Senior DevOps Engineer

Are you ready to drive the next generation of product deployments at Spectrum? As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take the lead in coordinating national and divisional software rollouts, supporting critical systems, and serving as the first line of contact for production engineering. Join a collaborative environment where your expertise in automation, troubleshooting, and mentoring will directly shape the stability and performance of Spectrum's platforms.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Collaborate with developers, testers, hardware, and deployment teams to plan and execute software deployment, update infrastructure and OS for applications, and install or upgrade server and third-party software products
• Write and update automated scripts for installation of server software products
• Configure necessary hardware or virtual machines and operating environments
• Perform production installations and upgrades of server software products
• Monitor a system's performance and reliability as well as the daily data processing
• Be a competent problem solver who can identify and resolve complex issues as part of a team
• Mentor less experienced engineers
• Participate in project-related stand-up meetings
• Review and provide feedback for all external facing user documentation, including on-line help
• Provide documentation support as necessary

What You'll Bring to Spectrum

Required Qualifications

Education

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

Experience

• 5+ years of experience with dynamic scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Groovy
• 5+ years of Linux or other Unix systems experience
• 3+ years of experience deploying software such as Pexpect, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and containerization technologies
• Strong ability to multitask, cross-collaborate with development teams and prioritize work efficiently.

Skills

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English; must possess demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
• 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 and 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
• 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
• Understanding of robust software development processes and software configuration management policies
• Experience working with agile teams utilizing Scrum or Kanban
• Experience with AWS cloud services and containerization technologies
• Experience supporting HAProxy, InfluxDB, Grafana, ActiveMQ, Artemis
• Experience with Docker and deploying Docker containers and the Atlassian suite of products such as Jira, Confluence, FishEye, and Crucible
• Some experience with Java programming

Schedule

• Office environment
• This position is eligible to work in a hybrid work model (combination of in-office and remote days)