DevOps Lead

Job Title: DevOps Engineer (4-5 days onsite)

Location: Watsonville, CA

This role will be part of a growing team responsible for maintaining and enhancing our DevOps practices and infrastructure. The DevOps Engineer will lead the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and ensure efficient and secure software deployment processes. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the Software Development Lifecycle, including branching and versioning strategies, environment and configuration management, and familiarity with software testing frameworks. The candidate should be proficient with CI tools such as Jenkins and TeamCity, package deployment tools like Octopus Deploy, and source code management using GitHub. Expertise in configuration management tools like Terraform and Ansible is required, along with extensive experience in cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, CloudFormation; Glue, DynamoDB, Redshift are plusses), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle SaaS and PaaS offerings, governance, OCI Networking), and Azure. The candidate should have experience with monitoring tools such as New Relic and Grafana, and code quality and security tools like Snyk and SonarQube. Proficiency with JIRA for issue tracking and ServiceNow for incident and change management is essential. Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, Powershell, and Bash are required. Adaptability to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities is essential, along with a desire to teach and mentor other engineers with varying domains of expertise. The candidate must be able to travel internationally without restrictions (valid passport)

Responsibilities:

1. Design and develop build and deployment solutions for JavaScript, .NET, MuleSoft and ERP applications using enterprise-level automation tools
2. Research, design, and implement strategies for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD) and release management
3. Use automation to provision and maintain Amazon Web Services Cloud infrastructure
4. Use automation to provision and maintain Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources
5. Build pipelines to compile and deploy code to target systems
6. Build pipelines to manage configurations on target systems
7. Setup integration between DevOps tools like GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, New Relic, JIRA, and ServiceNow to enable automated processes for issues and change request deployments
8. Research, develop, and implement best practices/methodologies for infrastructure provisioning (including Infrastructure as Code), application scaling, and configuration management
9. Engineer systems and tools to support the build, integration, and verification of complex software systems spanning multiple hardware platforms, mobile platforms, and cloud-based platforms and services
10. Work with the Information Services delivery team to implement and maintain highly scalable build and release solutions, including continuous delivery, optimization, monitoring, release management, and support for all Driscoll s IS systems
11. Manage Driscoll s GitHub source code repositories for internal projects and vendor-developed systems
12. Contribute to development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery processes

Requirements:

1. Minimum of Bachelor s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
2. 5 years of experience in DevOps Engineering
3. Extensive experience with the Software Development Lifecycle, Branching and versioning strategies to enable continuous integration/deployment
4. Environment and configuration management
5. Familiarity with the software testing lifecycle and testing frameworks and processes is a plus
6. Experience in Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP deployments
7. Experience developing and maintaining build and deployment processes and scripting
8. Extensive experience working with GitHub, a cloud-based Source Code Management tool
9. Extensive experience with: CI tools (TeamCity, Jenkins), Package deployment tools (Octopus Deploy), Configuration Management tools (Terraform, Ansible
10. Extensive experience in cloud platforms such as: Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, CloudFormation; Glue, DynamoDB, Redshift are all plusses), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle Saas and PaaS offerings, governance, OCI Networking); Azure experience is a plus
11. Experience with monitoring tools (New Relic, Graphana)
12. Experience with code quality and security tools (Snyk, SonarQube)
13. Experience with JIRA for issue tracking and Service Now for incident and change management
14. Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Powershell, Bash)
15. Advanced English communication skills with all levels of organization is required (written, verbal, digital, formal presentations)