Remote Principal DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Coconut as a Principal DevOps Engineer to improve product development and address technical challenges. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of software development practices, architecture, and devops best practices.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate Technical Ownership
• Contribute to determining the performance, scalability, and reliability of our products
• Lead the research, scoping, design, and planning of devops initiatives with realistic implementation schedules
• Help senior engineering leaders drive department goals, create strategic roadmaps, and identify priorities to meet business objectives
• Contribute to and guide architecture
• Participate in the development and testing of functionality in collaboration with team members, while providing technical advice and guidance
• Provide technical documentation for efficient maintenance, knowledge transfer, and decision making
• Articulate status/dependencies/blockers proactively and effectively, while subscribing to a customer-first approach to devops practices
• Deep dive and uncover or foresee technology and organizational needs
• Troubleshoot and solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for your department
• Where possible, become the center for innovative ideas and opportunities between several teams, with a willingness to experiment and confront large and complex problems
• Analyze devops challenges and develop solutions to resolve issues
• Be a Nomad (sort of)
• With time, you’ll become a Coconut SME in specific product areas and drive critical objectives and projects within those areas focusing on our business needs
• Collaborate and make recommendations across several teams, and help the team make evidence-based decisions in alignment with our strategic plans
• Work with engineering managers to understand areas of concern and help identify solutions
• Be a Leader
• Lead by example - act in accordance with our CHEERS values
• Mentor, coach, and elevate the members of the devops and engineering team
• Guide members to remove blockers and encourage collaboration
• Demonstrate and set technical standards and best practices, as if creating a center of excellence within the devops department
• Have the desire to constantly improve your own technical and product knowledge, and empower other engineers to do the same
• Review devops work, provide critical feedback, even managing up when necessary, to all members of the team
• Identify and determine improvements in our SDLC and how the product and engineering teams operate
• Contribute to the hiring, onboarding, and development of new team members
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to the devops team improving quality of deliverables