DevOps Engineer (see cities listed in posting)

Type: Full-time

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Charlotte, NC 28202

Salary: Not disclosed

Job Description:

At Regions, the DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing our cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role will include developing, communicating and implementing cloud Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines which are robust and secure. This role will work closely with all stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevOps best practices.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partners with other developers and other information technology staff to oversee code releases
• Articulates business needs and translates them into technology solutions
• Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments, including automation of all infrastructure, services, and application build and deployment
• Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices, including unit tests and infrastructure tests
• Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Implements highly scalable applications
• Maintains health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties
• Completes project work and contributes to the technical direction of various objectives
• Automates operational activities and tasks
• Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents
• Builds tools which reduce errors and improve overall customer experiences
• Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensures pipeline and infrastructure produce clear documentation and metrics which enable Root Cause Analysis
• Develops and tests Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establishes immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
• Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Application Development to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or High school diploma or GED and seven (7) years of DevOps experience
• Four (4) years experience as a DevOps practitioner
• Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies

Preferences

• Working knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow is a big plus
• Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions
• Proficient in Python programming language
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure – Compute – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Machines (VMs), SQL – Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) or Azure SQL, Document Data Store (DynamoDb, Mongo), Security Groups, Subnets
• Experience in building/deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
• Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using YAML specs, Ansible Playbooks
• Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
• Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevOps
• Preferred AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification

Location Details

This position must be within a reasonable driving distance to a Branch, Consumer Operations, or Professional Office Building with the primary location being for Birmingham, AL, Nashville, TN, Atlanta, GA or Charlotte, NC. Regions will not provide relocation assistance for this position, and relocation would be at your expense. Exceptions to the geographic location requirement may be made for current Regions associates who work remotely.

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

Job Range Target:

• Minimum: $150,088.80 USD
• Median: $186,010.00 USD
• Incentive Pay Plans: Opportunity to participate in the Long Term Incentive Plan

Benefits Information

Regions offers a benefits package that is flexible, comprehensive and recognizes that "one size does not fit all" for benefits-eligible associates. Listed below is a synopsis of the benefits offered by Regions for informational purposes, which is not intended to be a complete summary of plan terms and conditions.

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associates at any time.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Regions is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans. Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting.