Principal DevOps Engineer, IT - DevOps Engineers

Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America, providing products and expertise that help nearly 16 million people save for a better today and tomorrow.

The Principal Dev Ops Engineer is a technical leadership role, responsible for day-to-day oversight of the application engineering/Dev Ops practices, maintaining a disciplined and stable application environment for development, testing and production. This position provides technical leadership to the Dev Ops Engineers and provides the highest level of support for application issues in the production and development environments. This position also evaluates innovative and alternative solutions, provides recommendations, and identifies risk and cost.

The Principal Dev Ops Engineer is responsible for

the strategic design, scalability, and performance of the application systems infrastructure, including automation practices and tools leveraged. This position provides consultative services to the business units and IT management on all phases of projects.

• Oversee server builds, deployments, packaging, integration, automation and releases of our Software.
• Continuously collaborating with team(s) to evaluate Monitoring and Performance of the environment & build Standards and consistent practices around Infrastructure as Code.
• Responsible for process development, ensuring opportunity to automate scripts for software builds and deployments and lead in helping streamline the pipeline
• Participate in Technology/Architecture and design discussions and required to contribute to developing the solutions architecture, designing automation templates for infrastructure provisioning, configuration & change management, and developing the detailed technical design.
• Lead researching on new tools/ technology solutions/processes, build consensus and plan to introduce cost justifiable technology to improve SDLC pipeline
• Provide day to day technical leadership to the application engineers and be an evangelist of Devops principles to the team(s)
• Continually finding ways to optimize and building out a comprehensive architecture/strategy for supporting applications in production
• The scope of work includes build, machine configuration, test infrastructure and virtual machine deployment.
• Responsible for protecting and securing all client data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access to and/or improper transmission of information that could result in harm to a client.
• The I-Client philosophy and the Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always® should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organizational culture.

• Lead the teams across projects, supporting by problem-solving / trouble shooting and innovating/ building solutions for infrastructure needs
• Collaborate with other technology leaders across the organization (Engineering/DBA/Operations) to optimize our environments.
• Yes-Mentoring & Coaching, No - People management

• Minimum of 10+ years of Hands-on experience working as a Dev Ops/Build/Deployment and Engineering & Operations skills
• Experience with Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and related tools
• Hands-on experience in production environments, both deploying and troubleshooting applications in Linux environment.
• Strong experience automating with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Groovy and any deployment scripting languages
• Strong experience with CI/CD deployment supporting Java technologies (Jenkins, Nexus, Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, Perforce/Git )
• Highly Proficient in Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef or Similar)
• Hands-on experience with Containerization, Docker & Kubernetes is required.
• Excellent understanding of Micro-services architecture, design patterns, and standard methodologies with an eye towards scale, automation, resiliency, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Excellent understanding of networking, load balancing, caching, security, config and certificate management.
• Bachelor’s degree…