Development Engineer, Principal. DevOps - AeroVironment

OpenTalent; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent seeks a Development Engineer, Principal (DevOps) in Huntsville to lead automation and CI/CD pipeline initiatives across the company.

The role requires strong collaboration with software groups, senior stakeholders, and a track record of delivering release management improvements in a large organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 12+ years of work experience managing diverse DevOps operations, and tools (e.g., GitLab, GitHub), including branching, tagging, merging and release management oversight.
• 5+ years of experience working with containerization (Docker or ECS), orchestration, service discovery experience with Windows and Linux hosts.
• Experience with one or more major cloud platform providers (e.g. Azure, AWS).
• Demonstrated success with application delivery in mid-size (2000+ staff) corporations.

Responsibilities

• Administers and maintains Gitlab and Subversion.
• Architects and delivers DevOps pipeline operations supporting automated delivery of CI/CD pipelining for corporate-wide software releases.
• Creates and maintains Docker images and containers.
• Identifies and automates manual processes.
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.

Skills

GitLab

GitHub

Docker

CI/CD

Scripting

Education

Bachelors in STEM

Tools

Subversion

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Job Description

Summary

The Development Engineer, Principal. (DevOps) designs, develops, launches, and supports our corporate DevOps pipeline operations. The incumbent will facilitate automation of internal software deployment via Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) best practices, working directly with multiple software development groups across the company as our subject matter expert. This role requires frequent engagement with stakeholders and senior leadership, necessitating strong communication skills and accountability.

Position Responsibilities:

• Administers and maintains Gitlab and Subversion
• Architects and delivers DevOps pipeline operations supporting automated delivery of CI/CD pipelining for corporate-wide software releases
• Creates and maintains Docker images and containers
• Identifies and automates manual processes
• Actively participates in enhancing current build infrastructure, deployment, and DevOps processes.
• Works with tools and platforms like JIRA and Sharepoint
• Develops and maintains software installation tools, processes, and packages
• Creates and maintains DevOps Process and Policies
• Recognize and reuse common code base if necessary to support different programs and projects
• Delivers work on time according to agreed completion dates and project schedule & budget
• Operates in a continuous learning environment and provides guidance and mentoring to all stakeholders
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills & Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 12+ years of work experience managing diverse DevOps operations, and tools (e.g., GitLab, GitHub), including branching, tagging, merging and release management oversight.
• 5+ years of experience working with containerization (Docker or ECS), orchestration, service discovery experience with Windows and Linux hosts
• Experience with one or more major cloud platform providers (e.g. Azure, AWS)
• Demonstrated success with application delivery in mid-size (2000+ staff) corporations
• Strong scripting skills

Other Qualifications & Desired Competencies:

• Advanced degree is preferred
• Uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways
• Exhibits effective interpersonal, listening and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Communicates ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Successfully works within a multi-project environment and supports multiple internal customers