DevOps Engineer, Cloud Operations and Infrastructure

AVEVA•Scottsdale, AZ

5d•$90,100 - $194,700•Hybrid

About The Position

AVEVA is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join its Infrastructure and Delivery team. The role supports the development of flexible hybrid infrastructure for on-premise and cloud-based products and AVEVA cloud services. The team supports building, releasing, and operating applications and services using platforms such as Service Fabric, Docker, and Kubernetes. The engineer will work across development, program management, and architecture teams to improve developer platforms, address availability, performance, and stability issues, and contribute to system design, development, and delivery. The position supports automated lifecycles for production, staging/QA, and development environments across on-premise and cloud settings; maintains CI/CD build and release processes; and develops operational procedures and automation tools to improve reliability and reduce manual support. The position is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. AVEVA describes its working model as hybrid, generally requiring employees to be onsite 50% of working hours, but says the arrangement for this position will be confirmed during hiring. Compensation is listed at $90,100–$194,700, with final compensation depending on location, experience, skills, and education or training.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2–5 years of experience in DevOps or an equivalent operations environment.
Software development proficiency consistent with a Software Developer, systems and operations support proficiency consistent with a Systems Engineer, or a combination of both.
Ability to explain complex technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Strong interest in driving automation and writing tools and applications that streamline operational support; experience building solutions to improve developer productivity.
Sound judgment and ability to recognize when to escalate.
Problem-solving ability, including coordinating support from third-party vendors when needed.
Experience with Microsoft technology platforms and/or .NET programming.
Scripting skills, particularly PowerShell, including writing functional and controller scripts for internal and external consumption.
Azure DevOps administrative experience and ability to support and teach platform capabilities that improve developer effectiveness.
Hands-on experience with software version control systems, including GIT and VSTC.
Experience in some of the listed areas, including Azure/AWS and automated environment deployment and management using Azure Resource Manager or Cloud Formation templates; automated deployment and configuration of Service Fabric, SQL Server, Azure Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Automation accounts, and other Microsoft technologies; data center virtualization; container building; orchestration; and security compliance and access control.

Nice To Haves

Experience authoring, documenting, and troubleshooting declarative scripting, particularly PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) or similar technologies.
Experience writing script testing and validation using frameworks such as Pester.
Experience with data center virtualization, particularly Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
Hands-on experience building containers and working with orchestration technologies, particularly Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
Experience with security compliance and managing security and access control in AWS IAM, Azure AD, Windows Active Directory, and other identity infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Work cross-functionally with developer, program manager, and architecture teams to improve developer platforms supporting AVEVA programs and projects.
Build solutions to problems affecting availability, performance, and stability across systems, services, and products.
Perform technical and administrative duties related to system design, development, and delivery.
Develop, improve, and document operational practices and procedures to promote a DevOps mindset.
Support the automated lifecycle of production, staging/QA, and development environments in on-premise and cloud environments.
Provide and maintain infrastructure for multiple development and test environments, ensuring they are consistently configured and available for scheduled releases.
Maintain and support build and release CI/CD.
Trace build problems, release issues, and environmental issues.
Integrate new technology capabilities into existing solutions to improve productivity.
Author and maintain scripting tools for managing cloud applications and data pipelines.
Write scripts, deployment frameworks, tracers, monitors, and self-healing or auto-remediation tools to mitigate downtime and manual support activities.