DevOps Staff Engineer

An Amazing Career Opportunity for an DevOps Staff Engineer!!

Location: Cardiff UK

Job ID: 30521

As a DevOps Staff Engineer in Cardiff, you will drive the team formation, implementation and maintenance of a robust CI/CD pipeline within HID PACS.

This is a wide-ranging role, implementing the functions of the DevOPS blueprint as described by the DevOps Architect.

The qualified candidate will establish a sustainable DevOps framework and methodology, providing a fully supported and scalable test enviroment which support CI/CD.

Who are we? 

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees. Check us out here: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo 

Join our winning team, Physical Access Control Solutions Business Area (PACS)! 
The PACS business is highly visible and one of our most significant portfolios within HID Global. The PACS products include smart cards, mobile access and identifications, software, services and controllers for physical access control.

Team Objectives

1. Faster Time to Market

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Automating the testing and deployment processes reduces the time required to release new features and updates.

Reduced Time for Feedback: Quick feedback loops enable rapid identification and resolution of issues.

2. Improved Quality and Reliability

Automated Testing: Ensures consistent and thorough testing, reducing the risk of human error.

Continuous Monitoring: Proactive monitoring and alerting help in early detection of potential issues.

3. Scalability and Flexibility

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automating infrastructure management allows for scaling and flexibility in resource allocation.

4. Enhanced Collaboration and Efficiency

Unified Teams: DevOps promotes a culture of collaboration between development and operations teams, leading to better communication and fewer bottlenecks.

Shared Responsibilities: Cross-functional teams share responsibilities for development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

As our DevOps Staff Engineer, you’ll support HID’s success by: 

• Able to design and implement a wide range of DevOps techniques to support a scalable and automated CI/CD environment.
• Monitor, triage and resolve CI/CD pipeline failures.
• Design, build and documentation of new CI/CD infrastructure for new features.
• Able to identify and liaise with stakeholders to cover CI/CD gaps
• Able to communicate DevOps best practice to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to project manage and use technical leadership to achieve a team result
• Contributes to project and product planning discussions
• Understands the product Release process
• Plans and scopes DevOps requirements in collaboration with the DevOps Architect
• Able to make decisions regarding the DevOps Environment
• Coaches / mentors others at a technical level
• Able to research, plan and train others within the team
• Able to deliver technical reports
• Champions TDD methodology and leads stakeholders in its implementation

What we will love about your background:

• Staff Engineer is seen as a grounded and reliable engineer who is a master of their specific domain.
• Capable of owning technical design for projects of moderate complexity and understands the trade-offs in creating good work/output/product in their field.
• They are aware and self-learn industry best practices & trends and have acquired at least one major skill outside of their area of expertise.
• The Staff Engineer by all means, gets a lot done!  They are responsible for complex tasks and complete them despite roadblocks, involving other experts as needed to problem solve.
• They require little oversight beyond high-level direction and are capable of taking a complex scenario, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing sub-tasks with relative ease. 
• This engineer shows initiative beyond completing tasks list; they can identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and their teams.
• The Staff Engineer self-seeks evidence to support their ideas and builds cases for these ideas.
• They have end-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompasses more than their own development.
• This engineer is known and seen as a technical leader by their peers and works effectively with non-technical members.
• Usually works with limited supervision, conferring with the wider team and Supervision as required.
• Has latitude for un-reviewed action or decision making.

Your Experience and Education include: 

• Engineering degree or equivalent or suitable experience.
• Minimum of +7 years of related industry experience.
• Familiarity with infrastructure management and monitoring tools.
• Awareness of developer operations platform tooling such as Jenkins, Gradle, Snyk, SonarQube, DefectDojo, Ansible, Yocto, Yocto Cooker, Ant, Maven, NPM, Nexus, Docker, Terraform, AWS DevOps Services (As examples)
• Familiarity with documentation standards and practices with a developer operations focus.
• Good presenting and communication skills, good judgment, analytical ability.
• Experience in building and maintaining good working relationships with both external and internal parties
• Strong IT skills and knowledge including hardware, software, and networking.
• Ability to work on complex tasks without technical guidance.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practices
• Should have knowledge of various test/development methodologies such as TDD, BDD, Acceptance Testing and Unit Testing.

Why apply? 

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something.  HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries.  We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.  
 
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

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