Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Are you passionate about clean code, modern architecture, and rapid value delivery? We're looking for engineers like you to join our growing team! Apptio portfolio is powered by dozens of microservices teams with "you build it you own it" culture. We are forming a new Developer Productivity team that will enable Apptio service teams to accelerate production deployment with confidence. The charter of the team is to create a reference implementation for deployment and testing pipelines and enable the service teams to maintain the DevOps culture without recreating the wheel.
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Apptio operates a cloud-based Kubernetes platform. Apptio products are built with a wide variety of technologies: AWS services, Golang, React, Python with deployment pipelines standardized on GitHub Actions and Argo. The new team is expected to take Apptio delivery to the next level and unlock one touch automated deployments across multiple dependent services, rapid cloud and region expansion and execution of DR.
What you will be doing:
Be an instrumental part of the new developer productivity team and collaborate with other engineering teams toward the mutual goal - rapid production deployments with confidence. Build, enhance and optimize production deployment pipelines and maintain established KPIs. Mentor junior engineers on your team and enable other engineering teams to use the deployment automation efficiently and according to best practices.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 5 years of experience delivering cloud software
- Proven ability to deliver to roadmap commitments in an agile environment
- Experience working with remote teams, both onshore and offshore
- Ability to drive large initiatives by collaborating across multiple teams
- Passion for working with internal customers (service owners), product management, and senior management to deliver value
- BS in Computer Science or a related field
- Hands-on experience in building and adapting large-scale CI/CD processes.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Openshift configuration (at the app/service level)
- Experience developing tools and platforms to accelerate and empower engineers.
- Expertise in one of the programming / scripting technologies (golang, bash, python)
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Terragrunt)
- Hands-on experience with Test automation
- Understanding of GitOps practices and expertise with CI/CD automation platforms such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollouts (config, API's, hooks, etc.)
- Strong understanding of DevOps best practices
- General Cloud Experience (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Database Management System (DBMS) experience a plus, Database migrations (liquibase), managing backups, etc.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience with various web application development technologies and tools, e.g., Golang NodeJS, REST, CSS, and Python.
- Great communication, both written and verbal, appropriately calibrated to the audience
- Experience engaging with senior leadership to report on and adjust deliverables