Sr. Staff Engineering Operations Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Evaluate, acquire, configure, operate, maintain engineering applications, tools and utilities, on-prem and in hybrid or full cloud environments.
• Administer Jenkins or similar solutions.
• Setup and manage compute, network, storage in coordination with IT.
• Set up and administer OSS vulnerability and static-analysis tools, perform scans, and produce customer-facing reports, with the goal of increasing automation.
• Develop and enhance tools to increase engineering productivity.
• Manage engineering tools such as Jira, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, web services / dashboards, MySQL databases, Jama, etc.
• Perform OSS vulnerability and static-analysis scanning, produce customer-facing reports, with the goal of increasing automation.
• Develop tools for automation in Python, PHP, bash.
• Collaborate with TPMs, operations, development and QA to assess requirements for engineering to work smoothly, efficiently, and within budget.
• Think outside the box and from a customer's perspective on how to improve existing processes and come up with innovative solutions to challenges.
• Champion and implement engineering policies, rules, protocols to produce a (security-)compliant work environment across our engineering organization.
• Document changes, new tools & processes, and create dashboards and reports.
• Ensure continuous compliance with ISO standards, such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, etc.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (MS preferred) in Computer Science, Computer engineering, Electrical engineering, or other related fields with 15+ years of working experience in EngOps/DevOps/IT, networking, cybersecurity, or a similar field.
• Excellent foundational knowledge of Linux / Unix system environment including the underlying hardware it runs on.
• Solid experience with Ethernet networking (plus troubleshooting), file systems, storage, logging, monitoring, tracing and alert.
• Proficient in shell scripting, Python and/or PHP.
• Excellent working knowledge of git / GitHub.
• Solid understanding and experience with GitHub Enterprise and Jira administration.
• Strong expertise in administering Jenkins or another CI/CD/CT platform.
• Foundation in C/C++.
• Experience with Static Analysis tools such as Coverity, Code Sonar, or similar.
• Experience with OSS vulnerability scanners, such as Black Duck, Snyk, or similar.
• Familiarity with build systems (e.g. make, cmake, Bazel).
• Experience with application-level virtualization through tools like Docker, and machine virtualization via hypervisors such as KVM, VMWare, or similar.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technology such as Ansible.
• Experience with ISO27001 and ISO9001.
• Excellent problem-solving, technical, and analytical abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with cloud cost management and optimization strategies.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools/frameworks (e.g., Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, OpenTelemetry).