Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company, the nation's only company exclusively insuring the jewelry industry is hiring for a DevOps Engineer II to work with DAIS Technology!

Why JM?
We are a company that is driven by our core values of Agility, Accountability and Relevancy!  We will raise the tide of the Jewelry Industry through our people, our customer commitment and our technology.  

COVID-19 Update: Jewelers Mutual recognizes the impact of COVID – 19 and our employees safety is at the forefront of our response to this pandemic.  We have created an Emergency Response and Readiness (ERR) team to daily monitor and assess the COVID-19 situation.  Protocols have been established to ensure a safe and healthy workplace and our employees can find comfort in knowing their safety is our number one priority.

The DevOps Engineer II will work collaboratively with software engineers, cloud engineers, and architects to streamline and productionize deployment pipelines with trunk-based deployments, automated testing, and feature flags. The DevOps Engineer II helps codify the related cloud infrastructure and helps support automated configurations. In addition, is responsible for providing leadership on innovations and best practices within the IT community at Jeweler Mutual.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Works closely with Senior DevOps Engineers to understand, design and implement modern DevOps practices.
• Assists development teams, infrastructure, and operations with the use of automation technologies to enable IT service improvements
• Document, design and re-design various processes to continually improve service to the customer.
• Work closely with IT team members, business stakeholders and agile teams as a DevOps Advocate.
• Assist Senior DevOps Engineers with socializing new standards across IT
• Evaluates existing applications and platforms and provides recommendations for improving performance to Senior DevOps Engineers
• Builds automated deployments and feedback mechanisms
• Leads and performs scripts maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations
• Works with vendors to resolve problems and develop solutions
• Responsible for the day to day management and administration of Infrastructure as Code components to meet business needs.
• Support CI & CD tools and pipelines as a partner to development teams.
• Work closely with Senior DevOps Engineers to create and maintain configuration standards for software and infrastructure
• Monitor technology and organizational trends in IaC, CI / CD, DevOps and DevSecOps in order to mature and continually improve IT services
• Complete all other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

• Intermediate understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and DevOps concepts
• Intermediate experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef, Ansible or an equivalent
• Intermediate experience with programmable infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code IaC tools like Terraform.
• Intermediate experience with using scripting languages like Python and command languages (Bash)
• Experience administrating Linux distros (i.e. RHEL)
• Intermediate experience building and deploying containers.
• Experience with container orchestrators (plus)
• Experience working with cloud infrastructures (Azure)
• Desire to implement best practices across development IT operations.
• Experience with agile/scrum delivery teams.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and take initiative in driving results
• Ability to interact with both technical and non-technical roles in the organization
• Experience developing software or meeting operational needs with code and script (JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, .NET or Java) 
• Advocate of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Experience with software quality principles and associated tools for testing and analysis
• Experience with CI and CD practices 
• Experience with PaaS technologies such as containers, container orchestration and scheduling, service registration / discovery and monitoring
• Experience with manual and automated testing and quality practices. 

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in technical field (Computer science, engineering or related field) or equivalent experience
• 2+ years’ experience working with Linux systems in AWS
• 2+ years’ experience working with Java and JavaScript frameworks
• 2+ years’ experience in DevOps using tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and Spinnaker
• Thorough understanding of potential bottlenecks in large scale distributed systems
• Advanced Linux troubleshooting skills and ability to script solutions to resolve repeating issues
• Excellent documentation skills and clear communication style
• A strong desire to learn new skills and not being afraid to take on new challenges
• Past experience with automation using Python is highly preferred