Staff Software Engineer - Azure DevOps, GitHub & CI/CD

Blue Yonder is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with 11-13 years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering. This role involves architecting cloud-native SaaS products on Azure, mentoring junior engineers, and developing high-quality software. Key responsibilities include designing and implementing scalable microservices, evolving CI/CD pipelines, and troubleshooting operational concerns. Candidates should have strong skills in Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD tools, container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker, and scripting with Shell and PowerShell.

Must Have

• Architect and develop cloud-native SaaS products on Azure.
• Develop quality software following clean code principles and standards.
• Lead design and implementation of software stories.
• Evolve continuous integration pipeline and fix broken builds.
• Minimum 11-13 years experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Exposure to Cloud Technologies, Cloud Delivery, CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub).
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, interpersonal, and oral/written communication skills.
• Good scripting background (Shell, PowerShell).
• Experience with container technologies and microservice architecture (Kubernetes, Docker).

Good to Have

• Development experience in any languages.
• Experience with generative AI models and understanding of machine learning algorithms.
• Python scripting.

Perks & Benefits

• Collaboration, respect, and a great work-life balance.
• Recognized as "Best Place to Work- Employees' Choice" by Glassdoor.

Scope:

• Core responsibilities to include Architecting and a ground up cloud native (we use Azure) SaaS product in Analytics
• The team currently comprises of 100+ global associates across US, India (COE) and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have leadership qualities to also mentor junior and mid-level software associates in our team.

Our Current Technical Environment:

• Software: Java, Springboot, Gradle, GIT, Hibernate, Rest API, OAuth, Python, Powershell
• Application Architecture: Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure multi-tenant Microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD)
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark, NOSQL, RDBMS, Springboot, Gradle GIT, Ignite

What you’ll do:

• Consistently delivers solid quality in both design and implementation and helps the team shape what is built how, in particular:
• Develops quality software (including effective test code) according to clean code principles and Blue Yonder standards.
• Provides input for the prioritization of issues in the backlog and autonomously pulls issues or supports other team members as appropriate.
• Participates in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Translates business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders.
• Takes the lead in designs of individual stories and translates the design to subtasks.
• Considers aspects of information security while coding and reviewing other's code.
• Keeps up to date with technology and research latest trends in the industry.
• Actively shapes team vision and helps shape the team roadmap towards achieving it.
• Additions for service-delivering teams
• Raises and resolves operational concerns during design phases.
• Produces actionable user stories to relieve operational pain.
• Plans and performs more complex changes and manages stakeholder expectations.
• Seeks out the root cause of incidents and inspires improvements in a blameless fashion.
• Strives to replace service requests with self-service functionality and automation.
• Diligently collaborates with stakeholders to optimize their choice of service and service usage to minimize costs for derived products.
• Leads by example and becomes a subject matter expert in one or more product areas.
• Understands functional and technical requirements of software components.
• Actively provides feedback during code reviews.
• Onboards new members to the team and helps develop junior engineers.
• Participates in team hiring activities.
• Feeds larger refactoring opportunities into the team's backlog.
• Evolves the team’s continuous integration pipeline and fixes broken builds.
• Performs benchmark analyses, identifies hot spots, and derives appropriate measures to improve performance.
• Develops prototypes and proofs of principles for innovative features.
• Reflects on alignment of team vision with company vision.
• Has a deep understanding of their team’s problem domain.
• Clearly understands and communicates the impact of changes in the team’s deliverables on other teams and customers.
• Timely and proactively communicates impediments to commitments and helps others to overcome theirs.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree (STEM preferred) and minimum 11 to 13 years of experience in Devops or Site Reliability Engineering
• Exposure to Cloud Technologies and Cloud Delivery. Exposure to CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps, GitHub etc.
• Strong Analytical, Troubleshooting, interpersonal, and oral/written communication skills with ability to engage with stakeholders
• Nice to have development experience in any languages
• Experience with generative AI models and understanding of machine learning algorithms.
• Good scripting background, shell, PowerShell – must; Python (nice to have)
• Have worked on container technologies and microservice architecture like Kubernetes, Docker etc.