Devops Engineer

Role: Devops Engineer

Location: Bellevue WA

Rate: $60 $62

Job Description:

Scope and Complexity

Setting technical direction primarily on team

Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of others

Recommends product or process improvements based on areas of responsibility

Works on complex issues where analysis of data is required across multiple dimensions to evaluate options

Exercises judgment in selecting methods techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results and helps others do the same

Understands how to break big ideas down into simple deliverables that can be shipped quickly to validate assumptions informing future iterations

Works with key contacts outside own area of expertise

Influence is strongest on team but may also be expanding outside of the immediate team

Leadership and Communication

Fosters a supportive collaborative culture within the team leading to team growth and greater results

Improves team functioning: drives improvements in engineering practices and systems

Provides technical mentorship for team members

Able to lead discussions (written and verbally) that result in actionable items or decisions being made

Gains agreement consolidates differing opinions and enables team to move forward

Manages self and others time effectively leads productive meetings keeps others informed

Anticipates obstacles challenges in schedule and raises proactively to resolve

Leads by example in creating a culture of psychological safety both within the team and crossteam where differing views can be shared and heard

Technical Contributions

Understands and builds for scale working with system maintainability and long term goals in mind

Strives to reduce complexity

Provides technical guidance through valuable and detailed code reviews is a sought after code reviewer

Leads by example within the team by producing simple extensible and maintainable code with few defects

Finds and fixes classes of defects

Uses data and insights from customer and production to contribute to technical design and implementation decisions

Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code

Solves technology challenges impacting product as a whole (demonstrating expertise aligning to product goals)

Considers impact of alternatives on technical debt and product supportability

Chooses the appropriate internal or external technologies incorporates research creates designs and validation documents & materials including test automations that are reused across the teams

Key Qualifications:

Engineering background

Able to speak and teach confidently about technical topics

Facilitation background or desire to facilitate on technical topics

Stakeholder management

Crossfunctional collaboration

Excellent verbal & written communication skills

Technical content development background a plus though not a requirement