Senior Systems Engineer, Enterprise Infrastructure Automation & Monitoring

Kontoor Brands, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration! This exciting role focuses on leading the evolution of the Global SAP technical landscape, enhancing infrastructure and application availability through cutting-edge automation strategies. You will leverage your extensive experience in IT service delivery, coding, and DevOps practices to drive efficiency and resilience in a dynamic environment. With a commitment to employee wellbeing and a culture of belonging, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package that supports your lifestyle. If you're passionate about technology and looking to contribute to a global team, this position is for you!

Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible Fridays

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Discounts

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive IT experience in automation and infrastructure.
• Strong background in coding and implementing DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategies to evolve Global SAP technical landscape.
• Automate IT service delivery and operations using IaC tools.

Skills

Infrastructure Automation

DevOps

SCRUM/Agile

Performance Tuning

Automation Strategies

Coding

System Integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

Dynatrace

IPSoft Amelia

Broadcom-CA Automic

Job description

Who We Are:

Kontoor Brands, Inc. (KTB) is the parent company of Wrangler, Lee and Rock & Republic, with owned manufacturing facilities in Mexico and Nicaragua. Kontoor also owns and operates over 140 retail stores across the globe. Our global company employs more than 15,000 people in 65 countries, with world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and regional headquarters in Geneva and Hong Kong.

Job Posting:

Position will be based on Remote, India.

This role requires you to provide thought leadership and strategies to evolve Global SAP technical landscape, pro-actively contributing to infrastructure and application availability and resiliency through performance tuning.

Engineering, Code Development and Operations:

1. IT service delivery and operations, including infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, deployment, and incident response using IaC platforms, tools, and solutions such as IPSoft Amelia, Red Hat Ansible, OpenShift, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Broadcom-CA Automic, Dynatrace, Azure Monitoring and others to reduce manual efforts and increase productivity and resiliency.
2. Analyze existing complex IT processes and workflows, identify areas for improvement, and develop automation strategies, plans, and coding to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance scalability with proactive monitoring (with tools such as Dynatrace, Azure Monitoring, etc.) and alerting mechanisms to detect and automatically resolve system issues to ensure high availability and performance.
3. Write scripts and develop code using programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, Golang, JavaScript, YAML, JSON, Ruby, Apache Camel or Bash to automate routine tasks, Enterprise Job Scheduling, data processing, proactive monitoring/alerting/events correlation intelligence, break-fix self-healing, and system integration across multi-cloud infrastructure (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) both public and private.
4. Utilize orchestration and configuration management tools (e.g., IPSoft Amelia, Ansible) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Azure DevOps, OpenShift) to automate the provisioning, installation, configuration, and management of IT infrastructure, enterprise job scheduling (Broadcom-CA Automic), and application components to deliver end-to-end self-service IT automation solutions such as Database as a Service, Application as a Service, Disaster Recovery, monitoring/alerting, and backup as a Service.

Architecture Standards and Strategy:

1. Providing thought leadership, strategies, and designs to evolve Global IT Automation journey goals and objectives, pro-actively contributing to infrastructure and application availability and resiliency through automated infrastructure test development lifecycle for IaC platforms, tools, and solutions such as IPSoft Amelia, Red Hat Ansible, OpenShift, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Broadcom-CA Automic, Dynatrace, Azure Monitoring, and others. Providing mentorship, cross-training, and guiding other infrastructure team members on IaC automation DevOps CI/CD cultural transformation, infrastructure and application stack, peer review of codes and infrastructure/application technical system and automation design to improve automation code quality and standards and drive wider adoption of IaC automation culture across Kontoor.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Development/Engineering, Infrastructure Technology Automation/Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred.
• 12+ Years of progressive Enterprise IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals including a large-scale global IT operation, coding, infrastructure automation, SCRUM/Agile-DevOps/SysOps/CICD/SDLC methodologies, design, implementation, migrations, transformations, deployment rollout including broad experience with driving greenfield IT automation platform’s architecture/design/implementation/administration, service management and IT governance/control processes. Platform-as-a-Service, and Software as a Service capabilities including core infrastructure, physical & virtual machines, physical & virtual network/network security, load balancers, and infrastructure applications/platforms (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, IIS, Tomcat, Apache, etc.) and database services.
• Experience in DevOps/CICD, software development, infrastructure code automation/development, write scripts, building automation playbooks, and develop code using programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, Golang, JavaScript, YAML, JSON, Azure CLI/ARM, Ruby, Apache Camel or Bash to automate routine tasks, data processing, AI Machine Learning, and system integration across multi-cloud infrastructure (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) both public and private.

Why Kontoor Brands?

At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle. Our benefits are crafted with the same care as our products. When our employees are healthy, secure, and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family’s needs – now and in the future. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing, plus benefits like discounts on our apparel. Kontoor Brands also provides four weeks of Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents, Flexible Fridays, and Tuition Reimbursement.

We are proud to offer a workplace culture centered on equitable opportunities and a sense of belonging for all team members. Here we have a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our collaborative talents.