Engineer, IT Engineering IV

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

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Summary:

In this role, you will provide an essential part of the DevOps workflow for critical product teams to provide technical expertise and leadership in DevOps methodology including; Kubernetes, Docker, SDLC, CI/CD, Cloud, Microservice Design, Agile Software Development, Application Profiling, Monitoring & Observability, and SRE response for our Digital Electronics software vertical. Your technical choices will create a pattern for other groups and products to model for implementation of best practices and ensure a comprehensive and complete DevOps methodology for the business. The contributions made on an individual level will greatly impact the DevOps strategy for the Wabtec business.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support and improve tooling for continuous build, automated testing and release management

• Ability to build, maintain, and run workloads on Kubernetes orchestration systems using docker

• Knowledge and practical experience of cloud tooling and best practices (AWS preferred)

• Make technology choices at an individual product level and has the ability to analyze and measure impact

• Profile build processes and identify bottlenecks

• Demonstrate expertise in writing scripts to automate tasks

• Implements Continuous Integration/Deployment build principles

• Provide expertise in quality engineering, test planning and testing methodology for a software project

• Help businesses develop an overall strategy for deploying code

• Be an expert at applying principles of SDLC and agile methodologies

• Build and maintain documentation related to build processes and product environmental configurations

• Supervisory Responsibilities

  • Participate in hiring and recruitment efforts, including interviews for employees in the DevOps Architecture department.

• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications_:_ (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

• Degree Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree
• Professional Technical Experience: 5+ Years
• Linux Experience: 4+ Years
• CI/CD Experience: 4+ Years
• Docker Experience: 3+ Years
• Kubernetes Experience: 2+ Years
• Python, Shell, or Bash Scripting Experience: 2+ Years

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with creating and maintaining automated build and configuration management tools (Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform or Gitlab preferred)

• Expertise in full docker container lifecycle from Dockerfile best practices to Kubernetes pod execution

• Proposes new solutions for CI/CD based on research and synthesis of best practices

• Able to balance value propositions of modern tools and integration in product teams for attributable business value

• Has a strong understanding of the TCO of a product and is sensitive to tool selection and integration to keep costs low

• Influences through others and can create a coalition of support for new and modifications to current processes

• Taps upon organizational knowledge to prevent rework and rework

• Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills

• Demonstrates a passion and drive for self-improvement of technical skillsets

• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices

• Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address possible blockers or problems in product teams

Physical Demands:

• Employee is regularly required to talk and hear
• Employee is regularly required to work on sedentary work that primarily involves sitting and typing for long periods of time
• Employee is regularly required to perform repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

Work Environment:

• The employee may be required to work in a temperature-controlled office environment, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment.

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.