Sr. DevOps Engineer - St. Louis, MO

Posting Address

Aclara Offices in the following US cities:

• St. Louis MO
• Solon OH
• Reston VA

Position Overview

The Sr. DevOps Engineer will provide technical leadership to a small team charged with supporting a large, multinational software development effort.  The successful candidate should be considered an expert in the areas of environment provisioning, packaging, deployment, and monitoring services for both on-premises and cloud-based software solutions.  In addition, the incumbent will be called upon to lead troubleshooting efforts to resolve deployment issues that may arise in the field.  Excellent communications skills are also a must, as this role will require frequent interaction with multiple functional departments located in India, the United States, and Spain.

NOTE: This is a full-time direct hire position (no C2C) that requires location in either St. Louis, MO or Solon, OH. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Champion best practices and hold the team to a high standard
• Stay abreast of the latest technology and industry trends, identifying candidates that can benefit Aclara.
• Create and maintain deployment pipelines for multiple product development teams.
• Help design, implement, and maintain continuous integration solutions.
• Create and manage Azure based VMs for development, test, UAT, and Production environments
• Monitor Azure utilization, identify trends, and recommend cost saving opportunities
• Works with Application teams to deliver leading platforms with tight deadlines.
• Manages tasks across multiple simultaneous projects with aggressive timelines.
• Provide full application development support across all environments
• Act as a liaison between application development and infrastructure/support teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, both internal and in the field
• Deliver streamlined deployment solutions for on-premise product installations.

Education, Skills and Experience

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in a DevOps Engineer role as well as application infrastructure related activities.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in any one of these technologies: Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Ruby, Python or Shell scripting.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Azure, AWS or similar IAAS \ SAAS provider.
• Experience with PowerShell, Load balancing, Firewall and DNS.
• Working knowledge of security best practices.
• Working knowledge of Source Control best practices.
• Prior experience with tools such as VSTS, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Internet protocols including HTTP, SSL, TCP, IP.
• Knowledge of LAN WAN Network, VPN and IPSEC.

Preferred:

• Prior experience in using cloud APIs to automate provisioning, deployment, improving system performance and stability.
• Knowledge of Cloud APIs and Cloud technologies with some .NET & C# programming experience.
• Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools.
• Use of Cloud APIs to automate provisioning and deployments.

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