Senior DevOps Engineer - SRE Group Cubic Corporation
San Diego, CA

Job Description

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We're the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in an innovative environment, we want to talk to you about your next role at Cubic! We are seeking employees inspired by technology and motivated by the rewards of hard work, commitment, teamwork, quality, integrity, and respect. We invite you to explore opportunities with Cubic.

Job Details:

Job Description

At Cubic we're changing the way people travel - to work, to school, to wherever they want or need to go, and home again. Come join our team of data experts as we build innovative technologies and leverage the latest data science techniques to tackle transportation's most pressing challenges. As a global company our work impacts the lives of millions of people around the world in cities like London, New York, Sydney, and many more. Cubic is the analytics center of excellence and we are using data to optimize transit networks, reduce road congestion, improve the travel experience, and minimize each city's carbon footprint.

You will collaborate with a diverse group of talented professionals who are as passionate about their work as you are, and are committed to delivering only the highest quality solutions. We are an agile team and this means you're empowered to deliver the best results, have the opportunity to influence all aspects of the business, and know that each contribution you make is significant. In an industry where Cubic is a world leader, we're driving a paradigm shift in how transportation services are planned, delivered, and consumed to better meet the needs of an increasing and ever-more concentrated urban population. Don't take a backseat. Join Cubic and be instrumental in driving the future of travel.

This position works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Cubic Transportation Systems is transforming the way we develop, build, and release software, and we're looking for people who are passionate about DevOps.

We're evaluating every aspect of the software release life cycle across the organization including: VCS branching strategies, IaC for build and release infrastructure, CI/CD automation, binary packaging, artifact storage, containerized platforms, and cloud services.

We currently use a combination of Ansible, Jenkins, Azure, Artifactory, and on-premises infrastructure to deliver our Java, Angular, C, and C++ products and services. We're looking to refine our use of these tools, develop standard practices, transition to contemporary build and release methodologies, and improve our time to production.

Some of your duties and responsibilities will include:

* Recommending and maturing best practices and tools
* Analyzing and improving existing build and release lifecycles.
* Configuring Jenkins and build executors, developing Jenkinsfiles, configuring Jenkins projects, multibranch pipeline configurations, troubleshooting failed builds.
* Configuring networks, subnets, and firewall rules for both Azure and/or on-premises infrastructure.
* Configuring, administering, and troubleshooting *nix operating systems including block device management, partioning, LVM, SNMP, init.d and systemd services, application configuration, etc.
* Developing builds, pipelines, and storage solutions for dependency libraries and build binaries using Jenkins, Artifactory, Azure Storage, Maven, etc.
* Writing configuration management code for Ansible, Chef, ARM.
* Writing container code for Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes.
* Writing shell scripts for Bash.
* Working with other departments to requisition and configure new Azure and/or on-premises infrastructure.
* Creating infrastructure, application, and product diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
* Training and mentoring of software development teams on build and release best practices using Slack, Skype for Business.
* Secrets management using Ansible Vault, Azure Key Vault.
* Azure administration and infrastructure development using Azure Portal, ARM templates, Ansible.
* Nginx and Apache web server configuration and administration.
* Oracle Database and PostgreSQL configuration and administration.
* WebLogic Server and Apache Tomcat application server configuration and administration.
* Bash script development and *nix system administration using the terminal, PuTTY, MobaXterm.
* Infrastructure administration and development using VirtualBox and operating system images.

Minimum Job Requirements:

* 4 year degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field;.
* 3 years of direct experience in Software Development, Networking or System Administration role.
* Able to communicate effectively and understand people, culture, and how large organizations operate.
* Substantial experience working on the command line with a 'nix flavor or equivalent.
* Experience scripting and automating deployments and management of IT solutions.
* History of building process and repeatability into your work products.
* Broad understanding of tools and technologies with a preference for Azure, Jenkins, Bitbucket/Git, and Kubernetes/Helm.
* Source Control (Git, Bitbucket)
* Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Bamboo, VSTS )
* Infrastructure Automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
* Deployment Automation & Orchestration (Jenkins, VSTS, Octopus)
* Container Concepts (LXD, Docker)
* Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)
* Cloud (AWS, Azure, GoogleCloud, Openstack)


* Build and deployment of cloud based and hybrid-cloud solutions with Jenkins, Git.
* Strong operational experience in Linux/Unix environment and scripting (Python, Perl, Shell).

Worker Type:

Employee