Senior DevOps Software Engineer
Job Summary
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Job Description Summary:
Rockets Data Modernization Business Unit enables organizations to effectively manage govern and unlock the full value of their enterprise data. Building on a strong legacy of innovation and industry leadership Rocket continues to be recognized as a trusted pioneer in data solutions.As part of our ongoing investment in this strategic platform we are driving a significant modernization effort to expand its capabilities support emerging use cases and scale to meet the needs of a growing customer base.
As a Senior DevOps Software Engineer you will play a critical role in this transformation. You will design implement and optimize infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks to improve reliability performance and delivery velocity. You will collaborate closely with engineering operations and product teams to ensure seamless deployment and operation of our platform in modern ecosystems.
Position Reports To: Senior Software Engineering Manager
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
- Develop maintain and migrate build scripts using Groovy or other scripting languages to improve operational efficiency.
- Automate manage and optimize Jenkins infrastructure ensuring scalability security and reliability.
- Maintain and enhance build environments including deployments scaling and monitoring.
- Manage and optimize Git repositories and branching strategies for efficient development workflows.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application issues to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize application deployments and performance.
- Implement DevSec Ops practices including security scanning vulnerability management and compliance monitoring across CI/CD pipelines.
Required Qualifications:
- 8 years of software engineering experience
- Expertise in Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline automation.
- Proficiency in Git for version control and collaboration.
- Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration scaling and deployment.
- Strong scripting skills in Groovy or similar languages.
- Solid understanding of Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work on complex less-defined projects.
- Effective communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Ensure proper versioning and dependency management.
- Establish best practices for publishing retrieving and archiving artifacts.
- Enforce dependency version control strategies (e.g. snapshot vs. release versions).
- Clean up unused or outdated artifacts to optimize storage.
- Design develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines usingJenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD or other automation tools.
- Automate artifact publishing and retrieval in build and deployment workflows.
- Troubleshoot build failures related to dependency issues.
- Optimize dependency resolution times and caching mechanisms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MaintainExperience in maintaining build infrastructure Jenkins build nodes and related tools including compilers and runtime libraries on Windows Linux and z/OS.
- Maintain security scan (Blackduck Polaris) and code signing facilities on those build nodes.
Manage Artifactory repository infrastructures dependencies and accesses
- Support release rollout processes.
- Be able to support Windows Linux z/OS build nodes.
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud and containerized environments.
- Familiarity with database management and optimization.
- Experience with observability tools and performance tuning.
Education:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Travel Requirements:
0 - 10%
Information Security:
Information security is everyones responsibility. A fundamental principle of information security at Rocket Software is that all individuals in the organization have a responsibility for the security and protection of company information and IT Resources over which they have control according to their role.
Diversity Inclusion & Equity:
At Rocket we are committed to an inclusive workplace environment where every Rocketeer can thrive by bringing their full selves to work. Being a Rocketeer means you are part of our movement to continually drive inclusivity diversity and equity in our workforce.
.Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
As part of our commitment to a safe and trustworthy workplace we include background and reference checks in our hiring process.
Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment please call: or send an email to We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
If you like wild growth and working with happy enthusiastic over-achievers youll enjoy your career with us!
Required Experience:
Senior IC