Sr Eng, DevOps (Oracle DBA)

Spire - Birmingham, AL

Full-time - Senior

Birmingham, AL

Utilities

About the position

Spire is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in Spire's evolution in the DevOps journey. This role will be primarily responsible for playing a specialized technical role to enhance, mature, and support a wide range of applications that enable Spire's critical business processes. The Senior DevOps Engineer will understand and support critical applications in the Enterprise landscape, including but not limited to Oracle EBS, Customer Care & Billing, Maximo, Powerplan, Hyperion, Endur, and Click. This position will lead and oversee migration standards within the shared services group, partnering with Architects to execute on the vision. The engineer will also lead the team in release management and application migrations within their specialized area, ensuring built-in quality by collaborating with Quality Assurance on unit and developer testing. In addition to these responsibilities, the Senior DevOps Engineer will monitor performance issues, identify and execute long-term solutions, and respond to triage production issues related to integrations or scheduling operations, adhering to the Service Level Agreements set forth. The engineer will be fully embedded in the development team, participating in all ceremonies and planning, focusing on clear, precise, and testable acceptance criteria. They will accept work into the team backlog and own the commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each Program Increment (PI). Furthermore, the engineer will be accountable for the development and updating of technical documentation, effectively collaborating within their specific team and across agile teams to ensure alignment in dependencies and the impact of each team's work on others. The role also involves optimizing, enhancing, and supporting cybersecurity protocols related to the shared service application suite, as well as being accountable for application health and version control across all non-production environments. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a servant leader mindset, possess strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills, and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. They should believe in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the Agile Release Train (ART).

Responsibilities

• Understand and support critical applications in the Enterprise landscape, including Oracle EBS, Customer Care & Billing, Maximo, Powerplan, Hyperion, Endur, and Click.
• Lead and oversee migration standards within the shared services group, partnering with Architects to execute on vision.
• Lead team in release management and application migrations within specialized area.
• Oversee and influence built-in quality, partnering with Quality Assurance for unit/developer testing.
• Monitor performance issues, identifying and executing on long-term solutions.
• Respond to triage production issues related to integrations or scheduling operations, following Service Level Agreements.
• Participate fully in the development team, engaging in all ceremonies and planning with a focus on clear acceptance criteria.
• Accept work into the team backlog and own the commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each PI.
• Accountable for development and updating of technical documentation.
• Collaborate effectively within the specific team and across agile teams to ensure alignment in dependencies and impacts.
• Optimize, enhance, and support cybersecurity protocols related to the shared service application suite.
• Accountable for application health and version control across all non-prod environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Technical Engineering preferred.
• 7+ years of Weblogic and/or Websphere experience preferred.
• 5+ years of related work experience in technology delivery and business analysis.
• Understanding of enterprise applications and end-to-end processes in specialized application support stream preferred.
• Experience with multi-tier JEE environments.
• Strong knowledge in Oracle fundamentals and experience in Oracle RAC.
• Experience with Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Excellent understanding of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) approach.
• Excellent proficiency in SQL, SQL-Plus, and CRON coding knowledge.
• In-depth understanding of Oracle database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Strong scripting experience (JavaScript, XML, Python, etc.).
• Strong analytical skills to solve complicated issues during design and testing phases.

Nice-to-haves

• SAFe certification(s) a plus.
• Experience developing in an agile environment.