As part of the Siemens PLM Digital Manufacturing organization, this position makes significant contributions towards the delivery of DevOps solutions that support best-in-class cloud-based and on-prem microservice applications.  As a DevOps Engineer, you will have key responsibilities in defining, planning, implementing, deploying, and operating automated infrastructure and processes that meet or exceed the service level agreements and CI/CD objectives.  

JUSTIFICATION & PURPOSE 

In this role, the successful person will create and maintain IaaS environments that meet service level agreements; support the resource requirements of the development, QA, and deployments; enable CI/CD; meet compliance and best practice standards; and are well documented.  They will participate in, and sometimes lead, proof of concept and first-of-a-kind activities to validate product concepts. 

Responsible for surpassing customer expectations to achieve high-quality, innovative solutions to enhance automation and achieve deployment repeatability by completing all deployments on time.  Has diversified knowledge of methods and practices in broad areas of infrastructure development and operations. Recognized by peers as a strong collaborator.  Must excel in a team environment that changes with new technology adoption and evolving customer requirements.  Works with some supervision on the most complex projects and desires to obtain complete latitude for independent judgment.  Has excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

* Be part of a global operation team, highly available SaaS environment according to internal and external service levels agreements. 

* Ensure the product deployment gets completed within agreed SLA and enhance installation guide and IaC automation to achieve deployment repeatability. 

* Collaborate with IT teams to integrate virtualization with networking, storage, and security solutions.

* Ensure the production environment is operating in accordance with established procedures and best practices. 

* Provide escalated support for high-severity and critical network events. 

* Contribute to Operations strategy planning, design, implementation, deployment and maintenance activities. 

* Using Infrastructure As Code (IAC) best practices, create automated infrastructure within Azure/AWS, including package management, application load, and configuration, and systems monitoring and administration. 

* Deliver improvements to source code management, deployment, operations, maintenance, cost control, security, monitoring, and audit tools and processes. 

* Implement and maintain CI/CD tools and processes to support development, QA, and customer value realization teams. 

* Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of virtual environments to meet business requirements

* Manage a service-critical codebase with version control using Git including Gitlab, or GitHub 

REQUIREMENTS: 

* Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5+ years of IT experience or equivalent experience. 

* Experience in virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere, ESXi, Hyper-V).

* Hands-on experience with storage and networking concepts related to virtualized environments (e.g., SAN, NAS, VLANs).

* Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, or equivalent tools 

* Experience with containerization, specifically Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Rancher 

* Experience with networking and network/system security, Storage, including firewalls, VPN, routing, switching, load balancers, monitoring, security, and DNS 

* Experience with shell scripting - sh/bash/ksh 

* Experience with open-source tools (Linux, Python, Git, Ansible) 

* Experience with system automation at the enterprise level, distributed environments 

* Senior-level system administration experience, including troubleshooting, support, mentorship/training, and oversight 

* Ability to adopt and extend continuous integration and testing processes, GitLab-CI experience preferred 

* Ability to manage goals, track milestones, and report on the status. 

 Preferred Qualifications: 

* Strong base for software architecture and design including inter-process communications, asynchronous processing, micro-services, message queueing, interfaces, and API development 

* Understanding of Cloud APIs and Cloud technologies specifically Azure & AWS 

* Strong understanding of Internet security considerations in web and application development 

* Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Grafana, Kibana, Cloud Checker) 

* Linux administration & troubleshooting 

* Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) in conjunction with virtualization

* Experience in an Enterprise IT environment. 

* Experience with the design, development, and configuration of information security tools. 

* Experience with SOC compliance 

Preferred Technologies: 

* Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS 

* Virtualization platform: VMware vSphere, ESXi & Hyper-V

* Container platforms: Docker, Kubernetes(EKS/AKS), OpenShift, Rancher 

* Code repositories: Gitlab, GitHub 

* Logging & Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Grafana, CloudChecker, ELK, Prometheus 

* Artifactory: jfrog, maven 

* Automation tools: Ansible, Chef, puppet, ArgoCD 

* IaC tools : Terraform, CloudFormation