• Automates and optimizes deployment of applications and infrastructure both on-prem and in the cloud by interacting with management, product owners, developers, and engineers to find pain points in their day-to-day lives and determine what portions of their process can be automated or streamlined.
• Supports and maintains on-prem and cloud environments and/or containers by helping to design, deploy, and securely maintain virtual environments that will ensure developers have an environment to help deploy their application stacks in using modern practices.
• Implements and maintains automation by writing, testing, deploying, and maintaining the appropriate tools.
• Creates extensible and modular software packages and templates which can be re-used across our organization.
• Solves the general problem rather than today’s case.
• Writes and maintains documentation for the tools and services we build.
• Acts as an example and advocate for best practices; guards the team against amassing technical debt. Meets new problems with enthusiasm and new learners with patience and generosity.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Primary Results Accountable for Achieving:
• Reduction in time spent performing manual and tedious activities.
• Increased stability and standardization of environments.
• Reliability and scalability of cloud resources.
• Ensure efficiency of resources by quickly spinning up and tearing down environments to test and QA their applications. 2 | Page
• Reduced human error and downtime of manual processes.
• Ensure timelines are accurately communicated to management as well as meeting the agreed upon deadlines.
• Ensure the work that has been produced is documented and communicated properly to the organization.
Job Requirements:
Education & Certifications:
Education or job knowledge equivalent to college or university undergraduate education
Experience:
The minimum amount of relevant work experience required to successfully perform the job is at least five (5) years.
Required Skills:
• Mathematical skills
• Communication skills - written and oral with the ability to address the target audience
• Reasoning skills
• Computer Programming and Scripting skills (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.)
• Leadership skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Collaboration skills
• Systems Networking skills
Relationship Building: This position requires regular contact both inside and/or outside the company.
Decision Making: The position requires frequent decision-making and the ability to plan and perform unusual or difficult work with general operation methods/procedures.
Supervision Received: General Supervision. Assignments are both task-oriented and objective-oriented. May be required to develop and test new procedures and solve unprecedented problems. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgement and overall adequacy and accuracy.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Travel: Minimal travel required (up to 20%). 3 | Page Physical Demands: The employee must be physically able to perform all essential job duties, with or without reasonable accommodation and shall be physically able to perform the tasks and/or functions listed above to the extent job-related and consistent with business necessity.