DevOps III, FME Flow

About the role

Safe Software is looking for a DevOps III to join our FME Flow DevOps team. In this role, you'll help manage our CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud infrastructure. You'll identify inefficiencies in our existing systems and make changes that streamline workflows and reduce cloud costs. Your work will remove friction for our development teams so they can build and test FME Flow as efficiently and securely as possible. As our FME Flow development team grows, the systems you build will need to scale with it. We have an immediate opening and are excited to find the right candidate to join our team.

ABOUT THE TEAM

As a part of the FME Flow DevOps team, youʼll join a group of talented DevOps Engineers who maintain the tools and infrastructure behind the platform used by our FME Flow developers on a daily basis. The team collaborates closely with the developers to understand what is needed to build FME Flow with great velocity. The FME Flow DevOps team is responsible for the cloud infrastructure and automations used by the FME Flow Dev teams. This team enables our developers to build FME Flow with speed while maintaining a high bar in quality.

WHAT YOUʼLL BE DOING

As a DevOps III at Safe Software, you will be contributing to the maintenance of infrastructure and pipelines that enable the development, testing, and delivery of our Cloud applications. This includes, but not limited to…

- Analyzing and Improving CI/CD Pipelines. Our CI/CD pipelines are very important for our developers, so we want to continuously improve our pipelines to provide faster feedback.

- Scripting and Automations. As engineers, we pride ourselves on speed and efficiency. We need to make sure our pipelines are automated with scripts to allow repetition.

- Monitoring and Updating Infrastructure. Using “infrastructure as code” principles, we continuously monitor and improve our infrastructure that supports our applications.

- Cloud Optimization. On the DevOps team, we take pride in being able to explore and incorporate new industry technologies into our processes. We strive to ensure that our AWS usage costs do not grow unnecessarily, using monitoring to make cost-saving enhancements to our systems.

DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Fixing defects or adding new capabilities to our Cloud infrastructure

- Developing and maintaining software tools that aid our development teams.

- Practicing Kanban style Agile Development with Jira

- Researching and Learning new tools and technologies

- Reviewing and updating automation pipelines via Jenkins or GitHub Actions

- Participate in team meetings to provide updates and report newly-identified issues

- Finding, analyzing, and remediating infrastructure related security issues

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES

Safers come from a variety of backgrounds with a diversity in skills and knowledge. That said, we find that those who are most successful in this role have experience with the following areas.