Principal DevOps Engineer II

Spectrum's Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation's fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. The diversity of experience available within Spectrum's Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience
TO BE COMPLETED AFTER INTAKE: Spectrum's Data Services department manages data throughout the organization. Teams within this department work on a series of platforms spanning Spectrum to achieve various business goals.
BE PART OF THE CONNECTION
As a Principal DevOps Engineer II, you'll be responsible for guiding and facilitating a self-service deployment platform, including troubleshooting of system and data issues for both lower and production environments. You will navigate internal and external systems, working with other influencers to deliver on our vision and serve as the first line of contact for intricately complex production issues.
WHAT OUR PRINCIPAL DEVOPS ENGINEERS ENJOY MOST

• Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Guide developers and testers to create software deployment plans.
• Integrate project variables across multiple systems in order to build tools for automated deployments.
• Facilitate connection points among leadership, technical teams and functional peers to ensure successful upgrades and fixes to the production environment.
• Implement and maintain security standards.
• Guide developers and infrastructure teams to install or upgrade third party software.
• Expert for system performance and reliability, solving design problems across areas and leveraging unique knowledge, skillsets and experience.
• Drive positive change and enhanced performance via gap analysis, identifying the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications.
• Leverage analysis to develop new solutions, mitigates opposing opinions and advises project teams.
• Understand and mitigate the varied impacts of business/industry changes, leading others to clarity.
• Guide less experienced engineers.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO SPECTRUM
Required Qualifications

• Experience:
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python)
  • 6+ years of cloud-based DevOps engineering experience
  • 6+ years of source control tool experience (GitLab, GitHub, etc.)
  • 3+ years of cloud infrastructure management and architecture experience
  • 3+ years of experience with Helm and other Kubernetes management tools
• Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Technical Skills:
  • Extensive understanding of software source control tools such as GitLab.
  • Extensive understanding of container management software such as Kubernetes.
• Skills:
  • Extensive experience with facilitating and building team consensus when interacting with both the leadership and the implementation teams
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Abilities:
  • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
  • Ability to write clear technical documentation for use by developers and testers
  • Ability to work under limited direction and handle multiple assignments simultaneously
  • Ability to identify issues of an intricately complex nature and effectively resolve
  • Demonstrated in-depth analytical and troubleshooting abilities
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
  • Strong understanding of observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, ELK Stack, Datadog, or Splunk)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or ArgoCD
  • In-depth experience managing AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud environments
  • Knowledge of networking concepts, firewalls, and cloud security best practices
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash scripting for automation and system management
  • Experience optimizing Kubernetes clusters and using Helm charts for scalable application deployments
  • Experience with incident response and SRE best practices, including post-mortems and blameless retrospectives
• Travel Ability:
  • Office Environment
• Schedule:
  • Full time
  • This position is eligible to work in a hybrid work model (combination of in-office and remote days)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree

SPECTRUM CONNECTS YOU TO MORE

• Innovative Tools & Tech: Work with high-performing software and applications on the forefront of the digital telecommunications industry.
• Dynamic Growth: The growth of our industry and evolving technology will power your career as you move up or around the company.
• Supportive Teams: Who you are matters here. And, we aim to foster an inclusive workplace where every person is empowered to bring their best ideas.
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This job posting will remain open until 2025-03-11 06:00 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$124,000.00 and $220,000.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
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