DevOps Engineer – Digital Applications (Agile/Scrum)

Industrial Electric Manufacturing

8h•Remote

About The Position

The DevOps Engineer – Digital Applications is responsible for building, maintaining, and continuously improving the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes supporting IEM’s digital quotation and estimation platform (Optiemize) and related software systems. This role is embedded within Agile/Scrum delivery teams and focuses on enabling reliable, secure, and scalable software delivery. The DevOps Engineer collaborates closely with Software Developers, QA, Product Owners, and IT to automate workflows, improve system observability, and ensure high availability across development, test, and production environments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
3+ years of experience in DevOps, systems engineering, or infrastructure support roles.
Experience working within Agile/Scrum environments.
Hands-on experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization, or virtualization technologies.
Experience with scripting or automation (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar).
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting SaaS or internal business-critical applications.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and configuration management.
Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or engineering-focused software systems.
Understanding of security and compliance best practices in software delivery.

Responsibilities

Support Agile/Scrum teams by enabling frequent, reliable, and repeatable deployments aligned with sprint goals.
Participate in Scrum ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Collaborate with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure infrastructure and DevOps work is properly prioritized in the backlog.
Promote DevOps best practices that support continuous delivery and shared ownership of system reliability.
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, automated testing, and continuous deployment.
Integrate automated testing (including QA automation) into pipelines to ensure early defect detection and rapid feedback.
Improve pipeline reliability, performance, and security through automation and standardization.
Support version control, branching strategies, and release workflows aligned with Agile delivery.
Provision, configure, and maintain cloud and/or on-prem infrastructure supporting Optiemize environments.
Manage development, test, staging, and production environments to ensure consistency and stability.
Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices to improve repeatability and scalability.
Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity; proactively address reliability and performance issues.
Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting to improve system observability and incident response.
Support incident triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews with a focus on continuous improvement.
Apply security best practices across pipelines, infrastructure, and deployments.
Ensure compliance with internal IT standards and security requirements.
Work closely with Software Development teams to support application architecture, deployments, and runtime performance.
Partner with QA to enable automated testing and environment stability.
Collaborate with IT and Engineering teams to align infrastructure with business and technical needs.
Communicate system status, risks, and improvements clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.