DevOps Engineer

The opportunity:

Identification, exploration and implementation of technology / product development and growth strategies to enhance and secure global positioning. Ensure project execution, foster innovation and develop and secure R&D capabilities in the business for profitability.  Devising research methods, focus on future technical direction, future scenarios in transforming technology landscape. Preparing technical specifications and specifying laboratory test equipment and processes.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Build, operate, and maintain the CI/CD tool chain, in particular Azure DevOps, to achieve reliable and stable releases.

• Create and maintain installation packages (msi, exe) using WiX technology.

• Constantly removing any manual CM processes and establish fully automated Configuration Management, Build & Release Management, and Continuous Integrations.

• Installs and configures configuration management (CM) tools/software.

• Monitors and tunes the installations as appropriate and perform any required data migration and configuration management tasks.

• Develops tools/utilities/scripts to assist in CM tasks.

• Develop and document the continuous deployment build and release process.

• Learn, evaluates & recommends new technologies and automation opportunities.

• Smoke testing builds for accuracy and completeness and troubleshoot build and release issues.

• Interact with various global product teams to meet their specific needs and advise development teams on SW configuration management/branching and test automation strategies

• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business

Your Background:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science / Engineering.

• Should have 5 to 7 years of practical experience as a DevOps Engineer.

• Hands-on implementation experience with software configuration management and release systems for large SW projects (Azure DevOps, GIT, MS Build, PowerShell, NuGet, Sonarcloud, code review tools, unit testing frameworks for C++ and C#, installer/packagers.

• In-depth and working knowledge to create installation packages using WiX technology is mandatory.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Technology based development.

• Working knowledge of creating builds and build automation using Azure DevOps pipelines.

• Troubleshooting experience – individual must be able to quickly diagnose issues reported by production and non-production users and provide resolution.

• Experience with scripting for automated installation/maintenance/builds of applications.

• Good knowledge of batch scripting using Power shell, VB and/or Python etc.