Principal DevOps Engineer

Principal DevOps Engineer
Austin , TX
Contract

Responsibilities:
• Drive engineering solutions aligned with our mission to make experience a key competitive advantage in the market
• Drives operational excellence for the connected services that delivers a24x7x365 operation. Drives improvements & efficiencies in operational practices, tools & processes
• Collect technical requirements from stakeholders across the company and help build a complete CI/CD strategy and objectives.
• Provide product and technical leadership, set goals that produce value for the business, and uphold high technical standards for your team.
• You will work with the engineering lead to define, communicate, enable, and institutionalize the best DevOps practices for product engineering teams through an enterprise-wide engineering system.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to construct a Blueprint that articulates a 3-year business and technology aligned target-state and roadmap for the products
• Develop standards and practices for deployments and create re-useable interfaces for consumers.
• Following market trends and DevOps movements and apply models of continuous improvement to deployment and tooling
• Understand the user needs, prioritize by making data-driven decisions
• Immerse yourself in the company's business vision and strategy and dive into a mission-critical product area to develop a deep understanding of the business and technology domain, including internal and external actors as well as the collection of end-to-end dependencies.
• Drive innovation and automation to simplify challenges and enhance developer productivity & experiences across the enterprise.
• Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business goals.
• Work closely with engineers, Tech leads, Architecture, Security, Platform Eng, Quality Engineering, Cloud, Change & Release Management teams etc.., to architect and deliver the best technical designs and work closely with cross-functional partners and develop prioritized roadmap



Requirements:
• 12 years of professional SDLC experience in a diverse set of technology disciplines and minimum 5 yrs. of hands-on experience designing and implementing Enterprise CICD solutions. Preferred with Software developer experience in the past.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience automating cloud-based applications in AWS.
• Minimum 2yrs of experience in Orchestration platform (EKS, OpenShift)
• Must have worked across breadth and depth of DevOps cycle - Orchestration and Configuration Management, CICD, Monitoring, Security
• Handson experience managing enterprise DevOps platforms like GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, SonarQube, Octopus Deploy, AWS resources, Testing & Security products etc.,
. ServiceNow CR automation



Core Competencies:
• Knowledge of basic .Net, Angular & Python Development & Deployment constructs
• Ability to learn and quickly absorb new material, Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Strong organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads
• Ability to work well independently and maintain focus in a highly dynamic work environment.
• Have a deep understanding of API design, the difference between platform design and application design, and the tooling to create modern APIs.
• Experience managing Dynamic Global configuration for App and environment variables
• Experience on many of the DevOps automation capabilities and practices, such as branching strategy, CICD, IaC, everything-as-code, Kubernetes, GitOps, B/G and Canary deployment, etc.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams