Shaw Systems is a national software development company that has an established record of solid financial performance and an excellent reputation for providing quality products.

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for building, maintaining and deploying infrastructure and applications using automation and orchestration through entire software development lifecycle.

A perfect candidate is one that likes automating tedious tasks, create safety guards from mistakes being made, prefers simplifying problems instead of overcomplicating things, being proactive instead of reactive, mindfully accepting tech-debt, and, most importantly, working as a team.

Responsibilities

• Develops and deploys infrastructure as code using automation and orchestration tools in cloud environments.
• Builds CI/CD pipelines while incorporating automated testing and vulnerability scanning for hosted and containerized applications.
• Establish, maintain, and evolve robust CI/CD pipelines with technologies like BitBucket, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible and Terraform.
• Monitors CI/CD builds while analyzing trends and making performance improvements to build times.
• Build, scale, and secure critical applications on multiple cloud-native architectures using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Manage incidents and outages within the application and handle production support in general.
• Responsible for building update and upgrade packages and installation of the packages for hosted clients and delivering the packages to the licensed clients.
• Support and maintenance of all daily builds and internal sites.
• Support of all product servers to ensure acceptable tech stacks and resources are in place.
• Work closely with our Architects, Engineers, Product Owners and Application Leads to engineer and build automated solutions.
• Work with the development team to deploy and manage tools that support SDLC automation, configuration management and release management.

Requirements

• 3 years’ experience in a DevOps or Software/Systems engineering role in a Cloud environment
• Working experience with CD/CI tools (Jenkins, etc.)
• Working experience with container services Docker and Kubernetes
• Working experience with build tools (Ant, Maven, Gradle)
• Working Experience leveraging infrastructure as code and infra automation tools such as Terraform
• Working experience with config management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Working experience with source management (GitHub, Bit Bucket, GitLab)
• Working experience with deploy artifacts such as Artifactory
• Prior experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and relational database such as SQL Server
• Experience in cross-platform scripting languages and build tools (ANT, Groovy, Powershell, Python, Angular, etc.)
• Experience with more than one cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Experience troubleshooting software upgrades and installs
• Experience supporting tech stack Windows, Java, SQL Server, JBoss or TC server, RabbitMQ
• Must work well under pressure to meet ongoing and overlapping deadlines within short time constraints
• After hours support and additional peak time support may be necessary

Preferred Experience

• Related Cloud Certifications.

• Linux/Unix experience a plus.

Education / Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in experience in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

Location

This position may work from any of the following locations: Hybrid office schedule if within 75 miles of the Houston, TX or Richmond, VA office. Remote with the ability to travel at least 5% from the following states: Texas if more than 75 miles from the office location, Virginia if more than 75 miles from the office location, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah.

** Shaw Systems employees are not authorized to work in any state not listed above our outside of the US without specific written permission from their direct manager and approval from the Information Security Office.**

Supervisory Responsibility

This position does not have supervisory responsibility.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

This is a full-time position. Days of work are Monday through Friday. The daily schedule may vary from 7 am – 4 pm, 8 am – 5 pm or 9 am – 6 pm, and occasional afterhours or weekend work may be required. Hours may vary or exceed 40 in any given week depending on the needs of the business.

Travel

Up to 10%.

EEO Statement

Shaw provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Shaw complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.