Senior DevOps Engineer

Spectrum's Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation's fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. The diversity of experience available within Spectrum's Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience Works with developers, testers, and deployment teams to create software deployment plans Writes and updates automated scripts for installation of server software products
• Configures necessary hardware or virtual machines and operating environments as needed Works with developers and hardware teams to update infrastructure and OS for applications Performs production installations and upgrades of server software products
• Works with developers and infrastructure teams to install or upgrade third party software Monitors a system's performance, and reliability as well as the daily data processing
• Being a competent problem solver who can identify and resolve complex issues as part of a team
• Mentors less experienced engineers.
• Participates in project-related stand-up meetings.
• Reviews and provides feedback for all external facing user documentation, including on-line help
• Provides documentation support as necessary

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO SPECTRUM

Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Extensive experience packaging and delivering software to a production environment
• Well-versed in automating software deployments using tools (Puppet, Chef, Python, Ansible)
• Experience with software source control tools such as Perforce or GitHub
• Experience with Linux shell scripting environments such as bash
• Ability to write clear technical documentation for use by developers and testers
• Ability to work under limited direction and handle multiple assignments simultaneously
• Must possess demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
• Thorough understanding of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Demonstrated leader that can facilitate and build team consensus and interact with both the leadership and the implementation teams

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree or technical field or related work experience.

Required Related Work Experience and Number of Years

Dynamic scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Groovy - 5+ Deploying software such as Pexpect, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible - 3+ Linux or other Unix systems - 5

Preferred Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

* Understanding of robust software development processes and software configuration management policies
* Experience working with agile teams utilizing scrum or kanban
* Experience managing virtual machines using VMware or other VM technologies.
* Experience with Docker and deploying Docker containers
* Experience with the Atlassian suite of products such as Jira and Confluence.
* Some experience with C#/.Net programming and SQL.