DevOps Engineer III

At PDI Technologies, we empower some of the world's leading convenience retail and petroleum brands with cutting-edge technology solutions that drive growth and operational efficiency.

By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make more informed decisions, and engage faster with customers through loyalty programs, shopper insights, and unmatched real-time market intelligence via mobile applications, such as GasBuddy.  We’re a global team committed to excellence, collaboration, and driving real impact. Explore our opportunities and become part of a company that values diversity, integrity, and growth.

Role Overview

If you love to design scalable fault-tolerant systems that can run efficiently with high performance and are eager to learn new technologies and develop new skills, then we have a great opportunity for you: join our PDI family and work closely with other talented PDI engineers to deliver solutions that delight our customers every day! As a DevOps Engineer III, you will design, develop & maintain E2E automated provisioning & deployment systems for PDI solutions. You will also partner with your engineering team to ensure these automation pipelines are integrated into our standard PDI CI/CD system. You will also partner with the Solution Automation team collaborating to bring test automation to the deployment automation pipeline. With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments, including PowerShell scripting & bash, database administration as well as bare metal virtualization technologies and public cloud environments in AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote and evangelize Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) design thinking everyday
• Designing, building, and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS services. Implementing infrastructure-as-code practices with tools like Terraform or Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration of resources.
• Working with container technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Managing and scaling containerized applications using AWS services like Amazon ECR, AWS Fargate.
• Employing IaC tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation to define and deploy infrastructure resources in a declarative and version-controlled manner. Automating the creation and configuration of AWS resources using infrastructure templates.
• Implementing monitoring and logging solutions using Grafana or ELK Stack to gain visibility into system performance, resource utilization, and application logs. Configuring alarms and alerts to proactively detect and respond to issues.
• Implementing strategies for disaster recovery and high availability using AWS services like AWS Backup, AWS Disaster Recovery, or multi-region deployments.  

Qualifications

• 7-9 years’ experience in DevOps role
• 1+ years leading DevOps initiatives
• AWS Services: In-depth understanding and hands-on experience with various AWS services, including but not limited to:
• o Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, ELB
• o Networking: VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, TransitGateway, DirectConnect
• o Storage: S3, EBS, EFS
• o Database: RDS, MSSQL
• o Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• o Security: IAM, Security Groups, KMS, WAF
• Familiar with some cross-platform provisioning technologies and IaC tools: Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with container technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Ability to build and manage containerized applications and deploy them to production environments.
• Familiar with containerization (Docker), cloud orchestration (Kubernetes or Swarm) 

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with some cross-platform provisioning technologies and IaC tools: Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with container technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Ability to build and manage containerized applications and deploy them to production environments.
• Familiar with containerization (Docker), cloud orchestration (Kubernetes or Swarm)
• Working experience in Windows and Linux systems, CLI and scripting
• Familiar with build automation in Windows and Linux and familiar with the various build tools (MSBuild, Make), package managers (NuGet, NPM, Maven) and artifact repositories (Artifactory, Nexus)
• Familiarity with version control system: Git, Azure DevOps. Knowledge of branching strategies, merging, and resolving conflicts. 

Behavioral Competencies:

• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Communicates Effectively
• Balances Stakeholders
• Collaborates Effectively

PDI is committed to offering a well-rounded benefits program, designed to support and care for you, and your family throughout your life and career. This includes a competitive salary, market-competitive benefits, and a quarterly perks program. We encourage a good work-life balance with ample time off [time away] and, where appropriate, hybrid working arrangements. Employees have access to continuous learning, professional certifications, and leadership development opportunities. Our global culture fosters diversity, inclusion, and values authenticity, trust, curiosity, and diversity of thought, ensuring a supportive environment for all.