Senior DevOps Engineer

Exciting Opportunity to Join Our Legacy of Environmental Leadership!

Location: Indianapolis, IN. with over 2,000 employees nationwide

About Us: At Heritage Environmental Services, we are more than just a company; we are pioneers in industrial waste management, committed to creating a cleaner, safer world. Since our inception during the environmental movement of the 1970s, we've been at the forefront of solving complex environmental challenges. With a dedicated team spread across the United States, we provide innovative and compliant solutions to thousands of clients in diverse industries.

Why Heritage?

• Impactful Work: Be part of a team that makes a real difference. Our comprehensive services range from hazardous waste management and emergency response to onsite support and technical solutions, allow us to solve our customers' waste challenges. We are part of the solution. We don't generate any waste ourselves.
• Growth Opportunities: At Heritage, your contribution is valued beyond your job title. We believe in the power of continuous learning and growth, encouraging every employee to expand their skills and take on new challenges.
• Safety First: Your health and safety are our top priorities. We foster a culture where every employee is empowered to act safely and ensure the well-being of their colleagues. Our mantra is, safe and compliant, or not at all.
• Collaborative Environment: Together we can achieve much more. Join a supportive and dynamic team where your ideas and efforts are recognized and rewarded.

Our Commitment: We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and innovative workplace where every employee can thrive. As part of our team, you will have the freedom to contribute your expertise wherever needed, ensuring the success of our mission to protect the environment.

Our Ambition: Leading the Way in Hazardous Waste Management Our goal is to become the fastest-growing and most profitable hazardous waste platform, powered by industry-leading, end-to-end capabilities. We aim to be the top choice for our customers, driven by a high-performing team that thrives on solving challenges, continuous learning, and growth.

Exciting News: Heritage Environmental Services is now backed by the EQT Infrastructure VI fund, enhancing our capabilities, and expanding our reach. EQT is a dynamic global investment powerhouse managing EUR 232 billion in assets (EUR 128 billion fee-generating). With a focus on Private Capital and Real Assets, EQT owns and supports leading companies across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, fostering sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership. This exciting ownership positions us for even greater impact and growth in the future.

Senior DevOps Engineer

As the Senior DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective operation of enterprise business applications. This role will bridge communications between business users and information technologists, implement new capabilities and improve existing processes to support enterprise IT applications.

This position will be located at our Indianapolis Corporate office, working closely with regional offices and field locations and collaborating with application stakeholders, project managers and additional IT teams and support personnel. Occasional travel and an on-call rotation is a requirement of this position.

Essential Functions & Requirements:

• Prioritizes health and safety by adhering to policies, processes, and maintaining safe practices at all times
• Creates and maintains CI/CD process to support Company development teams
• Designs an infrastructure and configuration management strategy including, but not limited to, Infrastructure as Code, Container Environment, and Infrastructure compliance and security
• Develops, implements and maintains Provisioning and Configuration Management with Ansible (predominantly), Azure, and VMWare environments
• Designs and optimizes feedback mechanisms for development teams; establishes monitoring tools, metrics, and notifications allowing for rapid response to system issues
• Identifies, creates, and implements fixes for potential security and performance issues for infrastructure and applications
• Sets up and configures load balancers, firewalls, DNS, SSL and network connectivity to support software systems
• Solicits, interprets, and documents business requirements by interfacing directly with business users and key stakeholders
• Serves as a liaison between IT and business users to resolve differences between key stakeholders and external application vendors
• Maintains ownership of system issues, support requests, projects and improvement tasks, with some supervision
• Provides Tier 3 support for issues that are unresolved by in-house Tier 1 and Tier 2 technicians
• Coordinates and executes system upgrades including validation, benchmarking, UAC testing and debugging
• Coordinates new feature rollout training with administrators and power users
• Evaluates new and emerging technologies specific to Company industry; makes recommendations as applicable
• Takes on additional duties as assigned to support the team and organization

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology (required)

Experience:

• 5 years of experience in Linux Operating Systems or application administration (required)
• Required Technical Skills:
  • Reading and writing basic scripts for automation (e.g. YAML, Bash, PowerShell)
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux and Ansible experience
  • Supporting a wide range of applications running on UNIX/Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Working with leading cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Kubespray, CI/CD tools such as Git, TeamCity or Jira
  • Understanding of DNS, CDN, SSL and networking concepts
  • Building and deploying containerized software in both cloud and on-premises environments
  • Hands-on experience with automation and configuration tools such as Ansible, Chef or Terraform
  • Familiarity with managing database instances
  • Familiarity with testing and code quality tools
  • Operational understanding to identify bottlenecks, profiling and load testing

Competencies:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate with both internal and external stakeholders
• Willingness and ability to quickly understand new software products and technologies
• Strong listening and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and use reasoning to resolve issues
• Ability to demonstrate the confidence needed to seek innovative solutions that drive business opportunity and value
• Ability to work as a self-directed team player; remains flexible and treats each project/initiative as an independent and unique opportunity
• Displays strong character and ethics; handles sensitive and confidential information appropriately
• Strong ability to accurately estimate individual task durations, and designs and meet deadlines
• Regular and predictable attendance to perform the essential functions and requirements of this role

Benefits, Compensation, & Workforce Diversity: Heritage offers competitive pay and bonus incentives. Benefits include choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending or health savings accounts, employee and dependent life insurance, short and long-term disability, 401(k) savings plan with company match, and tuition reimbursement. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

A post-offer drug screen will be required.

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