DevOps Engineer

CREDIT UNION’S PURPOSE:  Simple Banking.  For People, Not Profit.

CREDIT UNION’S CORE VALUES:  Integrity, Service Excellence, Growth & Development, High Performance, Mutual Respect, Community, and Fun

Workplace Excellence.  Through our associates' opinions and voices, Orange County's Credit Union is a proud recipient of the Peter Barron Stark Best of the Best Award for highest associate satisfaction in the workplace! As a leading financial service provider with over 80 years of experience serving 123,000+ members, Orange County's Credit Union is currently $2+ billion in assets & growing.

Generous benefits including:

• Anthem Vivity HMO & Delta Care USA Dental - Orange County's Credit Union (OCCU) covers 100% of the associates' monthly premium
• Life insurance at no cost to employee.
• 401(k) – OCCU automatically contributes 3% of the employee’s earnings PLUS matches up to 5% of the employee’s contribution (dollar for dollar)
• Vacation hours – 13 days per year and rolls over year to year, and increases with tenure 
• Sick hours – 7 days per year and rolls over year to year
• Paid Holidays – 11 days per year plus 3 partial days
• Annual performance merit increases 
• Professional and personal development programs, including educational grants up to $2k per year, and step progression opportunities    
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Professional, friendly work environment focused on achieving goals, recognizing successes, and excelling at member service.

POSITION SUMMARY: 

Leveraging his/her strong DevOps experience and cloud computing knowledge and expertise, the DevOps Engineer will evolve our DevOps practices and support the execution of cloud automation strategy to further advance the organization’s strategic goals.  In collaboration with Business and IT partners, he/she will support efforts in optimizing and advancing the organization’s software and data engineering capability by leveraging current cloud-based DevOps tools and best practices in delivering secure, scalable, high availability and resilient enterprise solutions.

Essential Functions:     

• Participate in cross-functional agile delivery team and promote DevOps practices in support of product delivery, enterprise initiatives and strategic roadmap.
• Evolve our DevOps practices and support the execution of cloud automation strategy for enterprise solutions and application components to streamline our business processes.
• Design, implement and maintain infrastructure as code, reusable components and operational processes supporting automated CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient software delivery cycle on public cloud infrastructures (Azure preferred) using modern tools and industry best practices to deliver secure, scalable, high availability and resilient enterprise solutions.
• Leverage modern tools/utilities to continuously improve productivity, service quality/availability and security through optimal delivery orchestration, proactive monitoring, self-healing automation, and security best practices.
• Lead/support incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem resolution for infrastructure and application issues in a timely manner (including after hours and weekend as needed).
• Participate in systems design and infrastructure reviews, develop and maintain architecture/technical documentation for enterprise solutions/cloud services, and create run books to ensure successful operationalization of these solutions/services.
• Stay current with the latest trends and advancements in DevOps practices and related cloud technologies, and make appropriate recommendations that align with IT and Business strategy for the enterprise.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree from an accredited college/university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of Information Technology/software engineering experience in within a large enterprise with complex business and IT environment.
• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps/SRE engineer with a proven track record of successfully delivery and hands-on experience in designing, implementing and optimizing secure, highly scalable and reliable enterprise solutions using infrastructure as code, reusable components and automated CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient software delivery cycle on public cloud infrastructures (Azure preferred).
• Experience working in an agile delivery environment using tools such as Azure DevOps/Jira with extensive knowledge/expertise in software development, DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and best practices.
• Strong knowledge of modern programming/scripting languages (e.g., .NET, C#, JavaScript, Python, Bash, Powershell).
• Hands-on experience using modern tools for software configuration management/code repository (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitLab), CI/CD (e.g., Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Jenkins Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform), test automation (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright), code quality/security/static analysis (e.g., Azure DevOps Advanced Security, SONARQube), and monitoring and logging tools (e.g., AWS/Azure monitoring and observability services, Elasticsearch).
• Strong working knowledge of Linux/Windows operating systems (performance tuning, file systems and I/O), and container-based technologies and orchestration systems (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Fluent and current on cloud operating standards and best practices, emerging technologies and industry/market trends that can be applied to solution design and implementation.
• Azure Cloud Certification (Administrator/Security/DevOps/Networking/Architect) preferred.
• Self-motivated professional team player with excellent problem-solving ability (analyze data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations); a creative mindset; and superb interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills (including the ability to communicate at various levels within an organization and to explain complex or technical matters in a manner suitable for a non-technical audience).
• Prior experience in the financial services industry (e.g., banking, asset management, insurance, mortgage, consumer & business lending) and enterprise business/financial applications (e.g., ERP, CRM, banking, loan origination/servicing) preferred.

The targeted hourly range is $55.00 per hour to $63.00 per hour. Final offer will be determined based on experience, education, training/certifications and specialized skills.

We perform thorough background and credit checks. EOE