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DevOps Coach,Principal IT Engineer
Oakland, CA

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Description:

As a DevOps Principal Engineer, you will be

responsible for design and architecture of DevOps pipelines to accelerate

application delivery. You will be a Lead engineer to help KP scale DevOps

practices throughout our IT Teams. DevOps is, and will continue to be, a

strategic initiative to accelerate our application delivery and improve

quality. Primary focus this year will be on integrating IT Operations functions

into pipelines and our internal security scanning capabilities. In

the role you will be a key leader allowing us to build a core enablement team

that will continue to standardize DevOps practices for IT, build reusable components,

accelerate DevOps adoption.

This senior level employee is primarily responsible for translating business requirements and functional specifications into software solutions, for contributing to and leveraging the technical direction for the development of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions, and for serving as a technical expert for project teams while providing consultation to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed.

Essential Responsibilities:

Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.

Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.

Provides insight into recommendations for technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.

Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.

Ensures appropriate translation of business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.

Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.

Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions.

Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders.

Recommends complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.

Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.

Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues.

Provides implementation and post-implementation triage and support of business software solutions by programming and/or configuring enhancements to new or packaged-based systems and applications.

Reviews and validates technical specifications and documentation.

Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions to support technical solutions while incorporating architectural designs.

Supports component integration testing (CIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) for application initiatives by providing triage, attending test team meetings, keeping the QC up-to-date, performing fixes and unit testing, providing insight to testing teams in order to ensure the appropriate depth of test coverage, and supporting the development of proper documentation.

Leads systems incident support and troubleshooting for complex and non-complex issues.

Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation.

Develops and validates complex testing scenarios to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications.

Participates in all software development lifecycle phases by applying comprehensive understanding of company methodology, policies, standards, and internal and external controls.

Develops, configures, or modifies basic to moderately complex integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by designing and coding component-based applications using programming languages.

Provides consultation to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures.

Builds partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specifications.

Leads the development, validation, and execution of testing scenarios to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications.

Leads, mentors, and trains other technical resources to develop software applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum five (5) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

Two (2) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above) Four (4) years experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions. Four (4) years experience with engineering tools such as bug tracking and source code control systems. Three (3) years experience in a leadership role of a large matrixed organization. Four (4) years experience working with an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework. Three (3) years of IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization. Three (3) years experience developing and/or implementing mobile applications. Three (3) years experience working with Git source code control. Three (3) years experience in test-driven application development. Three (3) years development experience integrating with 3rd party systems. Three (3) years of development experience with Agile Methodology Three (3) years of development experience with AIX Three (3) years of development experience using DevOps Three (3) years of development experience with Git

Primary Location: California,Oakland,2101 Webster 2101 Webster St. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri Working Hours Start: 9:00 AM Working Hours End: 5:00 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: Salaried, Non-Union, Exempt Job Level: Individual Contributor Job Category: Information Technology Specialty: IT ENG Applications Department: DevOps Enablement Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, including but not limited to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.

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