DevOps Engineer
12 Months
Westlake, Texas (Hybrid)
Hybrid: 2 alternate weeks onsite per month
Interviews: 2 rounds
 
Required skills:

• Jenkins
• CI/CD Pipelines (New build work, and maintenance)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Git/Git Hub

Nice to haves:

• AWS or Azure
• Python
• API’s knowledge
• Containerization
• Database experience (foundational knowledge)
• Java
• Security experience
• Maven

The Team & Role:

• We focus on crafting rich and compelling experiences using the best application design guidelines by way of robust tooling to provide healthcare benefits and management.
• We work in a collaborative, fast paced environment and are committed to advancing a digital strategy to the delight of our customers.
• We're looking for engineers who are hardworking, inquisitive, and responsible individuals to help deliver the best digital web experience to our customers.
• The ideal candidate is deeply entrenched in middle tier development, with a passion for using tools and frameworks to guide the development of stable, robust, and resilient apps that best serve our customer base.

The Expertise You Have:

• 3+ years of software engineering, configuration management & release engineering for large scale enterprise applications.
• Bachelor’s degree of Computer Science or other related field.
• Strong understanding of CI / CD Processes, and experience with tools like Jenkins and Jenkins Core.
• Solid knowledge of 12-factor methodology, containerization and cloud technologies.
• Solid understanding and experience of version control system management using various Git workflows.
• Experience in DevOps best practices and tools like Jenkins or Jenkins Core, Git/GitHub, SonarQube, and artifact repositories like Artifactory.
• Experience in container and cloud technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes and Azure/AWS.
• Experience in different build tools and package managers for different programing languages, e.g.: Maven, Gradle, NPM.
• Developer oriented mindset with ability to design automations to solve problems and create solutions - Proficient in scripting languages such as Java, Groovy, Shell, Python and/or similar languages.
• Ability to understand the complete development flow and make recommendations on changes or improvements to the development teams:
• Testing Stages, Coverage Reports, Quality Gates, Security Scans, Environment Promotions.
• Experience with core Azure/AWS Services and ability to build automated processes using SDK or CLI.
• Experience with Kubernetes for large scale enterprise services.
• Knowledge of Splunk and Datadog or other logging, observability, monitoring or SRE tool.

The Skills You Bring:

• Solid understanding of modern development principles such as trunk-based development, feature toggles, and branch by abstraction to support performant and collaborative engineering teams.
• Ability to review, analyze and recommend solutions and tools to improve the software development & CI/CD process.
• Develop and support the Continuous Integration process, innovating where needed for solutions that are adaptable to current issues.
• Ability to create readable and detailed documentation to explain flows, architectural diagrams or processes.
• Trace complex CI/CD scenarios, release issues and environment issues in a multi-component environment.
• Develop, maintain and enhance key parts of the release procedures and processes. Coordinate release activities with Release Management, Project Management, QA, and Development teams to ensure a smooth roll out of releases.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and shift-left DevOps best practices, to ensure alignment to agile software engineering methodologies.

The Value You Deliver:

• Collaborating with web/API development team to leverage DevOps and automation to build highly robust and scalable apps.
• Partnering with experience platform squads for engineering standards, standard methodologies, and tooling, to ensure maintainability and stability of the codebase.
• Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders to analyze and solve problems.
• Staying ahead of the curve by aligning architecture, user experience, and security with chapters and COEs.
• Supporting a cloud-first world through upskilling and augmenting squads with solid knowledge of cloud technologies.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 50.00/hr.