The DevOps Software Engineer is responsible for delivering results for the Product Development department by:

• Designing and implementing strategies to improve and automate our environment provisioning, setup and testing processes for both on premise and cloud-based infrastructure
• Designing and maintaining highly distributed system in a public cloud
• Contributing to an Agile (Scrum), or Lean (Kanban), or hybrid team to solve the engineering challenges
• Producing high quality code fast
• Being a dependable and highly skilled development resource for peers
• Having a broad awareness of related projects

Performs the following functions, in addition to others:

• Advocates and models coding and collaboration practices, reviews team code, and provides team members with feedback and suggestions for process improvement
• Collaborates with other dev teams regularly to establish an outbound and inbound pipeline of new (to kCura) best practices
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Oversees the application environment to effectively run and maintain the technology and recommend any potential technology or process improvements with an emphasis on cloud computing and configuration management platforms.
• Provide development expertise to team members through education and review
• Always open to new ideas and encourages innovative practices amongst peers
• Works collaboratively with QA professionals to encourage defect prevention over detection

Engineers may be required to handle technical support calls after hours about 3-4 times a year. If Client Services is working on a ticket and they are not able to solve an urgent issue, they will reach out to the level I developer to assist to get the issue resolved.