Devops Engineer

Position Title: DevOps Engineer - Releases

Location: US

Employment Type: Full Time

Onsite, Remote or Hybrid: Remote

Department: Research & Development (R&D)

Hiring Manager: Director, Product Release

Travel: None

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, 401(K), life insurance, parental leave, and mental health resources all beginning on first day of employment. See Benefits section below for more details.

COMPANY SUMMARY:

Here at Aprimo, our mission is to empower the marketing organizations of today to build the brands of tomorrow. Aprimo is a pioneer of the marketing resource and digital asset management space, and we deliver an innovative, industry-leading SaaS solution that changes the way companies like AT&T, National Park Foundation, Laborie, and Bank of America work, create, collaborate, and learn in order to deliver exceptional brand experiences at scale.

Aprimo helps enterprises unleash the power of their content by providing a marketing automation software and digital asset management software that manages the behind-the-scenes activities involved in marketing. Our product allows companies to manage content planning, creation and distribution all in one place, store content and media in a shared repository, and receive in-depth insights into how content performs.

Founded in 1998, Aprimo has five offices internationally, including Chicago headquarters, and offers a flexible work-from-home/remote-work policy.

Named a Leader in Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Marketing Resource Management by Forrester and winner of the 2021 Tech Cares Award for our work with Aprimo HELPS, we build on the power of our people to make an impact both in our industry and in our communities.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a DevOps Engineer in Aprimo R&D (Research & Development), you will help us to expand our growing R&D DevOps team. Our .NET/C multi-tenant SaaS software platform is fully hosted in the Microsoft Azure public cloud.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
•  Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Design, implement, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release pipelines, including configuration, automation, and monitoring, to facilitate fast and reliable software releases.
•  Deployments: Executing deployments and troubleshooting/resolving their issues, ensuring smooth and successful rollouts.
•  Project Management: working with Devops and Feature Teams and stakeholders to plan, schedule, and communicate releases.
•  Scripting and Automation: Write scripts and automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve efficiency.
•  Collaboration: Work closely with development, to understand underlying requirements and implement infrastructure to support it.
•  Documentation: Create and maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for infrastructure, release procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting steps to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration within the team.
•  Containerization and Orchestration: Utilize Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes to containerize applications and scale them efficiently.
•  Cloud Management: Manage cloud resources on the Azure platform optimizing cost, security, and performance.
•  Monitoring and Logging: Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to ensure the availability, performance, and security of systems and applications.
•  Security and Compliance: Collaborate with the security team to implement best practices for security, compliance, and vulnerability management.
•  Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.
•  Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth. Lead Release Committee Meetings with peers to review state of releases.
•  Additional responsibilities and duties as required. CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS & WHY YOU'RE A GREAT FIT FOR THE ROLE:
•  The Essentials
•  A minimum of 3 years of major cloud service provider operations experience is required (Azure ideally preferred)
•  Strong proficiency in automating release pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI/CD is required
•  Proven experience with YAML is required
•  Proven experience with PowerShell scripting language is required
•  Prior professional work experience in a SaaS environment is required
•  Additional Successful Qualities
•  Experience designing, improving, and operating CI/CD release pipelines
•  Azure DevOps (VSTS/TFS) - Work Items such as: Yaml Build; Release Manager (GUI); Wiki; Source Control and Git
•  Experience with containers and container orchestrations systems is required, such as: Docker; Kubernetes (AKS), Packer and Helm
•  Templating and Configuration Languages such as: Azure Resource Manager (ARM/Bicep); Terraform, Helm; JSON.
•  Windows server administration
•  Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory (AAD), Azure Active Directory Services (AADS)
•  Experience maintaining, scaling, operating Elasticsearch
•  Azure SQL knowledge
•  Experience with NGINX APRIMO CULTURE & WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE:
•  Aprimo offers a forward-thinking, progressive and employee-first culture that is based in both collaboration and flexibility with team members who are friendly, intelligent and enthusiastic people that are committed to the product and mission here at Aprimo.
•  With 5 offices worldwide and teams spread throughout the US, EMEA and Philippines, our multicultural teams work cross-departmentally and across continents and cultures towards a shared goal.
•  We offer a diverse environment that promotes DEI efforts, values multiple perspectives and fresh thinking and which includes Aprimo HELPS, an employee resource group (ERG) that is dedicated to giving back to our local communities
•  Through its relaxed environment, Aprimo embodies a more casual "Silicon Valley" atmosphere.
•  We have a casual dress code that allows employees to express themselves as individuals and which fosters a creative and free-thinking approach to problem solving and business solutions. And it also allows us to wear hoodies and shorts during internal meetings.
•  Unlimited PTO, flexible work schedules and all positions allowing for either entirely remote or hybrid working arrangements create a deeply rewarding work-life balance.
•  Our unlimited PTO encourages employees to take time off to un-plug, rest, and recharge.
•  With flexible work schedules, employees can attend to personal matters, such as stepping away to pick up their children from school or to get a much-needed haircut.
•  In a recent internal survey, 89% of staff cited work-life balance as being one of the most rewarding aspects of working at Aprimo.
•  Part of the key to our success is that team members are not only successful at collaboration and open communication, but that they are also given a great deal of autonomy and freedom in their own individual roles.
•  Our culture is not a micro-managing environment - rather, employees are encouraged to be self-starters, to voice new ideas, and to exercise ownership in their individual roles.
•  As such, individual team members can leave a lasting impact and footprint within the organization - in fact, our average employee tenure is 7.7 years.
•  Aprimo employs a "choose your own adventure" approach to career advancement.
•  Staff members are not siloed into roles and for many of our teams there is no set ladder that one needs to climb to achieve growth and promotion.
•  Rather, we emphasize an organic approach to career development in which employees can and do frequently transition into newly created roles within their own teams or transition into other departments based on their interests in exploring new skills and responsibilities.
•  For additional learning and development, we recently rolled out Udemy, which is an online learning platform that employees have access to and which features over 200,000 courses on a wide variety of business topics.
•  Ranked in AI Metadata & Search by Forrester, Aprimo sits on the cutting-edge of technology and is paving new paths forward by incorporating AI (artificial intelligence) into our product offerings.
•  We offer generative AI in a secure environment built for brand safety and governance. Our AI-powered content operations platform, with industry leading digital asset management (DAM) software at its core, helps to optimize the creative process and improve the user experience with better search, recommendations, categorization and summarization.
•  Our AI empowers marketing teams to automate tasks, analyze data, and personalize content, ensuring scalability without sacrificing productivity.
•  AI automatically identifies asset characteristics and transforms them into words a human would search for. Translation, image alterations, personalization, and more are all streamlined by AI.
•  With our platform, marketers can efficiently produce a larger volume of content, engage customers on a personalized level, curate relevant materials, and make data-driven decisions to drive their content strategies forward.
•  Our AI offers up to 72% increase in discoverability and productivity . click apply for full job details