Senior DevOps Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

$103,500 - $170,800/Yr

BD - Milpitas, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Milpitas, CA

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

BD Biosciences is seeking a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer with team leadership and solid DevOps implementation experience to join our exciting and growing team. At BD Biosciences, you will have the opportunity to create software applications that are used to help all people live healthy lives. Our software portfolio powers industry-leading, groundbreaking medical instruments. The Senior DevOps Platform Engineer plays a key role in understanding our developers' challenges and defining innovative solutions to solve them. Do you want to join a DevOps team that is transforming the way software engineering is done? Do you have experience in delivering high-quality code and deploying it seamlessly? Do you want to learn and apply the latest technologies in platform engineering? If you answered yes to these questions, then you are the associate we are looking for. You are not just a hard worker; you are a smart worker. You are always looking for ways to improve your skills and processes. You can inspire and influence others with your empathy, passion, and expertise. As Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you will work very closely and integrated with our developers to adopt and drive culture change. Together with a team of engineers, you will design, architect, and deliver the next-generation internal developer platform. You will work with peer technical leaders and their teams to enable engineers to seamlessly deploy their software components using GitOps. Your focus will be on continuously improving the DevOps tooling, software installers, and software delivery processes. You will own and maintain highly reliable environments and toolchains with clear communication and timeliness of any disruptions to internal stakeholders. Leveraging industry-standard techniques and processes, you will help enable and provide better feedback to the developers. You will monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environments infrastructure, investigating and fixing stability, performance, and scalability bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

• Work closely and integrated with developers to adopt and drive culture change.
• Design, architect, and deliver the next-generation internal developer platform.
• Enable engineers to seamlessly deploy their software components using GitOps.
• Continuously improve the DevOps tooling, software installers, and software delivery processes.
• Own and maintain highly reliable environments and toolchains with clear communication and timeliness of any disruptions to internal stakeholders.
• Leverage industry-standard techniques and processes to provide better feedback to developers.
• Monitor and continually improve the capacity of production environments infrastructure.
• Investigate and fix stability, performance, and scalability bottlenecks.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, IT, software engineering, or similar.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software Engineering roles as DevOps Platform engineer.
• Expert in maintaining and managing software build infrastructure (Azure DevOps preferable, Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamForge, etc.).
• Expert in container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Expert in IaC technologies such as Helm, Packer, and Terraform.
• Expert experience creating, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Expert experience in version control and source control management (Git).
• Expert in deploying, managing, and maintaining at least 2 of the following SCM toolchain such as Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Nexus, TFS, Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of programming principles, structure, and Versioning.
• Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience with system management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or Chef.
• Experience and knowledge of Microsoft and/or Linux system administration and networking.
• Experience in managing a VMware-based virtualization environment or similar.
• Knowledge of test-driven development, software configuration management, and automated testing.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience operating in a highly regulated industry.
• Experience in managing CI/CD pipelines for a mixed set of software assets.
• Experience with Crossplane, Kubernetes CRDs.
• Experience in creating VM templates and deploying them at scale and tracking revisions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range from $103,500.00 to $170,800.00 USD annually.
• Opportunities for professional development and learning.
• Support for work-life balance and employee well-being.