DevOps Engineer (Cloud Platforms) DevOps Engineers work closely with clients and IT Team members to understand the departmental stakeholder requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. They are responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment, and configuration activities. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to, working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, architecting, implementing/updating solution, build and executing test plans, performing quality reviews, managing operations, and triaging ad fixing operational issues.
DevOps Engineers require the ability to interact, develop, engineer, and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with clients, vendors, partners, and all levels of our staff.
Essential Functions: - Create and distribute development estimates and operational requirements to enable accurate planning with realistic timelines.
- Assess client needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes).
- Write and communicate business requirements and functional specifications for the implementation of client solutions.
- Analyze client operations to uncover opportunities for improvements.
- Work closely with architects to assure all systems are in line with IT's long-term strategy.
- Translate business and technical requirements into test cases, test scenarios, and scripts.
- Develop and/or implement reusable components.
- Code and document custom test automation frameworks.
- Maintain new and existing object reference files.
- Build automated deployments using configuration management technology.
- Work with Release Management to ensure modules are production-ready.
- Assist in establishing requirements, methods, and procedures for routine maintenance.
- Evaluate existing applications and platforms and provide recommendations for improving performance by conducting gap analysis, identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications.
- Participation in an on-call rotation.
Qualifications & Technical Skills: - Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or other related field or equivalent work experience.
- Typically requires three to five years of scripting experience.
- Experience working in applications, systems, or IT operations.
- Knowledge of an agile team environment and process.
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
- Requires working knowledge of two or more programming languages; Python, Perl, or Ruby preferred.
- Comfort with frequent, incremental code, testing, and deployment.
- Experience developing in a modern web framework (e.g., Django) a plus.