Devops Engineer

Description

Knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
Proven expertise in automation tools and processes.
Proven expertise in DevOps tool chains and processes
Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
Provide support and technical expertise related to cloud deployment, and operations
Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how cloud technology can support these efforts
Partner with key stakeholders to ensure all cloud tasks/initiatives are completed on time
Contribute to the development of cloud reference architecture and management systems

Responsibilities

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• 3 + years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, Automation, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations
• Production support 24x7
• Troubleshooting and Performance tuning
• Familiarity / experience with cloud DevOps tools, BQ, machine learning desired but not necessary.

Experience Requirements

• This is a devops team that manages marketing landscape including some products that are off the shelf products and they manage the entire environment as well as applications.
• Some scenarios more traditional dev ops engrs dev code and manage infra across board.
• In scenarios where apps off shelf (cloud hosted/staff based apps) – slightly askew need for skills compared to typical devops engineer.
• This is an addition position working into team as landscape expands.
• 1 is a SaaS role – they’re already interviewing for that one and easing off on the hard technical devops skills in favor of more requirements analysis good documentation, customer service background with ability to understand technical environment so they can work with devops engrs.
• Other role is for a product named SAS.
• SAS is one of largest or largest privately held software provider – they offer campaign management and marketing analytics products. Ulta chose to implement in google cloud platform environment which is not common for SAS so they’re working with SAS to develop infrastructure.
• Using linux servers on google cloud as well as their SAAS components as well as the administration for this takes place through windows server with some thick clients.
• Broad range of skills are required to manage product across the board.
• This group can cross train and help each other out across board
• Someone who has GCP, Linux and the unicorn would be someone who worked with SAS products.
• Ulta uses the term dev ops a little differently than what he’s seen in his career. They consider devops engineers with devops capabilities with ability to build and code and QA and maintain and support envt. They manage whole lifecycle but only after product in production.
• Development efforts are in enhancements and bug fixes.
• Infrastructure builds and development teams actually do the build – this team does not do the build.
• They’re working in the old traditional model of having things separate.
• Site reliability is a great way to look at this specific need. They will be delivering a site and product in infrastructure and then they support from there. In THIS case development team hired an admin with more of the softer marketing skills for campaign management and building campaigns so they need more of the technical skills on their side.
• NEED google cloud experience. They don’t use AWS so that’s not a requirement.
• A little bit of amazon is great gcp, linux, redhat, some of the app servers will have postgres databases but otherwise datasource will be primarily Google Big Query.
• Analytics tools would be nice to have since this is an analytics operation.
• SAS specific experience would be amazing. Linux gcp, big query. Site reliability engineer, some CICD experience.
• Use a # of tools pretty tool agnostic besides that. Jenkins, anthill are used in the environment.
• Oncall? going through discovery and preinstallation phase right now.. Manager is Bridging gap by taking on installation deliverables himself. At start weighted toward one person moving through application and onboarding to devops team which may require some shifted schedules but after the person is primary escalation point – offshore resources can be trained up for off shift hours as long as there is good documentation to cover off hours.
• Main initiative this year is move everything into more unified CICD pipeline.
• Selling point and why a candidate would want to work there - If you find skills or interest in learning – that may be a selling point – there will be a lot of work in site reliability and CICD and that will be someone with experience looking for opportunity or someone who wants to learn more about that as they go.