Senior Application Engineer DevOps IPS Technology Services Auburn Hills, MI

[Kate]

Job Title: Senior Application Engineer DevOps
Location: Onsite in Auburn Hills, MI by 10/15/2021, remote until then
Long Term contract

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Preference will be given to those who are local per this manager

Candidates MUST be willing to relocate by 10/15/21

The Continuous Delivery and Automated Testing team is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to help with build and infrastructure automation in the cloud. The successful candidate should have a strong background in one or more tools used for Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet). Terraform and Ansible are preferred. Additionally, experience in a CI/CD pipeline is helpful (We use Git, BitBucket, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven). Experience in controlled and secure deployment pipelines is preferred.

DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

• Will work within the Integration & Delivery organization of Infrastructure Engineering
• Build out a wide array of project-specific and reusable components as infrastructure is created in both AWS and Azure.
• Drive the adoption of automation from installing middleware On-Prem to building out entire stacks in AWS and Azure.
• Work across multiple projects in flight and with changing priorities as part of a relatively small, focused team.
• Will have strong experience using Git, including an excellent understanding of branching, merging, and the Pull Request process (We use BitBucket).
• Additionally, will be very experienced in at least half of the following: Ansible (preferred), Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Jira, AWS CLI, Azure CLI, Linux, and Windows.

Notes on team/role- The team is involved in various activities. They are trying to increase the adoption rate for skills and practices. The team has these skills, but they don't have enough people to do the work. CDTA is providing a pathway to empower other groups. We are currently driving towards empowering teams to adopt automation from infrastructure to testing. We are completing a large-scale cloud migration and also moving some applications to a multi-datacenter configuration.

Responsibilities:

• Build reusable components and standards.
• Provide thought leadership to grow community within the organization
• Follow and evangelize the company in DevOps
• Teach, explain, mentor (help people learn)
• Write clean, quality code
• Review code of peers
• Mob programming (group code review)

Requirements:
Strong in a couple key/similar technologies:

• Strong GIT (source control)
• Jenkins
• Ansible (CHEF, Puppet)
• AZW/Azure (several years)

Soft Skills:

• Ability to shift quickly
• Ability to mentor and provide training
• Communications skills necessary to work with multiple teams