About the job

Title: Lead IT Engineer - DevOps

Position: Full-time, Hybrid

Location: Cleveland, Ohio - Relocation available, sponsorship not available

Are you an experienced Lead IT Engineer with a passion for DevOps and a desire to take your skills to the next level?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Lead IT Engineer to manage the automation, configuration management and provision of stable platforms for delivery of quality. In this role, you will be responsible for the architecture and technical leadership of the entire DevOps infrastructure, as well as the management and development of continuous integration and deployment solutions for various applications/platforms. Additionally, you will conduct training internally and to the development teams on building processes, troubleshoot issues in development systems, and supervise developers for building the DevOps pipelines for their respective project. To ensure success, the ideal candidate should demonstrate extensive experience in DevOps engineering and managing developers.

If you are a highly motivated individual with excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills, we want to hear from you!

About the company

Our client is a global leader that has been in the industry for over 150 years and has built a reputation for excellence.

The company culture is one of collaboration, inclusivity and continuous improvement, and they are dedicated to creating a supportive and rewarding work environment for their employees.

Essential Functions

Strategy & Planning

• Maintains current knowledge of industry trends and standards around Azure API management and security.
• Develops, configures, operates and evolves the API Management platform Azure APIM
• Application and platform support for Oracle Integration cloud, Boomi, Azure APIM.
• Supports legacy applications of SOA, EDI as needed.
• Works with test engineering team in setting up the dev ops pipeline for automation testing.
• Works with application security team to incorporate security into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Mentors’ members of the IT team and be an education resource for development teams.
• Collaborates across teams to add new capabilities on our platform to support developers and business.
• Develops, evolves and maintains security infrastructure for service integration components.
• Works with application security to ensure the appropriate patterns and standards are being maintained.
• Conducts research into new technologies, including components, tools, frameworks and vendor products.
• Establishes, documents and promotes team standards with regards to research, documentation, business processes and application testing and support.
• Recommends improvements for the global support process and ancillary processes. Provides recommendations to address and resolve business issues.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Plans and organizes tasks, reports progress and coordinates with consultants for implementations.
• Develops processes, guidelines, and framework for rapid development and deployment of services.
• Mitigates significant risks associated with large projects, which require new processes and/or involve significant changes to existing processes.
• Plans, coordinates, and implements security measures to safeguard information against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.
• Provides production technical support for current integrations and resolve service requests in collaboration with various Sherwin IT application teams or third-party vendor integrations.
• Effectively evaluates production and non-production issues and presents options for remediation.
• Provides training and documentation for supported integrations when requested.
• Manages enhancements and support activities, plan and organize tasks and report progress.

Operational Management

• Develops and maintains an understanding of key processes, schedules, cycles, profiles, etc. for the technical systems supported by the platform ops team and in use by the business.
• Develops solutions to leverage various Enterprise applications functionality for Integration’s area and suggest process improvements.
• Proactively mentors the Team members in following processes, best practices, troubleshooting and testing tools.
• Coordinates work efforts with the Integrations development and middleware teams for application change controls and system performance issues.
• Provides guidelines on operational processes to ensure projects and RTB activities are held to appropriate frameworks.
• Provides regular, clear, and consistent communication (written and oral) on the status of platforms, issues, and deliverables to representatives from the customer/vendor.
• Partners with vendor technical support to facilitate analysis of and resolution to technical issues for customers.

Incidental Functions

• Provides training and documentation for supported applications.
• Researches or prototypes new tools and/or technologies.
• Provides software expertise as a project resource.
• Attends management meetings on behalf of team, prepare and lead presentations as requested.
• Participates in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.
• Up to 25% travel as required (domestic and international).
• Works outside the standard office 7.5-hour workday as required.

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.

Knowledge & Experience

• 8+ years IT experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps (preferred Azure DevOps)
• 2+ years of experience with any Enterprise middleware (IBM, Oracle, etc.) or iPaaS platform.
• 2+ years of programming experience.
• 1+ years of experience with IaaS & PaaS cloud platforms.
• Understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, Cloud, and automation.
• Understanding of automation and deployment tools (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, etc.)
• Strong hands-on DevOps pipeline development.
• Hands on experience with Azure APIM.
• Experience documenting standards, policies, and installation guides.
• Experience in building middleware integrations using Ipaas platforms is a plus.
• Knowledge of Microservices Architecture
• Understanding of Containerization\Orchestration- Docker (Build/Ship/Run)
• Knowledge of Restful API Design principles
• Knowledge of SOA principles, design patterns, and application integration architectures is a plus.
• Experience supervising technical resources in Enterprise Integrations.
• Experience evaluating and implementing new technologies.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Experience in scripting languages: Terraform, Groovy
• Support development, operational applications and tools including (but not limited to): Github, Jenkins, Jfrog artifactory, elastic search, Kubernetes, Rancher.
• Experience working with at least one integration platform of Oracle SOA Suite (SOA/OSB/BPM)/ Dell Boomi/ Oracle Integration Cloud or similar technologies.
• Experience in ERP systems (Oracle or SAP) is a plus.

Personal Attributes

• Strong written and oral communications skills.
• Proven ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly.
• Advanced systems/process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, organization skills and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Ability to quickly pick up new tools and technologies.
• Willingness and ability to train and teach others.
• Ability to facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to effectively move forward on tasks even with ambiguous or changing requirements.
• Ability to lead and take charge of the new initiatives.
• Ability to work effectively in a globally focused multi-cultural environment, and to lead and influence cross-organizationally with and without direct authority.
• Strong commitment to inclusion and diversity.

Salary

• $90,000 - $129,000 per year, based on qualifications and experiences.

INTERESTED BUT NOT SURE?

We know the confidence gap can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you! For any follow up questions email your Recruiter LUKE HOUGHTON directly at luke@emeraldresourcegroup.com or call at 614-507-0604.

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