Senior DevOps Engineer-Supervisor

Thurston County, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 97356 - 130992

Posted on: 01-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

This position is eligible for the 5% IT supervisor premium in addition to the listed compensation.

This full-time position based in Olympia offers a flexible remote arrangement. Youll primarily work remotely with occasional in-person requirements for meetings collaborative projects training and other meaningful interactions. Your supervisor will work with you to determine schedule and telework arrangements.

The ideal candidate for the Senior DevOps Engineer-Supervisor (IT Application Development Senior Specialist) position is a seasoned technology leader with a deep understanding of DevOps principles and a passion for public service. They bring extensive experience in automating software delivery pipelines managing cloud infrastructure and driving operational excellence across development and IT teams. With a strong background in CI/CD Agile methodologies and software-defined infrastructure this individual thrives at the intersection of innovation and reliabilityensuring that the Paid Family and Medical Leave and WA Cares programs are supported by scalable secure and high-performing systems.

This candidate is not only technically proficient in languages such as PowerShell C# .NET MVC HTML5 JavaScript and T-SQL but also excels in leading cross-functional teams through complex deployments and troubleshooting efforts. They are adept at release and configuration management and understand how to maintain critical integration points between applications and services like network security and infrastructure. Their leadership style fosters collaboration continuous improvement and a culture of accountability ensuring that both internal and external users experience consistent system availability and performance.

Above all the candidate will be a strategic thinker and a collaborative partner who works closely with the DevOps Architect and other Leave and Care Technology (LCT) leaders to shape the Leave & Care product roadmap and technology vision. They are committed to building a culture of creativity innovation and productivity that aligns with the mission of serving Washingtons citizens. With a strong sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impactful solutions this individual is ready to lead the DevOps team in supporting the rollout and ongoing operation of vital statewide programs.

Duties

Lead LCT DevOps.This includes:

Provide direct supervision of DevOps team establish position objectives and expectations

Effectively mentor train coach counsel and motivate staff to achieve consistently high performance

Ensure that supervised staff have the information resources and authority to complete assignments and meet documented expectations

Ensures all members of the DevOps team are cross trained and fully able to support system issues or outages

Leads and/or participate in agency- and/or state-wide DevOps workgroups initiatives and/or communities of practice

Provides DevOps representation within the LCT technology organization

Design plan and deliver high availability Production infrastructure services system monitoring and documentation through DevOps principles and best practices

Automate DevOps procedures where applicable through software defined networking and infrastructure as code

Design create and maintain automated build and release pipelines

Design technical environments and software tools for development operations

Design build and maintain development test and other environments to support LCT teams systems and infrastructure. This Includes:

Support all LCT environments through system monitoring issue and outage notifications overnight and daily batch processing running special jobs (ad hoc) data fixes applying permissions upgrading and patching

Design implement and maintain redundancy within complex production systems across multiple servers or cloud resources

Ensure proper load balancing for all production hosts for system efficiency

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Qualifications

Eleven (11) years of progressive IT experience* developing and implementing methods and processes for managing IT projects products systems and processes.

ORA bachelors degree in computer science information technology or a closely related field and seven years of progressive IT experience* in information technology that includes software architecture software development computer programming and/or software systems administration.

ORAn equivalent combination of IT related education and/or relevant progressive professional IT experience* equal to eleven (11) years

*Qualifying professional IT experience is defined as experience in one or more of the following IT disciplines: IT Consulting Architecture Application Development DevOps Engineering Cloud Engineering Production Systems Administration Release Management and/or other experience as listed below.

Demonstrated skills in PowerShell and/or C#

Systems security skills - knowledge of systems security issues

Demonstrated knowledge with Azure Cloud systems (Azure Functions App Service App Insights Azure SQL Azure Storage) modern Windows server operating systems IIS and troubleshooting methodologies.

Demonstrated knowledge of VSTS/Azure DevOps

Special Requirements/Conditions of Employment:

Will frequently work outside normal business hours in support of production deployments

Must be able to pass an Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Paid Family Medical and Leave (PFML) claim and fraud check

Please submit only the required documents as noted below and ensure all Personal Identifying Information (PII) such as Social Security numbers etc. are edited out of your materials for privacy. Additionally we ask that you not include photographs or external links within your documents.Any documents uploaded through this platform will be securely transmitted electronically to support application review.

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Supplemental Information

Ouragencys mission and values drive every decision that we make determine how we interact with others and are at the core of who we are. We value Access Love Belonging Equity and Stewardship. We understand that a work environment that respects your work/life balance is key; thats why many of our positions are eligible for flexible work schedules and teleworking opportunities. Through support value and trust our employees are empowered to grow and develop into their best self.

Opportunity for All

We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural ethnic racial religious sexual orientation and gender identity diversity. Women racial and ethnic minorities people with disabilities people over 40 years of age people with religious beliefs veterans or people with military status and people of all sexual orientations and gender identities are encouraged to apply.

The Employment Security Department is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.

If you are a person needing assistance in the application process if you need this job announcement in an alternate format or if you have general questions about this opportunity please contactCaleb Baldwin or at or the Talent Acquisition Team prior to the position closing. If you are having technical difficulties creating accessing or completing your application please contact or or toll free Washington Relay 711.

This recruitment may be used to fill additional agency-wide positions in accordance with Article 4 of the WFSE Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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DescriptionThis position is eligible for the 5% IT supervisor premium in addition to the listed compensation.This full-time position based in Olympia offers a flexible remote arrangement. Youll primarily work remotely with occasional in-person requirements for meetings collaborative projects trainin...