DevOps Engineer

Company: Southern New Hampshire University
Location: Hooksett
Posted on: January 28, 2023

Job Description:

We are one growing team with one powerful goal - and as a global leader in education, we strive for a workforce that reflects the individual differences of our learning community. We believe that our employees can be their best selves when they can be their true selves. That is why we're committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion in which all our employees feel welcomed, valued and empowered. Together, we will shape the future of education by transforming lives beginning with yours.Our Workforce Is Expanding Beyond New Hampshire!We have remote work opportunities available in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.The OpportunityThe DevOps Engineer is a remote friendly positions (#LI-Remote) and collaborates with and across Agile teams to design, test, and support technical solutions in full-stack development technologies support of SNHU's our goals. You will partner with both business and technology leaders to provide a secure, scalable, flexible, agile, and modern technical approach aimed at meeting the university's growing needs. We are looking for skills in cloud application ecosystem working knowledge of software development methodologies including code profiling, regression testing, continuous integration, and push button deployments. Experience with high-availability, high-performance, open-source web technologies is needed as well as the ability to automate all infrastructure build-out, enterprise and security.In this Role You'll Get To:

• Partner with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate our requirements into technology solutions.
• Integrate business and service strategy into enterprise reference architecture for application integration and data availability/systems of record.
• Design reference architecture for new app development.
• You will manage relationships with external vendors and partners to architect technology solutions that meet our needs.
• Implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, Ruby and Go, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, CM tools including Ansible and Terraform, and a variety of Google tools and services.
• Partner with other university solution architects to provide agreement-based scalable and adaptable architectural solutions.
• You will develop guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the development teams.
• Develop a software release strategy across the entire Symbiotic system, with input from the business, project plans, development and testing teams, and our customers.
• Manage risks and resolving issues related to the releases that affects scope, schedule, and quality.
• Coordinate release content for designated releases.
• Communicate all important project plans, commitments, and changes to the release vehicles, including requirements, QA plans, schedules, and scope changes.
• Generate release notifications and release summaries.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.What we're Looking For:
  • Six years of proven experience working in a DevOps role (or similar) with domain expertise in automation, virtualization, and cloud engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in an IT related discipline.Equivalent of experience in lieu of degree acceptable: x Yes No
    • Professional Certification(s): N/A
    • Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch (e.g., GitHub actions, Jenkins)
    • You will need experience with Linux systems administration/solving, servers, and cloud architecture and DevOps technologies (i.e., Vagrant, Docker, GitHub, GKE, or IaC tools ).
    • Knowledge of implementing Terraform, at Enterprise Scale.
    • Experience with Enterprise Productivity Infrastructure (Slack, Google Workspace) with an attitude of automation and self-service in addition to experience with version control systems, such as GitHub
    • Coding/scripting and debugging experience for building and integrating systems & solutions (Bash, Python, HCL, JavaScript, or GoLang)
    • Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, or Azure platforms. Cloud provisioning, infrastructure, and migration at cloud scale with an understanding of fundamental network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, SQL, HTTP.Preferred Qualifications:
      • Master's degree
      • Understand the use of native cloud technologies for user management, security, costing, and tools.
      • Broad in-depth understanding for onboarding applications into IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings, deployment automation, DevOps, scripting, containers, and cloud governance.
      • Familiarity with Python language.Thinking about the job, but not sure you should apply? We still want to hear from you.We recognize that not everyone enters the world of work with the same advantage, opportunity, and privilege. This is why your skills and experiences are important to us. Take the leap and apply, you just might be the person we are looking for!Are Benefits Important to You?We offer exceptional benefits, many available starting on the first day of employment:Anthem BlueCross affordable, low-deductible Medical insurance available on day oneLow to no-cost Dental, Vision and Life Insurance options5 weeks of Paid Time Off that starts accruing on day one & Paid HolidaysA Retirement Plan with a 9% Employer Funded annual contributionTuition Benefits with family offeringsWho Are We?SNHU employees are a team in every sense. Separately, we understand that each individual brings unique experiences, perspectives and ideas to create a vibrant work environment. Together we share common values of honesty, acceptance and accountability working as a unified force toward a common goal: to transform the lives of learners. By joining our team, you join us in our vision. Together, we'll shape the future of education by transforming lives-beginning with yours.We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.Remote work disclaimerPlease note that this is a remote eligible position. At SNHU, we ask that our remote employees have access to a reliable internet connection and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace at a fixed location within the United States (in one of the approved states as reflected above) that is free of distractions and dependencies.Please note that a background check is required for employment.

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