Knowledge of configuration management and development tools
● Experience with microservices architecture
● Experience in a Microsoft environment, including PowerShell scripting, configuring IIS, MS SQL,
scheduled tasks, services, etc.
● Experience in a Linux environment including bash scripting, nginx, RabbitMQ, Redis
● Experience with issue tracking and resolution systems such as JIRA.
● Experience with change process management.
