DevOps Software Platform Engineer

As a DevOps Software Platform Engineer focusing on the DevOps platform tools, you will be a crucial part of First Horizon's DevOps engineering team, building a world class developer experience. Your primary goal will be to collaboratively support and improve the DevOps platform.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage Engineering background and skills to transition to a DevOps Platform Engineer
  • Apply experience to understand design concepts and implement features within the DevOps platform.
  • Build, test and deploy changes to a common toolchain framework.
  • Understands Semantic versioning and release management.
• Complete understanding of Software Development Lifecycle
  • Experience with breaking down software components into features, hotfixes and bugfixes.
  • Extensive understanding of Git branching methodologies and the impact within the SDLC
• Support existing DevOps platform by:
  • Troubleshooting issues end-to-end (pipeline, source, build, package, ext. dependencies, deploy and runtime)
  • Support the full product lifecycle ensuring highly scalable and reliable service.
  • Unit and integration testing of new and proposed changes
  • Identifying deficiencies and applying solutions to an entire platform through DevOps principles and framework
  • Utilizes monitoring and observability to both troubleshoot and provide feedback into SDLC.
  • Understand and promote developer and application Security best practices.
  • Participate in on-call to support the DevOps platform.
  • Author support documentation, user guides for internal developers.
• Work closely with DevOps Architects and Leads to understand DevOps requirements and align with product and technology vision.
• Continuously explore and stay current on new and emerging technologies.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience as a DevOps or Systems Engineer or a bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience.
• Kubernetes - 
  • helm and Kustomize
  • CRDs, services, operators
  • Familiarity with Rancher management server is a plus.
• Docker containers -
  • dockerfile
  • docker build, kaniko
  • docker registry
• Source code management -
  • Bitbucket (git)
  • Github
  • Git branching
  • Code reviews and pull request approvals.
• Build tools -
  • gradle and maven
  • kaniko
  • familiarity with msbuild and dotnet is a plus.
  • Packages -all types of mvn, node packages
  • yum/dnf
  • familiarity with nuget and chocolatey is a plus.
• Scripting Languages -
  • bash
  • python 
  • YAML
  • Familiarity with PowerShell is a plus.
• Programming Languages -
  • Java
  • Go language
  • Groovy
  • YAML
  • Ansible
  • HCL - Terraform
  • Familiarity with C# is a plus.
• Databases/Caches:
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
• Front End Technologies
  • React JS
  • Solid JS
  • nginx (reverse proxies)
• Frameworks
  • JavaScript frameworks - NodeJS, React, Solid, Angular
  • Java Spring and Spring Boot
  • Familiarity with .NETcore or Django is a plus
• Productivity Tools
  • Jira Software (scrum/Kanban Boards) or a similar ticketing system
  • Confluence or a similar wiki tool

• Follow change control methodologies.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with employees at all skill levels; including the ability to translate and communicate technical and analytical issues to all types of end users.