Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Are you excited about the latest technologies and patterns?

Founded in 2002 American Auto Shield is headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado. We specialize in 3rd party administration, providing nationwide coverage and claims services for vehicle and home service contracts offered through dealers, agents, direct marketers, membership organizations and lenders.

We continue to experience tremendous growth, which equates to fantastic opportunities for our employees. We're building an all new ecosystem from the ground up. Are you deep into the Microsoft web stack world? Excited about the latest technologies and patterns? Skilled at deploying to and utilizing the richness of the Microsoft Azure Cloud? Want to collaborate on a team working with the latest Microsoft technologies in the cloud? We're looking for engineers whom are staying up to date with the heartbeat of technology.

Our five values are the heartbeat of American Auto Shield. These values are integrity, respectful, accountable, collaborative, and innovative.

The Senior DevOps Engineer earns competitive compensation from $140,000 -$160,000 annually*

Responsibilities

What you will do in this role.

• Write software, from build system automation to automated deployment, to scale our engineering delivery
• Bring in continuous deployment practices to enhance our Agile posture
• Provide technical leadership, assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for DevOps projects and initiatives
• Imagine, architect, develop, deploy, and evolve CI and CD systems for our cloud applications
• Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and services
• Write application deployment automation using industry standard deployment and configuration tools
• Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the purpose of provisioning and operating client test as well as production environments
• Provide systems support including responding to monitoring alerts
• Implement and stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling
• Work with developers to identify necessary Azure resources and automate their provisioning
• Document automation processes
• CI/CD infrastructure and process support and troubleshooting
• May assist in live site support and incident resolution

Qualifications

What you need to join our team.
Required Experience, Skills & Abilities

• 10+ years of overall professional IT experience
• 5+ years of professional DevOps engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience in continuous delivery and continuous integration of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Azure Repos, branching, code review and code analysis tools
• Proficient with Git, Git Flow, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio
• Knowledge on different monitoring and logging solutions available on Cloud, preferably on Azure
• Desire to learn and embrace cutting edge technology and techniques. Thrive working in a collaborative environment and embracing Team First spirit.
• Ability to take initiative, understand the big picture, compromise, weigh pros and cons of decisions, and assess risk.

Preferred Experience, Skills & Abilities

• Experience with C#, .NET Core / .NET 5, and TypeScript
• SalesForce Admin / DevOps Experience / Skills
• Good knowledge on PowerShell scripting
• Hands on experience on Kubernetes and containerization technologies like Docker and Azure Container Registry
• Microsoft Active Directory Experience
• Experience with package management tools (NuGet, ProGet, etc)
• Experience with SQL Server deployments through Azure

Why work for us? We are excited to provide:

• Competitive pay ranges from $140,000-$160,000/annually*
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Short/Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• Flex Spending Account
• 401 (k) - company matches 4% - fully vested when eligibility starts**
• Paid time off
• Paid Sick Time Off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Wellness program
• Employee recognition program
• Satisfaction of work with a highly skilled team that makes a big impact company-wide

Job Location
Lakewood, CO

*Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related aspects.

**Eligible the first of the month after the first 90 days

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