Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer
About The Position
Williams International is seeking a Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer to improve the efficiency and maintainability of secure software development. The role researches software technologies, presents potential solutions to stakeholders, and works with IT infrastructure and Cybersecurity to implement and maintain those solutions. The engineer gathers feedback from developers and provides guidance to support continuous improvement of software development and maintainability. This position is 100% on-site, and U.S. citizenship is required. The role supports DevOps practices, software delivery workflows, shared pipelines and tooling, CI/CD configuration and optimization, automation across build, test, and deployment, operational readiness, and adoption of secure SDLC practices. The engineer works collaboratively with development teams and Security, uses shared code and disciplined source control and documentation practices, and contributes to coding and deployment standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science and 6+ years of related experience.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
- Strong math and statistics skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Extensive knowledge and experience establishing DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, for a team.
- Extensive experience selecting, implementing, and using software development tools, methodologies, and best practices, such as Git and Jira, personally and for a group.
- Experience with issue tracking, source code repositories, security practices and tools (SCA, SAST, DAST, secrets management, authentication and authorization), and observability (logs, metrics, traces, visualization).
- Extensive knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages, such as C#, C++, Python, SQL, JavaScript, PHP, or Java.
- Working knowledge of relational database systems, including MS SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, and proficiency in designing and maintaining tables, views, stored procedures, and related database objects.
- Familiarity with microservices or WCF service solutions.
- Working knowledge of developing web services with REST APIs.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Must be able to obtain a U.S. Government Security Clearance if needed; selected candidates may be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Nice To Haves
- Visual Studio experience with ASP.NET, Razor Pages, MVC, MVC templating, C#, CSS, and UI design and coding.
- Working knowledge of popular web-development frameworks such as React or Angular.
- Advanced analytics development and support experience.
Responsibilities
- Coach teams on DevOps best practices.
- Improve software delivery workflows.
- Assist Platform Engineering with onboarding teams to shared pipelines and tooling.
- Configure and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
- Guide automation across build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Assist development teams with operational readiness.
- Collaborate with Security to ensure secure SDLC practices are adopted.
- Work in a team environment with shared code and disciplined use of source code control and process documentation.
- Adhere to and contribute to improving coding and deployment standards.
- Respond to developer feedback and develop solutions to meet developers’ needs.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
