Be an Innovative Agent of Change

Looking for a company that inspires passion and imagination, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of digital ecommerce?

At FTD (NASDAQ:FTD) we continually evolve the business by promoting a culture where solutions from the technology group help transform our lines of business through customer-meaningful solutions, innovative technologies and business-impacting projects.

We are seeking an innovative game changer: be part of the DevOps team, and be responsible for building solutions over cloud for CI/CD, test automation activities for the new & existing services, and be part of the migration activities towards cloud & micro-services architecture. This is an important component of our high traffic, consumer facing, $1.3B industry leading ecommerce platform.

We are at start of major digital transformation, digital team will adopt new roles, structures and new ways of working and thinking -- individual joining for this role will have major influence in shaping FTD's customer experience journey so come join us now!!!!

What You Will Contribute:

• Drive the architecture, design and implementation of automated/continuous build, deploy and release processes using integrated tools in the CI/CD pipeline like Bitbucket, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus/Artifactory, etc.
• Expand the CI/CD pipeline to integrate with various quality assurance tools, like Selenium, Dynatrace, etc.
• Automate testing procedures & recurring tasks where possible.
• Develop and report on key CI/CD metrics enabling data driven decision making.
• Maintain deployment pipelines for all your infrastructure as code.
• Collaborate with the development team on shared objectives.
• Provide technical support to development engineers in the area of tool usage and build environments.
• Administer JIRA's core and software, Confluence, and formulate technical solutions using JIRA and associated JIRA plugins or Atlassian products.

What we offer:

• We encourage and welcome out of the box ideas in all areas like artificial intelligence, data processing and information retrieval, voice capabilities, automation, computer vision, etc.
• Enjoy all the benefits of working for a publicly traded company (stock purchase plan, flexible hours and a healthy vacation plan).
• A relaxed work environment (shorts and sandals always welcome, onsite gym with classes).
• The blending of cultures across multiple cities and 3 continents where you can be part of helping shape our future.
• Lines of business and a technology organization ready to embrace your role and the business value it brings.
• A "flat" organization where you will spend time with business leaders, managers, developers, product management and executive leadership.
• Career opportunities! Those that have positive impact, with a positive approach, have a very bright future as we change, grow, expand and explore new and exciting experiences for our global customer base.

What we seek:

• At least 8 years in the tech space.
• Strong background in Linux.
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes (experience with CI / CD tools).
• Experience working with Continuous Integration and Deployment tools.
• Solid background in implementing infrastructure automation and code deployment systems.
• Solid and defensible opinions about system management, logging, orchestration, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong understanding of Agile and the software development life cycle, specifically design, debugging, testing and documentation.
• Working knowledge of GCP, Docker, Jenkins, Micro service architecture.
• Experience working within a high volume, high-availability environment.
• Knowledge of scalability, HA and DR is desired but not mandatory.
• At least 2 years of experience as an Atlassian Tool Suite Administrator: some combination of JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket.
• A working knowledge of Agile (Scrum or Kanban) methodologies.
• Familiarity with provisioning and container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Excellent detail-oriented organizational and communications skills.

Come join our team and be part of an exciting transformation! While you are part of the office of technology, you will have a broader impact on the overall growth of the business. Consider joining one of the few companies outside of Silicon Valley able to offer development of a high-traffic ecommerce platform receiving upwards of 40K customer purchases an hour.

Come give FTD a look! This position will be based in Chicago, IL. We are an incredibly open and welcoming company--come join our family!

FTD Companies is a global premier floral and gifting company with a vision to be the leading and most trusted floral and gifting company in the world. We provide floral, specialty foods, gift and related products and services to consumers, retail florists, and other retail locations and companies in need of floral and gifting solutions.