DevOps Engineer

SWBC; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Work/Life balance

Employee engagement activities

Years of Service awards

Career growth opportunities

401(k) retirement plans

Wellness program

Job summary

SWBC is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and support automation for our public and private cloud deployments and configuration management across all environments. You will improve efficiency and scalability of software and infrastructure using modern tools and programming.

Responsibilities include building automation, CI/CD, and secure deployments in AWS and private clouds. The role collaborates with Cloud, information security, and business teams in an agile setting,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field from an accredited college.
• Minimum of five years experience managing AWS resources and automating CI/CD pipelines.
• AWS Developer Associate and/or AWS SysOps Administrator Associate required.
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification required.
• Experience with release engineering and source code management is a plus.
• Azure or Google Cloud experience is a plus.
• Experience automating zero-downtime deployments (Blue/Green, Canary).
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Proficient with Docker, Kubernetes, and virtualization tech.
• Strong Windows and Linux admin skills in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Build automation tools to streamline and scale apps into production.
• Develop and maintain scripts, tools, and processes for software releases.
• Leverage scripting to build and enhance tooling for CI/CD and deployments.
• Create automated, scalable, repeatable processes.
• Investigate and implement enhancements to development and operations.
• Participate in release planning and ensure robust release processes.
• Deploy releases to DEV/QA/Prod via automation.
• Collaborate with engineers and product teams in Agile settings.
• Document results and prepare status reports for management.
• Maintain end-to-end security with best practices.

Skills

CI/CD automation

Cloud DevOps practices

Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash)

Agile collaboration

Security best practices

Networking basics (DNS/NFS/TCP-IP)

Troubleshooting and incident response

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

SWBC is seeking a talented individual to design, implement, and support automation relating to our public and private cloud software deployments and the automation of Configuration Management of all Development, Quality Assurance, User Acceptance, and Production servers. This key role is responsible for improving our efficiency and the scalability of both software and infrastructure cloud deployments leveraging modern toolsets and programming. In addition, performs systems tests, automation and initiation of software builds, and code deployments, version control management, and change management associated with company systems to improve the quality of products.

Why you'll love this role: In this role, you will work amongst Cloud, information security, technology, and business professionals in the financial services industry within an enterprise level environment. As the DevOps Engineer, you will be involved in designs decisions, implementations, coding (Node.JS or .NET Core(C#), build and support CI/CD and automation relating to our AWS cloud and private cloud software deployments and the automation of Configuration Management of all Development, Quality Assurance, User Acceptance, and Production servers. Bring your skills involving VPC, EC2, Route53, IAM, Lambda and other AWS concepts and deploy releases to higher environments (DEV/QA/Prod) through automation and work closely and collaboratively in an Agile environment with engineers. SWBC offers amazing career advancement opportunities, leverages amazing technology and automation and celebrates our success as a team. IT leadership recognize that empowerment, autonomy, work-life balance, professional development, continuous improvement, and a commitment to shared values are key enablers of our success.

Essential duties include the following:

• Builds engineering automation tools using DevOps principles to help streamline and scale applications into a production environment.
• Develops, analyzes, and maintains scripts, tools, hardware, and systems that support and automate processes for software releases.
• Leverages scripting (Python, BASH, PowerShell etc.) to build tools.
• Creates automated, highly scalable, and repeatable processes.
• Proactively investigates, recommends, and develops enhancements to improve development and operational processes.
• Actively participates in release planning process to make sure everyone is thinking through the technical release processes.
• Deploys releases to higher environments (DEV/QA/Prod) through automation.
• Works closely and collaboratively in an Agile environment with engineers and product teams to analyze issues and find new insights covering our business and operations.
• Documents results of work and prepares status reports to include successes and failures for all systems for submission to division and corporate management.
• Maintains end-to-end security ensuring best practices are implemented.
• Troubleshoots and resolves application development, deployments and operational issues.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Serious candidates will possess the minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field of study from an accredited four-year college or university required.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in managing AWS resources and automating CI/CD pipelines required.
• AWS Certified Developer Associate and/or AWS SysOps Administrator Associate required.
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification required.
• Experience in Release Engineering, Source Code Management, or related experience in an automated build, test and deploy environment a plus.
• Experience with Azure or Google Cloud a plus.
• Experience automating Blue/Green, Canary or other zero down time deployments.
• Experience with microservices and/or event-driven architecture.
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos or Vagrant).
• Virtualization experience (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM) a plus.
• Working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Working knowledge of QA and test methodologies.
• Knowledge of secure SDLC, OWASP top 10 and CWE/SANS top 25.
• Knowledge of infrastructure tools: Cloud Formation, Terraform.
• Advanced understanding of VPC, EC2, Route53, IAM, Lambda and other AWS concepts.
• Understanding of DNS, NFS, TCP/IP and other protocols.
• Proficiency Node.JS or .NET Core(C#).
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python or Bash.
• NoSQL exposure [Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.].
• Strong practical Windows and Linux system administration skills in the cloud.
• RDBMS exposure [MySQL, SQL Server, Aurora, etc.] a plus.
• Able to build and administer CI/CD.
• Able to sit for long periods of time performing sedentary activities.

SWBC offers*:

• Competitive overall compensation package
• Work/Life balance
• Employee engagement activities and recognition awards
• Years of Service awards
• Career enhancement and growth opportunities
• Leadership Academy and Mentor Program
• Continuing education and career certifications
• Variety of healthcare coverage options
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) retirement plans
• Lucrative Wellness Program

Additional Information:

SWBC is a Substance‑Free Workplace and requires pre-employment drug testing. Please note, SWBC does not hire tobacco users as allowed by law. To learn more about SWBC, visit our website at www.SWBC.com.

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SWBC is a diversified financial services company providing insurance, mortgage, and investment services to financial institutions, businesses, and individuals. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, SWBC employs 2,400 people nationwide. At SWBC, you are not just an employee number, but a vital team member; each employee stands out and has the ability to make a direct impact at SWBC.

We’re looking for the brightest and most creative to help introduce new solutions to new problems identified in the market and improve how our existing solutions can better help our users. SWBC is a big proponent of nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit through mentorship, continuing education, internal career growth opportunities and having a platform to make meaningful changes come to life.