DevOps Engineer II - IBM Power

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter at Fortra. If you’re passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more!

At Fortra, we’re breaking the attack chain. Ready to join us?

This position is responsible for maintaining existing software products as well as developing new products. The ideal candidate has a strong desire for excellence, has started taking more initiative, works with less supervision, has confidence in their expertise, a team player and is a creative problem solver.

The DevOps team provides operational services to all software delivery teams. They build and maintain hardware and software infrastructure for critical engineering services such as issue and task tracking, software configuration management, build and test systems. Their goal is to ever improve engineering practices and efficiencies for all developers, via the maintenance and enhancement of key engineering resources and the intelligent automation of build and quality processes in a Continuous Delivery environment.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Analyze and solve various assigned DevOps issues
• Have and/or is working toward obtaining basic knowledge of assigned Fortra product(s)
• Able to start writing less complex technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security best practices into development workflows
• Help identify, prioritize, and execute tasks to meet project deadlines
• Follow and help refine our development best practices and standards
• Help identify and execute tasks to meet project deadlines
• Comply with standards, version controls, and product release procedures
• Work under minimal supervision on various projects with some latitude for independent judgement
• Assist or mentor other less experienced team members
• Actively participate in all Agile ceremonies
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

• Working knowledge of software life-cycle applications
• Working knowledge of DevOps concepts and the desire to implement best practices
• The ability and self-discipline to use self-training tools (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)
• Proficiency in programming, scripting and automation.
• A good working knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines, e.g. Jenkins/Gitlab/GitHub/Docker/etc.
• Effective interpersonal and professional communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Good English verbal and written communications skills
• The ability to collaborate and work with various development teams
• Typically requires 3-5 years of experience
• Ability to effectively handle multiple projects and responsibilities.

Ideal candidates will also have:

• Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, or C#.
• IBM i skills and experience
• Skills and experience with the IBM Power platform
• IBM i CL Programming experience

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