DevOps Engineer II

Position Summary:

SMC³, the leading provider of data and technological solutions to the LTL portion of the transportation industry, is looking for a highly motivated DevOps Engineer to join our expanding DevOps team.  In this role, you will work closely with our Agile teams to deploy, monitor and troubleshoot applications in our dev, test and production environments while continually looking for ways to automate and streamline the processes.   We strive for 100% uptime and are looking for someone who has the desire and ability to help us achieve that goal.

Essential Functions:

Note: The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar.

The following duties are required to be performed under general supervision:

• Configuration and use of various tools to monitor the health of test and production systems.
• Respond quickly and accurately to alerts from the monitoring tools and requests from other internal users.
• Configure, monitor and troubleshoot nightly builds to test systems.
• Deploy application updates to production systems.
• Deploy infrastructure updates to test and production systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in both test and production systems.
• Be able to be on-call 24×7 at least one week per month.
• Respond reliably to on-call issues as needed.
• Be an integral part of a small DevOps team.
• Work well independently to help bring solutions to problems.

Qualifications/Education/Skills

Note: Qualifications listed are guidelines. Other factors may be taken into consideration.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• 2-5 years of experience in DevOps role
• A thorough understanding of the following is required:
  • Linux
  • Kubernetes
    • Monitoring
    • Application deployment
  • Docker image creation
  • Continuous integration
  • Bash and Python scripting
  • Databases – both relational and NoSQL
  • Load balancing
• Experience with the following is preferred:
  • server/application monitoring tools
  • large-scale system deployment
  • Rancher/RKE2
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: 
  •  Jenkins/Groovy
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • Postman
  • Java/Spring Boot
  • Maven
  • Sonatype Nexus
  • Apache Tomcat
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL/MariaDB

Competencies:

• Accuracy
• Dependability
• Problem Solving
• Interpersonal Skills
• Oral Communications
• Written Communications
• Planning/Organization
• Adaptability

Work Environment & Physical Demands

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.