Sr. DevOps Engineer

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Position Details Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer

Department: Information Technology

Reports To: Sr. Manager, IT Delivery COE

Job Summary

The Sr. DevOps Engineer will be part of the Delivery COE team, responsible for Carhartt’s enterprise DevOps and CI/CD (end-to-end process and operations) for development, test and production environments. This individual must have a software architecture mindset, and a strong ability to integrate cloud principles with application deployment processes. Good development, database, technical operations, monitoring, and ability to communicate and work with the cross functional teams are critical for success.

Associate Responsibilities

• Define a comprehensive enterprise DevOps, CI/CD process for Carhartt’s software delivery
• Automate, maintain and enhance Clients build and deployment processes for Dev, QA, Staging and Production environments
• Manage the end-to-end release and deployment processes for Clients public-facing websites and enterprise applications
• Embed Clients security policies and practices into the DevOps pipeline, facilitating continuous security testing, and coordinating with the Cybersecurity team in implementing robust security measures across the development lifecycle
• Integrate automated testing frameworks and deployment tools to maintain quality assurance throughout the pipeline
• Manage release cycles, ensuring versioning and documentation of software releases for traceability
• Document build and deployments issues; work with the devs, architects and SAP to troubleshoot and resolve the issues
• Drive DevOps culture across the enterprise. Communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline workflows and drive continuous improvement in DevOps and CI/CD practices
• Maintain and publish key DevOps metrics to Clients leadership on a monthly/quarterly basis
• Collaborate with Clients devs to help provision scalable and reliable application software running in a cloud environment

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology discipline or equivalent work experience

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 7-9 years of work experience in a related field including the following:
• 4 years of hands-on DevOps and CI/CD experience with eComm/Retail/Web applications
• 2-3 years of hands-on experience with build and deployment process for SAP or similar enterprise applications
• DevOps certification (e.g, MS Certified DevOps Engineer or similar) preferred
• Experience with blue-green deployments preferred
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, GitHub, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Postman, SAP Build and Deployment process, API, SQL, DB, root cause analysis and troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience with Java and Angular. Proficiency with code review process, development best practices, cloud deployment process and services (preferably Azure)
• Hands-on experience with version management tools and process to manage and track code changes
• Knowledge of Selenium, ANSIBLE, Dynatrace, SAP Hybris/Commerce Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Sonarqube, Infrastructure as code (IaC) and GitHub advanced security
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively tailor communication of technically complex issues to various audiences
• Ability to be assertive and take control in stressful situations
• Strong organizational skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize workload and attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to carry out project and/or assigned work duties
• Open to feedback
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on listening and questioning skills
• Strong documentation skills
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experience supporting MS Office products, preferably MS Office 365 products and Windows 10 is also required
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Familiarity with basic ITSM principles

Physical Requirements And Working Conditions

• Normal office environment. Extended periods of time sitting, standing, typing on a computer is required.
• Available outside of normal business hours for lower environments and production build and deployments.
• Willing to work weekends, if necessary.
• On-call as needed (24hours/7 days).
• This position has a Remote location: Associate will have no regular requirement to be on-site. Travel on-site is limited to special events.