Senior Software Engineer I - DevOps

Summary

Join Sumo Logic's Release Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer I - DevOps Engineer and play a crucial role in developing and maintaining automated tooling for the release processes of all services. You will own the delivery pipeline and automation framework, collaborate with teams to ensure best practices, mentor junior engineers, and provide technology and design recommendations to executives. This role requires significant experience in release automation, DevOps, CI/CD, and software development, along with expertise in cloud technologies and Infrastructure-as-Code. You will contribute to enhancing software delivery and advancing Sumo Logic's internal Platform-as-a-Service. The position offers the opportunity to influence architectural choices and work collaboratively within a dynamic team.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. Computer Sciences or related discipline
• Ability to influence: Understand people’s values and motivations and influence them towards making good architectural choices
• Collaborative working style: You can work with other engineers to come up with good decisions
• Bias towards action: You need to make things happen. It is essential you don’t become an inhibitor of progress, but an enabler
• Flexibility: You are willing to learn and change. Admit past approaches might not be the right ones now
• 4+ years of experience in the design, development, and use of release automation tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, etc
• 2+ years of experience in software development in Java/Scala/Golang or similar
• 3+ years of experience on software delivery technologies like jenkins including experience writing and developing CI/CD pipelines and knowledge of build tools like make/gradle/npm etc
• Experience with cloud technologies, such as AWS/Azure/GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and tools such as Terraform
• Experience with scripting languages such as Groovy, Python, Bash etc
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana or similar tools
• Understanding of GitOps and ArgoCD concepts/workflows
• Understanding of security and compliance aspects of DevSecOps

Responsibilities

• Own the Delivery pipeline and release automation framework for all Sumo services
• Educate and collaborate with teams during both design and development phases to ensure best practices
• Mentor a team of Engineers (Junior to Senior) and improve software development processes
• Evaluate, test, and provide technology and design recommendations to executives
• Write detailed design documents and documentation on system design and implementation
• Ensuring the engineering teams are set up to deliver quality software quickly and reliably
• Enhance and maintain infrastructure and tooling for development, testing and debugging

Benefits

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