DevOps Engineer

General Description

The DevOps Engineer plays a key role in supporting the efforts of embedded software development, and automated build and deployment activities for our industrial equipment firmware while working with our dynamic hands -on engineering team. This position collaborates with upstream and downstream teams to make sure the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is being implemented properly and is providing expected results.

Competencies

• Adaptability – Adjust approach to match varied task requirements, adjust behavior to other’s styles, change priorities to meet changing demands
  

• Analytical Thinking – Breaks problems into simple lists of tasks or activities, identifies potential causes of events, consequences or actions, analyzes relationships among several parts of a problem or situation
  

• Practical Learning – Ask questions to obtain new information, acquire skill by observing others, improve skill through practice
  

• Attention to Detail – Check outputs for accuracy and completeness, follow established procedures, maintain checklist to cover details
  

• Team Work & Cooperation –
  

  • Build relationships: Ask for help and encourage involvement
    

  • Contribute to team/organizational success: Volunteer ideas and help, build on others’ ideas, support group decisions
    

Accountabilities

1. Design, create and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools for the development teams (Systems Engineering, Product Development and Sustaining).
   

2. Collaborate with embedded firmware and software engineering teams to drive automation and innovation in the SDLC.
   

3. Assist with the development and documentation of the build & setup engineering guidelines.
   

4. Where applicable Create, Containerize, Standardize and Minimize software tools.
   

5. Help other engineer’s understanding of the build framework, following best practices for build, and configuring entities & applications as required.
   

6. Work with development teams to troubleshoot specific issues by recreating tests, validating configuration etc. for pipelines and test automation.
   

7. Actively research, determine usability and adopt cutting -edge DevOps technologies for embedded development.
   

8. Maintain continuous integration system.
   

9. Maintain build tools and coordinate with teams to make sure they can update as needed.
   

10. Maintain various scripts to support build and deployment systems (written in Python, Shell, batch etc).
    

11. Implement and maintain static and dynamic code analysis tools
    

12. Enable and enhance Unit Testing Framework and Integrate into Pipeline
    

13. Guide technical team members to complete integration of DevOps practices into development flow as needed.
    

14. Other duties as assigned.