Staff DevOps Engineer

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

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.

Education Qualification

For roles outside USA:

Bachelor''s Degree in with advanced experience.

For roles in USA:Bachelor''s Degree in with minimum years of experience 6 years

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)

Skillset

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

Business Acumen:

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

Leadership:

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

Personal Attributes:

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 inambiguity and with uncertain consequences.