Job Summary:
HID is a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, focused on creating trusted identities through biometric solutions. As a Senior DevOps Manager, you will manage a global DevOps team, oversee CI/CD systems, and collaborate with various teams to enhance software for biometric systems.
Responsibilities:
• Managing your team: Assuming the responsibilities of a people manager, especially setting goals, evaluating performance, planning training and other skills development.
• Participating in the Scaled Agile (SAFe) processes and ceremonies. Coordinating with product leads to drive alignment on sprint priorities.
• Being the first level of escalation point for any DevOps related issues.
• Maintaining Quality Focus & reporting DevOps metrics.
• Listening to and supporting your team members for problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making.
• Partnering with the HID global IT cloud team to configure, maintain, deploy and optimize our cloud-based services (AWS). Providing DevOps services and support for our cloud SW development teams, e.g. creating and maintaining development environments and deployment scripts.
• Implementing, configuring, managing, and maintaining our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) suite of systems and software (BitBucket, Jenkins, Nexus, TestRails, SonarQube and others).
• Closely cooperating with the software engineers on the implementation and configuration of the build pipeline and other DevOps activities.
• Closely cooperating with the QA engineers on the implementation, configuration and maintenance of the automated test processes and infrastructure.
• Acting as an interface with our IT organization, especially when solving problems encountered by our Engineering department.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Experience of managing a DevOps or SW development team.
• Knowledge of the full CI/CD flow and setup.
• Hands on experience with AWS.
• Hands on experience in Jenkins, Git, Docker.
• 2+ years hands on experience and strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, Groovy or equivalent.
• Windows and/or Linux system administration.
• Ability to monitor, debug and automate routine tasks.
• Willing to learn, be proactive, and think creatively.
• Ability to complete tasks independently, with minimal supervision.
• Good teamwork skills.
• Attention to details, reliability, dependability.
• Education: Minimum Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred) in relevant field of study.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years (MA) or 5 years (BA).
Preferred:
• Experience with the components of our CI/CD system: BitBucket, Jenkins, Nexus, TestRails, SonarQube, Docker is preferred.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes is preferred.
• Experience with managing and maintaining on-site server virtualization systems – Proxmox preferred is preferred.
• Knowledge and experience of creating Windows installers, preferrably using InstallShield is preferred.
• Experience with the SAFe methodology is preferred.
• Understanding of the problematics of IT security is preferred.
• SW development skills is preferred.
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams is preferred.
Company:
HID powers the trusted identities of the world's people, places and things. Founded in 1991, the company is headquartered in Irvine, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.