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Form of workWe’re Hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer!
If you are excited and passionate about helping #LetsSolveWater, consider joining our team today! Xylem, Inc. is a leading global water technology company servicing more than 150 countries and is dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues. We are looking for individuals to join our mission by exceeding customer expectations through smart sustainable solutions. At Xylem, you will have the opportunity to solve water by participating in our paid Volunteer Program, Xylem Watermark!
The Role: Xylem seeks to hire an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with interests in creating automation for multiple development teams to assist with deployment of infrastructure to public cloud environments and developing pipelines for the deployment of applications. Responsible for support, and maintenance of operational software, development of automation scripts, development and maintenance of operational pipelines, and physical support of the servers and infrastructure in our Data Centers. As a member of the Global DevOps Engineering team, you will have opportunities to continue the push towards Infrastructure as Code and utilize a wide range of common tools to support environments through automation including Terraform and other commonly used tools in the industry. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to succeed in a fast paced, fluid environment, supporting multiple teams while ensuring initiatives are met. If you are excited and passionate about working on state-of-the art technology trends, we want to hear from you!
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Using approved tools and processes, create Infrastructure as Code scripts to deploy environments in AWS that can be reused by peer team members and teams
- Using standard tools and processes, create and utilize pipelines to deploy software applications across multiple environments including lower level, QA, staging and production environments.
- Work closely with security operations to maintain proper security posture for supported environments and applications including the implementation of automated security testing
- Setup, configure and maintain high availability (HA) and elasticity requirements in the public cloud when required by applications
- Develop and maintain robust logging systems
- Support and work with software engineers
- Following team standards, provide guidance to peer teams on best practices to deploy infrastructure and applications using IaC and pipelines
- Implement monitoring and logging standards for infrastructure and applications
- Participate in an on-call rotation for the Global DevOps team
- Setup, configure and maintain disaster recovery requirements including scheduled DR drills
Minimum Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (or similar), or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
- 4+ years’ experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure deployment tools
- 4+ years’ experience with AWS and/or Azure is required. Experience with both is preferred
- 4+ years’ experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery tools including builds and deployments (examples include Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab, Bitbucket Actions)
- 4+ years’ experience with Git or similar source control tools
- Experience supporting production workloads in a Linux environment including troubleshooting production issues and shell scripting
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket Pipelines
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or similar technologies in a production environment is required
- Expert-level knowledge and experience writing automation scripts for large-scale environments (Ansible, Bash, Python).
- Experience with NGINX, Apache, or similar is preferred
- Experience working on a DevOps Engineering team that interacts with and enables multiple teams
- Experience with monitoring tools Datadog, Nagios, or a similar tool
- Experience with TCP/IP and other networking protocols as well as cloud based networking
- Understanding of agile software development methodologies
- Ability and desire to learn new skills quickly
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience using common Microsoft Office tools to review, create and update documentation, reports, and diagrams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with both AWS and Azure is preferred
- AWS Architect certification or Azure equivalent is preferred
- Experience with ArgoCD and Helm is preferred
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Ruby, PERL or a similar language is preferred
- Experience with Ansible or similar configuration tool is preferred
- Experience with relational databases including writing and executing SQL queries is preferred
SALARY: The estimated salary range for this position is $120,000 to $140,000. Starting pay is dependent on multiple factors, such as skills, experience and work location, and is not typically at the top of the range. At Xylem we offer a competitive compensation package with a generous benefit package, including Medical, Dental, Vision plans, 401(k) with company contribution, paid time off, paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement.
At Xylem, we embrace diversity and strive to create avenues where employees feel valued and appreciated through our DE&I initiatives and Employee Resources Groups (ERG). Xylem is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action workplace. Xylem prohibits discrimination, harassment of any kind and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or sexual orientation (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, marital status, medical conditions or disability, genetic information, age, or other non-merit factors.
Join the global Xylem team today! Xylem is a team creating advanced technology solutions to the world’s water challenges through developing new technologies and services that will improve the way water is used, conserved, and re-used in the future is central to our work. Our products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor, and return water to the environment, in public utility, industrial, residential, and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities.
Disclaimer: The information listed within this job description is designed to indicate the general nature of work expected for this position and shall not be viewed as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required in this position. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job absent undue hardship. Xylem reserves the right to modify this job description or assign other duties to this position as needed.
