DevOps Engineer III
Job Description
Company Description:
McDonald's new growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald's will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive Thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.
Leading this revolution is McDonald's Global Technology organization made up of intrapreneurs who get to build really cool tech with scary smart people using the latest innovations like AI, IOT, and edge computing. We do this working along diverse, global teams who are always hungry for a challenge. It's bonus points when you get to see your family and friends use the tech you build at their favorite McDonald's restaurant.
As we have matured as an engineering organization and seen the demands for technology grow exponentially, we're gearing up to deliver on the next set of opportunities for the business. We are building up an engineering team in house accountable for our strategic products. We'll have diverse squads made up of engineers with traditional and specialized skillsets, both from internal engineers coupled with our partners, to help us flex with demand and solve technology innovation challenges done at an incredible scale.
Check out the Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology is directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.
Job Description:
We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to help own the transformation and ongoing standardization of our CI/CD pipelines and test and development environments.
In this strategy and transformation-focused role, you will partner with our test automation teams, product engineering groups, and 3rd party engineering vendors to develop and drive CI/CD tool adoption and standardization, and development environment improvements.
We're looking at how to use CI/CD optimizations, cloud environments, and standardization technology to improve the development lifecycle and code quality.
Responsibilities
- As a DevOps Engineer on the Digital DevOps team, you will play a pivotal role in evaluating the CI/CD pipeline and the development environments.
- Identify and test solutions to transform environments and CI/CD tooling to improve scalability and leverage automation.
- Educate and advise development teams, comprising resources from the test automation, point of sale, digital applications, and backend systems, on how CI/CD standards, tooling and environments can help achieve their objectives; assist in bringing teams together to resolve repetitive issues in the CI/CD pipeline and development environments.
- Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most meaningful priorities.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience with specialization in DevOps areas of focus.
- Excellent coding and scripting skills (Bash, Groovy) and experience with implementing high-scale cloud architectures using modern, cloud-based container platforms (PaaS/SaaS)
- Solid understanding of deployment automation solutions (i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
- Solid, applied, knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS) and cluster management tools like Kubernetes (AWS EKS)
- Experience with containers such as Docker
- Experience with continuous integration and related tools such as Jenkins Pipelines, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, etc.
- Implement capacity management as business practice for release environment management team working with other middleware and infrastructure teams.
- Develop recommendations for improvements and strives to automate manual processes for existing tools and operations.
- Collaborate with Test Automation, CICD teams to improve automation capabilities.
- Perform root-cause analysis of defects to identify and implement solutions and process improvements.
- Lead workgroups formed by several disparate teams.
- Experience with writing Terraform scripts
- Experience with implementing Service Mesh with Istio
- Experience working with API Gateway
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are self-driven and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience
Nice-to-haves
- Strong experience with GitHub Actions.
- Experience converting Jenkins pipelines to GitHub Actions.
- Experience with TeamCity
- Experience with ArgoCD
- Experience leading a small team and mentoring others.
Additional Information:
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