What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at Koch?
The Koch Technology team is hiring a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between development and operations teams, ensuring efficient and reliable processes. You will leverage your technical expertise to build, maintain, and enhance our CI/CD pipelines, automate processes, and manage our cloud infrastructure. Your goal will be to foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, enabling us to deliver high-quality solutions rapidly and securely.
You will be positioned within a highly collaborative and skilled team where you will partner across all Employee Services Product teams to enable optimizations, automations, and foundational development pipelines. The Employee Services product teams include key enterprise services related to Identity Access Management, Collaboration Technology, End Point, and our Service Desk.
The ideal candidate has a background in IT development, a passion for solving complex problems and a knack for learning new things.
Our Team
The Koch Technology DevOps team focuses on collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement using modern technology to deliver reliable and scalable services to our aligned products and across the Koch Enterprise.
This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship
What You Will Do
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab to ensure seamless code integration and delivery.
- Infrastructure as Code: Develop and manage infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform.
- Monitoring & Logging: Set up and manage monitoring and logging solutions to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Automation: Automate repetitive tasks to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
- Security Practices: Implement security best practices and policies throughout the development and deployment processes.
- Collaboration: Work closely with architects, product owners, and operations teams to ensure smooth, automated deployments and faster feedback loops.
- Cloud Management: Manage and optimize cloud infrastructures, preferably AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Participate in Scrum ceremonies.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience in a DevOps, Software Engineering or Automation related role.
- Strong ability in a scripting languages (e.g., Python).
What Will Put You Ahead
Working within an Agile development environment is preferred. Familiarity with automation tools, pipeline tools, and cloud platforms like AWS. Containerization: Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration. Relevant certifications. Proficiency in version control systems such as Git. Data analysis experience.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .
Who We Are
Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).
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