DevOps Engineer III

At ST Engineering iDirect, we're reshaping the future of global connectivity. As a leader in satellite communications, our groundbreaking technology empowers customers to grow, innovate, and transform their networks. Here, your skills and passion meet our vision and expertise to create something extraordinary. If you're ready to tackle technology's biggest challenges and redefine how the world connects, the most exciting chapter of your career awaits. With ST Engineering iDirect, the sky isn't the limit—it's just the beginning

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to increase productivity, site/platform reliability of operations, quality, scalability and security through small batch updates, automation, monitoring, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Continuous Flow). This role enables the engineering delivery teams to accomplish tasks such as infrastructure provisioning and build, bundle, test and deploy, in a self-service model, for both development and production environments. As a member of the engineering delivery team, DevOps team members strive to decrease time to market, time to revenue, increase feedback loop velocities, teach teams about quality, completeness and readiness.

• Use context driven technology solutions that enable deliver teams to predictably and repeatably deliver with confidence
• Enable and maintain a self-service infrastructure provisioning and build, bundle, test and deploy for production and development
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive environment within the engineering delivery team to increase productivity, site/platform reliability of operations, quality, scalability and security through small batch updates, automation, monitoring, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Continuous Flow)
• Members of the DevOps group are familiar with Software programming, how to write and build software Network architecture, how to build and manage software defined networks
• Infrastructure architecture, how to build and manage software defined infrastructure System Administration (networks, hardware, software systems)
• Information Security aware, sensitive and savvy Shell Scripting Databases, data structures, moving data RESTful APIs 
• Cloud (AWS)
• Configuration and Change Management, for traceability, audits, etc. (Chef, Bitbucket, Jira)
• Continuous Integration and Delivery (Jenkins)
• Test automation and test automation tools
• Monitoring applications and infrastructure
• Log management

• Bachelor's Degree in Systems, Electrical, Software Engineering, or other technical field. A graduate degree a plus
• 5+ years' experience in any or several of the following areas:
  • Software programming
  • Shell scripting
  • Network architecture
  • Infrastructure architecture
  • System administration
  • Information security
• Constantly interested in decreasing time to market, increasing quality, and looking for new/better ways to do things

Additional knowledge or depth of experience in the following areas a plus:

• • Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
  • Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure
  • Prior success in automating a real-world production environment
  • Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments
  • Understanding and experience with code deployment (tagging)
  • Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments
  • Familiarity with AWS
  • Strong scripting skills, i.e., Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.
  • Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling
  • Familiarity with any monitoring tools like Nagios, Incinga, SiteScope, etc.
  • Experience with revision control source code repositories (Git, SVN, Mercurial, Perforce)
  • Management of continuous integration servers like Jenkins, Bamboo and TeamCity
  • Experience with automated testing tools (ie. Selenium, JMeter)
  • Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA and REST)