Sr. Lead Software Engineer, App DevOps Team

nality. This is a DevOps team, so the team provides 24/7 on call operational support for all developed solutions. The leader of this will need to ensure the team designs for failure and intensely addresses root cause and fixes issues to ensure the operational load stays low on the team as the system load and complexity increases.

This team works closely with multiple business partners, product owners, designers, and front-end engineering teams to create and support impactful products.

About Chick-fil-A Supply and Bay Center Foods

As wholly owned subsidiaries of Chick-fil-A, Inc., Chick-fil-A Supply and Bay Center Foods are food production and distribution services networks focused entirely on serving the unique needs and growing volume of Chick-fil-A restaurants.

The Chick-fil-A Supply and Bay Center Foods service networks are comprised of three components:
Distribution Center - State-of-the-art warehouses that house supply for Chick-fil-A restaurants
Production Distribution Center - Offsite facilities that prepare select ingredients and menu items for Chick-fil-A restaurants

Transportation - Growing fleet of delivery vehicles that supply Chick-fil-A restaurants

Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture decisions for the team's product

• Lead delivery and operations of the team's product, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your team's engineers. We desire our lead engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending about half of their time on leading others and half contributing engineering work themselves.

• Lead, mentor, and assess other staff engineers, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve knotty problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories

• Interview, select, onboard, and oversee contract engineers

• Assist in the design and delivery of products outside of your team, develop tools and processes for use outside of your team, and/or mentor other engineers or especially lead engineers outside of your team

• Guide partner-led engineering workstreams, contributing to solution design and code reviews

• Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards

• Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches

• Drive Operational and Engineering Excellence for the DevOps team.

• Gain deep understanding of business processes across Supply Chain so the team can maximize impact and operate at a high level.

Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is sharedamongst the team members to coverweekends and weeknights. The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.

Required Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities)

• High School Diploma or equivalency

• Experience designing complex software solutions

• Expert-level knowledge indesign and programmingusing Python and/or Golang

• Experience designing and implementing cloud-based API's.

• Experience with SQL and data modeling.

• Experience implementing application security, software design patterns, and the SDLC.

• Experience developing and deploying applications with Kubernetes and AWS Cloud infrastructure.

• Experience mentoring and leading a team

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment

• 4+ years relevant work experience in a similar role.

Preferred Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities)

• Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired

• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, Scrum discipline, or comparable software development practices

• Deep understanding of AWS technologies and cloud native architecture.

• Experience with multi-region deployments and the associated complexities and tradeoffs.

• Deep knowledge and experience programming with Python and Go.

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and CNCF related technologies

• Experience with monitoring and alerting technologies and SRE concepts.

• Experience working with an agile development methodology featuring sprints, points estimation, and daily standups

• Experience in design, data collection, and data analysis

• 7+ years relevant work experience

Required Years of Experience

4

Travel Requirements

5%

Required Level of Education

High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Level of Education

Bachelor's Degree

Major/Concentration

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related technical or engineering fields.

Relocation Assistance Provided

No