DevOps Architect

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This position would require being onsite in Wyoming, MI or Atlanta, GA 4 days/week.

Are you passionate about building the future of software development?  If so, revolutionize Software Delivery by becoming our next DevOps Architect!

We're seeking a talented and driven DevOps Architect specializing in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to join our dynamic team! If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love solving complex problems, and want to make a real impact, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.

What You'll Do:

• Design and implement cutting-edge CI/CD pipelines that accelerate our software delivery lifecycle.

• Architect scalable and reliable DevOps solutions that empower our development teams.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and best practices in DevOps.

• Lead the charge in automating processes, improving efficiency, and ensuring high-quality releases.

• Explore and integrate the latest technologies to keep our DevOps infrastructure at the forefront of the industry.

What You'll Gain:

• Impact: Play a pivotal role in shaping our software development process and directly contribute to our company's success.

• Growth: Expand your skills and knowledge in a challenging and rewarding environment. 

• Innovation: Work with the latest tools and technologies and be encouraged to explore new ideas and solutions.

• Team: Join a collaborative and supportive team of talented professionals who are passionate about what they do.

• Challenge: Tackle complex problems and push the boundaries of what's possible in DevOps.

Position Summary:

Responsible for creating a mechanism for defining and rolling out enterprise standards for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment & Software Configuration Management (SCM) and for coordinating efforts to drive a consistent and appropriate use of automated testing and deployment across the enterprise.  Partners with internal product groups and development teams to develop technical design and processes for the automation of software development, release and deployment using a CI/CD platform and management of GCP cloud infrastructure for development, test and production environments. Champions for DevOps to bring consistency and best practices in our approach, tools, and standards.  Ensures DevOps strategy is implemented at every stage of the end-to-end development.

Essential Functions:

• Setup, maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build/ integration infrastructure

• Supporting CI/CD tools integration/ operations/ change management, and maintenance

• Training and supporting developers from source control, through build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, deployment based on tools usage and policies, standards

• Provide thought leadership on architecture and technology matters; ensuring that technology work is aligned to long-term strategic business interests with CI/CD and SCM

• Provide leadership for a Center For Enablement (C4E) group to drive the creation of good governance and standards for CI/CD and SCM across all core technology platforms

• Strategically balance diverse objectives for CI/CD and SCM to ensure the appropriate level of value, risk, and engineering autonomy

• Ensure CI/CD and SCM practices are appropriately factoring in non-functional requirements (resiliency, security, code quality, etc.)

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture team (EA) to drive value-centric buy vs. build considerations when evolving the CI/CD tool chain

• Work closely with EA, Centralized Application Development and Quality Assurance to help define standards for automated testing and where to prioritize automated testing

• Ability to work closely with development teams to solve complex solution challenges, drive code modernization, governance, and cloud transformation efforts

• Advocate technical architecture and build consensus for the adoption of new technologie