What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Director, DevOps Engineering position at Western Union?
Global Director, DevOps Engineering – Denver, Colorado (Hybrid)
Are you ready to use your DevOps skills and background for one of the world’s largest FinTech organizations? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive? Then it’s time to join Western Union as a Global Director, DevOps Engineering!
Western Union powers your pursuit.
The Global Director of DevOps Engineering will oversee the architecture, development, and implementation of scalable DevOps and Infrastructure solutions across the organization. In this critical role, you will be responsible for leading and evolving the development engineering SDLC and managing the global DevOps team, implementing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automation. This position requires a seasoned leader with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, DevOps methodologies, DevEx horizon, the ability to create and manage a forward-looking DevOps culture, roadmap, and experience in managing complex technical projects.
Responsibilities
- Strong experience in Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab SonarQube, Spinnaker, Ansible AWX, Python and Groovy Scripting.
- Implementing various testing, development, automation tools, and IT infrastructures.
- Monitoring the development processes during the whole lifecycle to ensure their adherence and creating or updating new processes and minimize any waste.
- Promoting and building automated processes wherever feasible.
- Defining and establishing test, development, release, update, and support processes for the organization’s DevOps operations.
- Selecting and deploying the appropriate CI / CD tools and performing any configuration management.
- Experience in Groovy scripting, writing complex shared libraries which supports multiple build tools.
- Experience in Gitlab CI is a must and write a template which supports all types of build.
- Experience in Spinnaker and how to use the spinnaker API’s which will help in modernizing our deployment pipelines.
- Kubernetes cluster management, autoscaling, auto-healing.
- Enhancing and optimization of existing Gitlab CI framework.
- Collaborate with the application development teams to troubleshoot Pipeline- Build, Testing and deployment phases.
- Ensure availability, reliability, and maintain overall performance of DevOps tools.
- Experience in agile development discipline and the ability to learn fast and supply high quality solutions.
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Preferred Qualifications
Salary
The annual base salary range is $175,000 - $200,000 USD per year. Total on target compensation includes a base salary and short-term (20% of base) and long-term (20% of base) incentives that align with individual and company performance. Actual salaries will vary based on candidates’ qualifications, skills, and competencies.
Benefits
You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few
Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.
Your United States – Specific Benefits Include
Salary : $175,000 - $200,000
