About the Team:
UKG is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to build and maintain our public/private cloud's PaaS layer (Platform as a Service). This is a specialized team that abstracts the complexities of Infrastructure, Networking, and Security requirements to ensure they are consumed in standardized ways for supporting Applications. These services are built in Linux leveraging various technologies including Go, Ansible, Concourse, K8s, GKE, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Openstack, to name a few. This position will partner with our Agile development teams to assure smooth integration and deployment of UKG software across the entire cloud infrastructure.
About the Role:
• Manage, improve, and maintain our tools and services stack across the organization and deliver value incrementally
• Build mature applications and services to enable Product Development teams through in-house self-service portal
• Collaborate with Development and Engineering teams to understand gaps and requirements while meeting expectations
• Join team meetings daily and as needed and collaborate with peers and teams within the organization
• Troubleshoot issues by reviewing information at hand, developing detailed implementation plan with automation and test details, and mentoring team members
• Lead and guide engineers with implementations
• Understand cross functional impact and high-level topology across services
• Ensure development aligns with UKG guidelines and industry's best practices
• Communicate with and mentor teams on best practices and guidelines regarding the best use of our tooling and services
• Writing technical specifications and documentation
• Participate in a rotational on-call schedule with the team
About You:
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, however equivalent work experience in similar position may be substituted for educational requirements.
• 10+ years of experience building and/or configuring cloud infrastructure and services on-prem or public (GCP preferred) through code
• 10+ years of experience with at least one programming language. (e.g. Java, Golang, Ruby, Python)
• 10+ years of experience managing Linux based platforms
• 10+ years of experience with Cloud Native solutions (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure).
• 10+ years of experience with DevOps practices and toolsets, such as Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Vault, CI/CD delivery models
• Experience working with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong scripting experience in at least two of the following: Perl, Bash, Python, PowerShell
• Windows and Linux OS and Networking experience (TCP/IP, Firewalls, SSL, Load Balancing, WAFs, SMTP, DNS, etc)
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining highly available services at scale
• Experience with Infrastructure test automation
• Experience with web technologies utilizing Microservices, SOA patterns and REST
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles
The pay range for this position is $145,600 to $209,000. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG's benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits
