DevOps/SRE (Supplier Hub Tech Lead)

DevOps/SRE (Supplier Hub Tech Lead) Duration: 6 Month, Contract to HireLocation: RemotePay: $60/hour JOB DESCRIPTION A monetary force, this company, with over one hundred and fifty billion dollars in annual revenue is the pulse of the retail industry. By having over 2,750 different locations in thirty-five states, there is no doubt that this company directly impacts the lives of many people in the American populous, and, by extension, in the world populous. Being a part of such a massive retail organization can be intimidating, but this company, through their subsidiaries, is able to maintain personal relationships with their employees. Through intentionality, integrity, and innovation, this company is able to be an ideal workplace that excites and has a profound impact on several communities. This company fully understands that by working together there is no limit to what can be created.This Candidate must be prepared to specialize in developing scalable methods for building, deploying, and supporting Cloud, on-prem and store focused enterprise services and systems. This Candidate has to work closely with Software Engineers to deploy and operate solutions, automate, and streamline processes, build, and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring of platform, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments. This Candidate has to be able to demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and build infrastructure and systems that provide high levels of scalability, reliability, and performance for the company stack, while balancing security, maintainability, reliability, and operational excellence
• Work with the engineering team to continuously implement and improve reliable and speedy build environments for DEV & QA
• Provide timely build status updates; automate as much as possible to improve efficiency and quality
• Promote innovation, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, and self-organization
• Ensure traceability, observability, and retrievability of system behavior
• Build logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to identify bottlenecks and assist with debugging, analysis, and optimization in Cloud, on-prem and store environments
• Experiment with and recommend new technologies that simplify or improve the stack
• Craft solid and clearly explained designs, playbooks, and documentation, for consumption by teammates and the larger engineering organization
• Participate in an off-hours on-call rotation, and perform periodic off-hours work during maintenance windows
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
• Anticipates customer needs, champions for the customer, acts with customers in mind, exceeds customers' expectations, gains customers' trust and respect
• Communicates clearly and directly, approachable, relates well to others, engages people, and helps them understand change, provides, and seeks feedback, articulates clearly, actively listens
• Is open to diverse ideas, works inclusively and collaboratively, holds self and others accountable, involves others to accomplish individual and team goals
• Demonstrates strong character; builds partnerships; models a conscious balance between work and personal life; takes personal responsibility for own development; role models leadership qualities such as motivation, inspiration, passion, and trust
• Develops and cares about associates, builds effective teams, helps people be their best, values and manages diversity, provides candid and constructive feedback
• Challenges the status quo, embraces technology, puts forward creative ideas, champions and implements process improvements, gathers the ideas of others, demonstrates good judgment about which ideas will work
• Is action oriented, drives for results, sets clear expectations and milestones, reviews progress, acts decisively, solves problems, can be counted on to consistently meet or exceed goals
• Plans and organizes well, sets a clear and simple course of action, stays focused on the most important priorities, has the ability to visualize and plan for the future, understands the industry and marketplace

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent related experience (8+ years) and strong theoretical fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, lock-free data structures, multi-threaded architectures etc).
• 4+ years of experience in the Cloud SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure, or any related fields
• Any understanding of SSH, VPN, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), network routing and subnets
• Any experience with always-on and high-volume web server stack, Azure/Google Cloud Platform PaaS and Azure/Google networking, provisioning native Managed Apps & CI/CD pipelines
• Proven knowledge of technology to support omnichannel experiences
• Proven knowledge of service-oriented architecture/Cloud
• Fluent in Shell Scripting with experience implementing automation and monitoring using shell scripting and other related tools
• Knowledge of Linux architecture, security, administration, performance monitoring/tuning, troubleshooting, and production operations

• Any experience in designing/working in high volume eCommerce applications
• Any experience configuring and managing Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
• Any experience with technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Ansible, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, TeamCity
• 1 year of experience managing System Observability experience (ELK, PagerDuty, Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Grafana, etc)