Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.

Position Overview

As a lead platform engineer, you will be responsible for improving software product delivery in the areas of provisioning, monitoring, securing, deploying, scaling, maintaining, and system hardening. A typical day in this role involves supporting the project and product teams, and collaborating with the software development, architecture, and infrastructure teams to derive best practices for continuous improvement in the areas of CI/CD. This role involves an individual to be hands-on to build, set up, monitor and maintain running systems remotely and at client sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish idempotent CI/CD pipelines to automate configuring, provisioning, packaging, testing, and deployment of FORTNA software.
• Configure and deploy GUI front-end/reporting visualizations of builds, deployments, tests, telemetry, alerting, errors/logs, and health status.
• Draft and maintain detailed, up-to-date technical documentation and user guides for SDLC tool chain.
• Participate in the troubleshooting of performance and stability issues and recommend solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Apply proper architecture and best-practice guidelines to achieve “as a service” DevOps capabilities for the multi-cloud platforms.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
• Strong experience in Linux/UNIX administration, configuration, networking, infrastructure, and security.
• General understanding of automated configuration management using Ansible / Terraform.
• Prior experience establishing observability platforms including Prometheus, Istio, Grafana, et al is required.
• Strong experience with at least one major scripting language (Bash, Groovy, Python).
• Proficient with troubleshooting system issues related to hardware, custom software, and packaged middleware.
• Experience creating and maintaining detailed, up-to-date technical documentation.
• Strong communication in both verbal and written forms.
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes (K8s, K3s) and Rancher toolset (Helm chart, Fleet), and/or docker swarm.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps/SRE with elastic infrastructure or cloud environment.
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Github, Gitlab etc.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $97,800 to $146,700 . This base salary range represents the low and high end of the base salary range for this position. Actual base salary offered will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and performance.

This job description describes the general nature and level of work expected of a person assigned to this position. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor.

It is the policy of FORTNA and its affiliated companies to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, citizenship status (if authorized to work in the U.S.), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, FORTNA will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.