Software DevOps Engineer

Data Dimensions

Data Dimensions

Software Engineering
Janesville, WI, USA · Janesville, WI, USA · United States
Posted on Mar 13, 2025

Purpose: The Software DevOps Engineer participates in all aspects of the design and implementation of sophisticated products, utilizing the latest and most advanced engineering technologies in the industry. These include building and maintaining our deployment infrastructure, automating development workflows, and ensuring smooth delivery of our applications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Develop work estimates for projects.
  • Utilize your outstanding problem-solving skills and attention-to-detail to participate in the analysis and design of integrated solutions.
  • Assist in the gathering, review, and analysis of requirements, both from business users and from teams responsible for other application systems.
  • Create and maintain functional and technical design specifications and solutions to satisfy project requirements.
  • Participate in code and design reviews and technical presentations to cross-functional staff.
  • Identify and implement appropriate testing strategies.
  • Assist with SQA efforts for development of test methodologies/programs to validate functionality/design of software systems.
  • Identify and drive improvements to current development processes, architectures and infrastructures.
  • Design and maintain BitBucket Pipeline configurations for multiple projects.
  • Create and optimize Docker containers for development and production environments.
  • Manage dependency management tools including Composer and NPM.
  • Implement and maintain automated build and deployment processes.
  • Monitor and optimize pipeline performance.
  • Troubleshoot pipeline failures and deployment issues.
  • Create and maintain development environment documentation.
  • Implement security best practices in the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Collaborate with development teams to improve build and deployment processes.
  • Manage and optimize container orchestration.
  • Propose framework & opportunities for system enhancements to improve performance and overall user experience.
  • Support changes and enhancements from initial development to product deployment.
  • Participate in a self-directed, multi-disciplinary team environment.
  • Mentor new team members as needed to advance their ability to contribute.
  • Collaborate with project team members and SQA representatives on all aspects of development, particularly as concerns documentation, customer satisfaction and security requirements.
  • Accurately repair and document changes to applications as assigned.
  • Research new technologies as time permits.
  • Respond to inquiries from internal users and technical support personnel regarding functions and operations of software programs.
  • Required to attend mandatory meetings and trainings, work scheduled overtime with minimal notice, and perform other duties as assigned per business needs.

Qualification Requirements –

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:

  • Must be at least 18 years of age.
  • Able to read, write and speak English.
  • Successfully pass and maintain acceptable background checks and security clearances.
  • Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university plus 4-5 years of DevOps experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
  • Knowledge and understanding of computer networking principles.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical information (verbally and in writing) to the development team.
  • Strong understanding of SDLC tools, techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
  • Excellent critical thinking and problem analysis skills.
  • Superior project management – must effectively develop and manage project plans identifying all tasks, timelines, and resource staffing needed to meet project deadlines; ensure project remains on timeline track and within budget managing delays and resolving problems.
  • Focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with SLAs.

Certificates and Licenses:

  • No certificates or licenses needed.

Computer Skills:

  • Strong proficiency with Docker and container orchestration.
  • Extensive experience with BitBucket Pipelines.
  • Expert knowledge of package managers (Composer, NPM).
  • Experience with version control systems (Git).
  • Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, PHP/Symfony).
  • Understanding of web application architecture.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging solutions.
  • Knowledge of security best practices in CI/CD.
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.