Lead DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• The Lead DevOps engineer and their teams optimize the software development lifecycle to enhance developer productivity, accelerate delivery speed, and improve code quality.

• Primary responsibilities encompass automating delivery processes and managing the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

• Oversee the lifecycle management of Jenkins, including backups, upgrades, plugin management, and ensuring pipeline stability.

• Automate database restoration tasks, patch pipelines, backups, and processes for maintaining data integrity.

• Design and implement Guidewire build and deployment pipelines, configuration scripts, and environment management solutions.

• Manage secrets, credentials, and secure runtime configurations across various environments to reduce deployment risks.

• Automate production releases, maintenance tasks, and service orchestration to minimize downtime.

• Sustain and enhance the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) automation processes.

• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code principles utilizing tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

• Lead and support containerization and orchestration technologies.

• Improve monitoring, alerting, and reliability engineering practices.

• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams on delivery and architectural practices.

• Provide technical leadership on DevOps best practices, security standards, and updates to the Guidewire platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.

• A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, which includes:

• Deployment and configuration experience in Jenkins.

• Knowledge of network infrastructure, database systems, cloud operations, data center operations, and security protocols.

• Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Bash, PHP, Java, SQL, Groovy, or C++.

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), with a preference for experience in JAVA.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive coverage for medical, dental, vision, group life, AD&D, and dependent life insurance.

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options.

• A 401(k) retirement plan featuring employer matching contributions up to 6%, along with a pension plan.

• Performance-based incentives, continuous training and professional development opportunities, and support for certification.

• Generous paid time off, which includes vacation, sick leave, paid holidays, and personal days.

• Flexible scheduling to promote a healthy work-life balance.