Job Objective

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for supporting and enhancing the engineering infrastructure, managing secure engineering operations, and maintaining internal development tools and software. This role includes automating engineering workflows, maintaining cloud-based infrastructure, and contributing to product development efforts. The DevOps Engineer will work closely with Development, QA, and IT teams to streamline and secure all aspects of the CI/CD pipeline while advancing cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence across the engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD workflows and automation frameworks to support secure software delivery across on-premise and public cloud-hosted engineering environments and applications in alignment with IT and security access policies.
• Champion and help implement established CI/CD, release automation and build security best practices across engineering teams, partnering with IT, security and architecture teams to align with enterprise standards
• Continuously improve deployment speed, release reliability and services operations through automation, pipeline quality improvements and observability capabilities
• Be a key contributor in developing and maintaining all aspects of public cloud infrastructure solutions, including automated virtual machine deployment and ongoing support for team's infrastructure needs
• Continuously monitor and improve build systems for performance, security, scalability, and automation
• Work closely with Engineering, QA and IT to troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues in development, QA, staging, and production environments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles, with hands-on experience building pipelines/actions within GitHub and/or ADO eco-system
• At least 7 years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or a similar role
• Experience in supporting container-based solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure PAAS and SAAS services, including computer, networking, storage, containers and identify management
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly using tools like Terraform, Bicep, ARM
• Knowledge of public and private cloud infrastructure security best practices
• Proficiency in PowerShell or like scripting languages for automation and system management
• Experience working within Lean and Agile development environments

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Location

This position offers remote work flexibility, with a preference for candidates located in the Rochester, NY area to enable increased in-person and onsite collaboration as business needs evolve.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here represent those necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. This is primarily an office-based role requiring extended periods of sitting and frequent use of hands for typing, writing, and operating standard office equipment. The position requires effective verbal and written communication. Occasional standing, walking, bending, reaching, or lifting of office supplies or small equipment may be necessary. Visual acuity for reading, writing, and computer work is necessary. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time exempt position. Some flexibility in hours is allowed, but the employee must be available during the "core" work hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Additional hours including evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.