DevOps Engineer Intermediate

Location:

Work from home (Pennsylvania)

Shift:

Days (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Regular

Exemption Status:

Yes

Job Summary:

Responsible for assisting Information Technology staff in the installation, maintenance, implementation, and continuous usage of development tools, frameworks, and platforms. Provides and promotes a technical environment which will maximize the productivity of IT personnel while minimizing cost and organizational impact.

Job Duties:

• Evaluates, recommends, and implements new system software products, product updates, and new releases.
• Maintains an inventory of products, current release level, and all updates or local modifications.
• Informs appropriate personnel of new features, limitations, and considerations produced by upgrades or new products.
• Assists in diagnosing system problems, and effecting recovery and restart.
• Provides documentation on general system operating procedures.
• Provides education and counsel to users and IT personnel on the use and understanding of systems software.
• Serves as a liaison to vendor software support personnel as needed by IT personnel.
• Determines, implements, and facilitates programs and procedures to analyze resource utilization and support planning activities.
• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and policies to work as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Improve automation and increase systems' self-healing capability
• Collect operating metrics and report performance to stakeholders
• Measure and optimize system performance
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Work is typically performed in an office or remote environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

*Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and degree obtained (Associate’s Degree = 2 years; Bachelor’s Degree = 4 years).

Position Details:

Required Skills:

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Proficient with CI/CD Concepts and Tools
• Working knowledge of Powershell Scripting
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Working knowledge of Web Application Servers
• Problem-solving attitude
• Experience with Azure DevOps platform a plus
• Performance and Load Testing as well as Site Reliability Engineering

Education:

High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Required)

Experience:

Minimum of 8 years-Relevant experience* (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s):

Valid Driver's License - Default Issuing Body

Skills:

Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Teamwork

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family. 

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.