Sr. DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:
• Work very closely and integrated with the development community to embrace culture change.
• Together with a team of engineers, enable streamlined software development, by managing and owning the entire automated build pipeline, DevOps toolchain, and associated test environments from source control to software delivery.
• Work with peer technical leaders and their teams to enable engineers to seamlessly create CI/CD pipelines for their software components.
• Focus on continuously improving the DevOps tooling and software delivery processes.
• Own and maintain highly reliable environments and toolchains with clear communication and timeliness of any disruptions to internal stakeholders.
• Leverage industry-standard techniques and processed to help enable and provide better feedback to the development community.
• Monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environments infrastructure.
• Investigate and fix performance and scalability bottlenecks.

Experience Required

Minimum Qualifications:
Education and Experience:
• Minimum of a Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer science, IT, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Software Engineering development roles.
• Minimum of 3 years experience maintaining and managing software build infrastructure. (i.e. Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TravisCI, TFS, TeamForge, etc.)
• Minimum of 3 years experience with container technology and subsequent technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Amazon ECS, Azure Service Fabric, Harbour, Helm, Packer, Terraform)
• Strong experience creating, maintaining, and supporting automated build pipelines.
• Strong experience in version control and source control management (Subversion, TFVC, Git)
• Experience deploying, managing, and maintaining at least 2 of the following SCM toolchain as Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Nexus, TFS.
• Strong understanding of programming skillsets, structure, and Versioning
• Strong working knowledge of MSBuild.
• Experience in an object-oriented programming language (Java, C++, C#, etc..)
• Experience in scripting languages such as Bash and Python.
• Experience and knowledge of Microsoft system administration and networking.
• Knowledge of test-driven development, software configuration management, and automated testing.
• Experience managing a VMware-based virtualization environment or similar.
Assets:
• Experience with system management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or Chef.
• Experience in managing an automated build pipeline for a mixed set of software assets.
• Strong interpersonal skills (verbal and written).
• Experience using Wix and/or InstallShield.

Skills & Certifications

Candidates must be local to Bay Area
Do not submit candidates that are 100% remote, even from Bay Area
Do not submit managers, people-lead, non-technical team leads. The position requires a technical lead with strong hands-on experience of the last 5+ years.

Eligibilities & qualifications

Cient Biosciences is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer with team leadership and solid DevOps hands-on experience to join our exciting and growing team. At BD Biosciences you will have the opportunity to create software applications that are used to help all people live healthy lives. Our software portfolio powers industry-leading, ground breaking medical instruments. The Sr. DevOps Engineer plays a key role in understanding our customer challenges and defining innovative solutions to solve them.

As a DevOps team, we are looking for an associate who’s made their mark in Software Engineering. As a software engineer in DevOps, you drove quality through principles and best practices. At the same time, you saw the value of continuous integration and deployment and had a desire to contribute. You feel the need to make things faster and more efficient. That is, you don’t just work hard; you work smart. You are a champion of continuous improvement and can inspire change. You lead by example in both Dev and Ops.