Engineer I, DevOps
At a glance
Mid-level DevOps & Release role at American Bureau of Shipping Career Site. Houston · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $120,000–$167,500 across the United States.
American Bureau of Shipping Career Site has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
devopsroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Set the technical direction for web applications built with Microsoft Azure and guide developers across concurrent client projects
- Build, test, and troubleshoot application modules while helping the agile team scope and document client needs
- Maintain the CI/CD pipeline and automate deployments, monitoring, cloud infrastructure, and internal development tools
- Review code, promote sound engineering practices, and coach developers on their technical growth
- Assess technologies and shape software architecture, including ways to control cloud infrastructure costs
What you bring
- A computer science degree at bachelor’s or master’s level, or an equivalent qualification
- Around ten years or more of relevant experience
- Strong background deploying and operating complex web applications in Microsoft Azure, including monitoring for errors and performance
- Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD automation, software development workflows, and the listed data and engineering practices
Who this fits
This is a senior technical lead role: you’ll set direction, assign work, and mentor product developers while contributing to delivery. Houston or Knoxville is preferred. The role reports to a director, manager, or executive.
From the employer
The DevOps Team Lead in Digital Solutions is responsible for leading a team that will drive the cloud solutions design, development, and maintenance, including best practices for scalability. This role is responsible for the automation of software development and deployment lifecycle to deliver speed to market, efficiency, and quality, resulting in higher value to customers.
Preferred locations for this role are Houston, Texas or Knoxville, Tennessee.
What You Will Do:
- Lead the technical vision for web applications using Microsoft Azure stack and other relevant technology.
- Assign work and guide a team of product developers who are working on several client projects simultaneously.
- Develop, test, and debug new modules and enhancements.
- Contribute to an agile project team to help understand and document client requirements, estimate work, develop new solutions, and enhance existing solutions.
- Actively conduct code reviews and facilitate peer code reviews to enhance quality.
- Work closely with the team to create/maintain an automated CI/CD software pipeline.
- Mentor product developers to grow their technical skills.
- Build and maintain end-to-end deployment automation, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure management, as well as other internal tools to streamline the development process and enhance productivity.
- Promote and collaborate on development and coding best practices.
- Research new technologies and create software architecture strategies to meet defined business objectives, including but not limited to minimizing cloud infrastructure cost.
What You Will Need:
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required.
- Typically requires at least 10 years of relevant experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong experience developing, managing, and automating deployments for complex web applications deployed to Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
- In-depth understanding of software development process and workflows.
- Strong experience monitoring cloud-based applications for errors and performance.
- Strong experience with software design, ETL techniques, writing complex stored procedures, query optimization, data synchronization, code refactoring, DevOps, CI/CD, continuous testing, and version control.
- Ability to work in a team environment and have strong coordination, organization, and communication skills.
- Ability to define, design, and implement an automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) system.
- Ability to develop a working knowledge of ABS Rules, Guides, statutory regulations, and related instructions, as well as the ABS Employee Safety Policy.
Reporting Relationships:
Reports directly to the Director, Manager, or Executive role.