DevOps Automation Engineer

Skills

Automated testing experience is critical to this role; must understand the benefits of test automation and why you're doing it Ideal candidate will know how technology* is applied to DevOps role and be comfortable in an IDE to support developers while also doing the required testing *Technology: Java Python NodeJS JUnit Cucumber Selenium FitNesse Jmeter

Description

Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production
Work closely with Architecture, Customers, Operations, and Product to specify and detail solutions and practices
Build a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the sustainability/DevOps engineering function that is responsible for platform availability, scale and performance.
• Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement
• Implement comprehensive service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including synthetic, real user, system, application performance, dashboards etc.
• Define, measure, and meet key service level objectives including availability, performance, incidents and chronic problems
• Ensure robust capacity planning models are defined for key platforms and regularly measure customer site performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical platform services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions
• Encourage and establish teams that work together without silos
• Lead teams with a focus on productivity, efficiency, respect, and cultural sensitivity