Engineer I, DevOps

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS); Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance (PPO) and HD

Dental and vision insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Savings Account (FSA)

Life insurance

Disability leave programs

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Paid vacation time

Job summary

ABS Wavesight is seeking a DevOps Team Lead in Digital Solutions to steer cloud design, development, and maintenance. You will champion automated CI/CD pipelines, oversee multiple client projects, and guide a skilled team toward scalable, high-quality software delivery.

Ideal candidates bring a decade of relevant experience, strong Azure expertise, and a proven ability to drive DevOps practices, mentoring teammates and optimizing deployments in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required.
• Typically requires at least 10 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision for web applications using Azure and related tech.
• Assign work and guide a team of developers across multiple client projects.
• Develop, test, and debug new modules and enhancements.
• Contribute to an agile team to document requirements and estimate work.

Skills

Azure deployments

CI/CD

DevOps

Automation

Team leadership

Software architecture

ETL techniques

SQL stored procedures

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Azure

CI/CD tools

Job description

The DevOps Team Lead in Digital Solutions is responsible for leading a team that will drive the cloud solutions design, development, and maintenance, including best practices for scalability. This role is responsible for the automation of software development and deployment lifecycle to deliver speed to market, efficiency, and quality, resulting in higher value to customers. Preferred locations for this role are Houston, Texas or Knoxville, Tennessee.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the technical vision for web applications using Microsoft Azure stack and other relevant technology.
• Assign work and guide a team of product developers who are working on several client projects simultaneously.
• Develop, test, and debug new modules and enhancements.
• Contribute to an agile project team to help understand and document client requirements, estimate work, develop new solutions, and enhance existing solutions.
• Actively conduct code reviews and facilitate peer code reviews to enhance quality.
• Work closely with the team to create/maintain an automated CI/CD software pipeline.
• Mentor product developers to grow their technical skills.
• Build and maintain end-to-end deployment automation, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure management, as well as other internal tools to streamline the development process and enhance productivity.
• Promote and collaborate on development and coding best practices.
• Research new technologies and create software architecture strategies to meet defined business objectives, including but not limited to minimizing cloud infrastructure cost.

What You Will Need:

• Education and Experience Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required.
• Typically requires at least 10 years of relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong experience developing, managing, and automating deployments for complex web applications deployed to Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
• In-depth understanding of software development process and workflows.
• Strong experience monitoring cloud-based applications for errors and performance.
• Strong experience with software design, ETL techniques, writing complex stored procedures, query optimization, data synchronization, code refactoring, DevOps, CI/CD, continuous testing, and version control.
• Ability to work in a team environment and have strong coordination, organization, and communication skills.
• Ability to define, design, and implement an automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) system.
• Ability to develop a working knowledge of ABS Rules, Guides, statutory regulations, and related instructions, as well as the ABS Employee Safety Policy.

Reporting Relationships

Reports directly to the Director, Manager, or Executive role.

About ABS Wavesight

ABS Wavesight is the new ABS Affiliate maritime software as a service (SaaS) company dedicated to helping shipowners and operators streamline compliance while maintaining competitive,more efficient, and sustainable operations. Our mission is to develop world-class software products that improve vessel performance for the health of our seas, environment and self. The ABS Wavesight portfolio is comprised of best-in-class proprietary technology and third-party integrations that offer unparalleled insight into every aspect of a fleet's operations. Backed by ABS's 160-year legacy of maritime innovation and experience, our products are collectively installed on more than 5,000 vessels across the global fleet. Learn more about ABS Wavesight by visiting www.abswavesight.com.

About Our Benefits

ABS Wavesight proudly offers a variety of industry-leading benefits designed to enhance the life and well-being of our employees and their families. These benefits include, but are not limited to:

• medical insurance (PPO and HD)
• dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings account (HSA)
• Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
• life insurance
• accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• disability leave programs
• parental leave program
• paid holidays
• paid vacation time

Equal Opportunity

ABS Wavesight is committed to the equal employment opportunity of its employees and prohibits discrimination against any employee or qualified applicant based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status, or other non-work-related characteristics that may be protected under the law of the Federal Government or specific state employment laws.

Notice

ABS and Affiliated Companies (ABS) will not pay a fee to any third-party agency without a valid ABS Master Service Agreement (MSA) authorized and signed by Human Resources. Any resume, CV, application, or other forms of candidate submission provided to any employee of ABS without a valid MSA on file will be considered property of ABS, and no fee will be paid.

Other

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with the job of the incumbent. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making a fair decision regarding the pay structure of the job.