Staff DevOps Platform Engineer - Kubernetes/Azure (Hybrid)

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Milpitas, CA

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

BD Biosciences is seeking a Staff 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 Staff 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.

Responsibilities

• Work very closely and integrated with our developers to adopt and drive culture change.
• Together with a team of engineers, design, architect and deliver the next-generation internal developer platform.
• Work with peer technical leaders and their teams to enable engineers to seamlessly deploy their software components using GitOps.
• Focus on continuously improving 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 help enable and provide better feedback to the developers.
• Monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environments infrastructure.
• Investigate and fix stability, performance and scalability bottlenecks.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or similar required.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Software Engineering roles as DevOps Platform engineer required.
• Expert in container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes required.
• Expert experience creating, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD pipelines required.
• Expert in IaC technologies such as Helm, Packer, and Terraform.
• Expert in deploying, managing, and maintaining at least 2 of the following SCM toolchain such as Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Nexus, TFS, Azure DevOps.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience operating in a highly regulated industry.
• Expert experience in version control and source control management (Git).
• Experience with system management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or Chef.
• Experience in managing a VMware-based virtualization environment or similar.
• Experience and knowledge of Microsoft and/or Linux system administration and networking.
• 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.
• Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Expert in maintaining and managing software build infrastructure (Azure DevOps(preferable), Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamForge, etc.).
• Knowledge of test-driven development, software configuration management, and automated testing.
• Strong understanding of programming principles, structure, and Versioning.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $126,600.00 - $208,900.00 USD Annual.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Supportive work environment that values contributions and opinions.