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Meijer Sr. DevOps Engineer in Grand Rapids, Michigan
As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
Meijer Rewards
Weekly pay
Scheduling flexibility
Paid parental leave
Paid education assistance
Care.com/back-up care assistance
Team member discount
Development programs for advancement and career growth
Please review the job profile below and apply today!
This role sits within our Enablement Team, which is responsible for building standardized templates, documenting best practices, mentoring product teams, and collaborating with DevOps champions across IT. This role has a primary focus on DevOps implementation and maturing the DevOps mindset, meaning we’re looking for someone to help drive/build behavior of DevOps and SAFe agile best practices across the enterprise.
This position can be considered for remote work if you live within one of our 6 footprint states - Michigan (headquarters), Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, or Kentucky.
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( What You'll be Doing):
Responsible for working with platform architects & domain experts to develop and execute on our DevOps roadmap.
Drive development of existing DevOps platforms and contribute to development of new DevOps platforms with analysis and identifying areas of modernization to increase product team quality and performance.
Responsible for working with platform architects to develop and execute on our DevOps roadmap.
Mentors and coaches’ other junior members of the Enterprise DevOps & agile teams.
Provides functional and technical expertise on vendor applications and interfaces.
Interfaces with product team DevOps champions to develop cross team solutions, tools, best practices, and support for pipeline automation.
Key knowledge and skills of Visual Studio IDE to support development teams.
Azures/Multi -cloud along with Azure build agents.
Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CICD) design & pipelines, version control systems (Azure DevOps, GitHub) and automated testing frameworks.
Repository management tools and concepts such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc.
Drives engagement with ITS Security and Infrastructure teams to strengthen our DevSecOps footprint.
Understanding the integrating of various DevOps tools into ServiceNow to support change & incident management for our CICD pipelines.
Works within the SAFe Agile framework to understand how to support product teams.
Partner with Cloud CoE & Core infrastructure teams to develop & enable capabilities using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, YAML for product teams
Understanding of IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, YAML would be helpful with setting standards.
Coordinates new product reviews, tests and pilots with other IT members, customers, and stakeholders.
Coordinates feasibility studies/proofs of concept, to evaluate solutions.
Assists in production support and maintenance of applications and licensing as needed.
Actively participates in all team Agile ceremonies. This job role may also provide facilitation of activities utilizing SAFe templates.
This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
Bachelor’s or 12 years' experience (or comparable combination of education and related experience).
SAFe DevOps certification (SDP) preferred, any other SAFe certifications (SSM, SASM, SA, SPC, SPMPO) are helpful.
Prefer experience in business application design, development, installation, and modification.
Knowledge of project management techniques is required (cross-functional experience is highly desirable).
Expertise with implementation and configuration of vendor packages/business systems.
Experience as a team member on project teams in a cross-functional environment. Experience on Agile teams is preferred.
Strong business knowledge, with hands-on experience managing vendor packages for the business.
Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
Knowledge of secure code design principles and practices.
Working knowledge of SAFE agile framework preferred.
Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills. Ability to work well on cross-functional project teams and foster team commitment to tasks.
Knowledge of agile practices in a cross-functional environment preferred.
Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
We opened our doors more than 85 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we’re a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 240 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request . Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.