DevOps Engineer - Minnesota Based Candidates Only

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

This is a Minnesota based role where candidates have opportunity to work on site at our Minneapolis World Headquarters on a consistent basis.

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for building, maintaining, and automating infrastructure and tools used to automate testing, security scanning, deployment, and monitoring of NMDP software.

The individual will support multiple cross functional teams, projects/domains within the application development and infrastructure teams to build solutions that align with the organization's strategies and comply with the NMDP's architectural standards.

These solutions will support on premises and AWS based software.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Planning, Design, & Solutions support:


* Monitors the engineering department's tools and procedures and promotes their evolution alongside the business systems.


* Participates in the full lifecycle of the DevOps tool chain, including selection, implementation, maintenance, and offboarding of tools.


* Ensures the continuous availability, performance, and security of the DevOps platform and associated tools to support 24/7 enterprise operations.


* Responsible for building automation frameworks for deployment, management, and monitoring of applications' build, release, and configuration activities in constant collaboration with development teams.


* Adapts quickly to changing requirements, progresses and evolves goals and strategies, and implements emerging technologies as required.


* Delivers automated, innovative solutions to cross functional teams to enable them to deliver faster business capabilities to stakeholders.


* Advocates and promotes knowledge sharing and DevOps culture across the entire engineering department.


* Keeps up with industry best practices, trends, and standards and identify automation opportunities that improve DevOps operations and efficiency across the organization.


* Ensures all development activities adhere to the NMDP defined architecture and security standards and follow the predefined processes/methodologies.


* Proactively communicates with and coordinates activities with Business units, IT Infrastructure, Information Security and Software Engineering teams.


* Provides timely status updates of projects and assigned tasks to the leadership team, Scrum Master, and appropriate team members.


* Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: (Minimum qualifications needed for this position including education, experience, certification, knowledge, and/or physical requirements)

Knowledge of:


* Thorough and varied experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration solutions, preferably Kubernetes.

Experience with Helm chart creation, management, deployment, and troubleshooting.

Experience using Rancher and ArgoCD.


* Proven experience building and managing a CI/CD pipeline using tools such as GitLab, Bitbucket and Bamboo.

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