Staff Software Engineer I (Devops, Site Reliability Engineering)

Overview:

• Leading AI-driven Global Supply Chain Solutions Software Product Company and one of Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work”
• Seeking an astute individual that has a strong technical foundation with the additional ability to be hands-on with the broader engineering team as part of the development/deployment cycle, and deep knowledge of industry best practices, Devops and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience with the ability to implement them working with both the platform, and the product teams.

Scope:

• Core responsibilities to include Architecting/planning sprints/designing/implementing (along with counterparts and distinguished Architects) running rollouts for a ground up Azure SaaS solution, in Devops mode.
• The team currently comprises of 20+ global associates across US, India (COE) and UK 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 10 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, interpersonal, and oral/written communication skills with ability to engage with stakeholders
• Nice to have development experience in any languages
• Good scripting background, shell, PowerShell – must; Python (nice to have)
• Good understanding about DevOps technologies.
• Have worked on container technologies and microservice architecture like Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Understanding and hand-son experience with third-party monitoring, and logging services
  Eager to learn newer technologies

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

Diversity, Inclusion, Value & Equality (DIVE) is our strategy for fostering an inclusive environment we can be proud of. Check out Blue Yonder's inaugural Diversity Report which outlines our commitment to change, and our video celebrating the differences in all of us in the words of some of our associates from around the world.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.