DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer NextEra Energy is seeking a well-qualified candidate who is passionate about driving the clean energy revolution by providing solar companies with innovative software. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be asked to:

Participate in an on-call schedule to respond to critical system alerts

Build and maintain infrastructure as code configurations supporting the cloud architecture for all deployed services

Design, build, and maintain cloud architectures for application services, distributed systems, data pipelines, and data warehouses

Design, build, and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure and application services

Develop and administer cybersecurity processes, including infrastructure and application security and device access controls

This position will be responsible for building and maintaining the NextEra DevOps stack including CI / CD, infrastructure as code, cloud and application monitoring, and cybersecurity compliance. The role will require hands on experience with AWS cloud services and distributed, serverless architectures. This role will interface closely with the full technical team, working collaboratively to enhance day-to-day engineer productivity through enhanced development tooling.

Job Duties

Work very closely with NextEra engineering team to understand developer workflows and build tools to enhance developer productivity

Support new hire onboarding IT needs, including controlling access to vendors and services and configuring local development environment

Participate in DevOps on-call schedule to monitor and respond to critical system alerts

Build and maintain CI / CD pipelines in GitHub Actions

Develop and maintain resilience strategies and coordinate disaster preparedness

Peer review code and adhere to company coding standards and best practices

Preferred Qualifications

3+ years of DevOps engineering experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Experience with CI / CD, AWS, GitHub Actions, Scripting, Atlassian Tools (Jira), Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes

Experience scaling monolithic and microservice-oriented production applications in AWS

Experience supporting data pipelines for AI or data warehousing applications

Job Overview

This position serves as a Subject Matter Expert and is responsible for managing, monitoring, and deploying a highly available, highly scalable production application. The individual will be responsible for one or more environments and/or systems and interface directly with the Development and Operations team on a daily basis for the maintenance, expansion, and documentation of these environments, providing assistance and review of proposed architectures, as needed. This role is responsible for vetting emerging technologies and guides the direction of the teams that support software development.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Drives the automation and continuous improvement of the software delivery process

Manages the continuous integration services maintenance and configuration, ensuring the build environment is meeting the needs of the software developers

Leads the maintenance and creation of automatic deployment of software builds to the test and production environments, enabling the operations team to easily and consistently deploy new software products

Monitors system development and maintenance and ensures that staff at all technical levels are informed of the health of our systems

Evaluates Operation teams processes and automates repetitive and temporary solutions

Improves the product environment and practices used by the software developers