DevOps Engineer

Job TitlePerforms as an individual contributor of middleware team that builds and supports exceptional customer-facing applications with challenging business use cases, existing systems, and operational problems.Experience working on various middleware application servers and containers from monolithic to modern versions.Apply middleware infrastructure automation code with utmost attention to scalability, security, and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning capacity specifications, quality, release deployments, and monitoring of production health.The candidate must also have some Shell/Perl/Python scripting language experience and be able to use this to implement changes in pipelines.Maintains technical documentation on any implementations, README files up-to-date, and status pages of the projects along with Release team handover.Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation, and other teams to define, prioritize, sequence, and scope middleware around business and functional areas.Accurately scopes effort identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation, and metrics (KPI) management.Perform impact assessment of the product (hardware, software) upgrades, patching, migration, and hotfixes.Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing projects across various environments (Regression, Performance, Production, and Post-production).Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.Familiarity with common issues that causes builds/deployments to fail such as out of memory, disk full, missing libraries or security certificates, etc.Proven track record of handling & troubleshooting various critical Production and nonproduction applications end to end & infrastructure technical issues, providing comprehensive root cause.This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned.The national base pay range below is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dentals assessment of the candidates knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.