Senior DevOps Engineer

Since 2012, we've grown to become one of the leading single-family rental companies and homebuilders in the country, recently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Great Place To Work®.  At AMH, our goal is to simplify the experience of leasing a home through professional management and maintenance support, so our residents can focus on what really matters to them, wherever they are in life. 

The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for ensuring seamless continuity between Software Development, Infrastructure, and IT Operational Teams. Ensures the quality, integrity, security, stability, and overall maintenance of the release pipelines. Also responsible for the selection and implementation of tools and processes which enable rapid development and deployment of software. Embraces continuous integration/deployment in a delivery pipeline that will perform automated quality checks, deploy cloud infrastructure and applications quickly, and provide operational metrics that can be consumed by development teams. Supports all areas of the application release and deployment cycle and must be able to work in a cross-functional team environment and collaborate effectively to deliver and maintain solutions. Manages projects/processes, works independently with limited supervision. May coach and review the work of lower-level staff. Problems faced are difficult and sometimes complex.

Responsibilities: 

• Establishes and configures deployment containers, automate deployments, maintain scripts and/or configurations used for environment monitoring and task automation.
• Establishes, maintains, and deploys new and/or existing infrastructure resources, azure components, and networking.
• Participates and facilitates release and change management processes, including the development and execution of test scripts, implementation plans, validation plans and rollback plans.
• Ensures compliance, security, roles, and access to assigned application set in conjunction with IT controls and standards.
• Provides solution guidance for different scenarios on outages and various problems, incidents and/or opportunities that may be presented to the team.
• Creates process documentation, procedures, and policies. Keeps documentation up to date and works with IT teams to address concerns and maintain dictated standards within the application set responsible.
• Acts in responsible manner to control costs while deploying solutions, using best practices for cloud resource management.

Requirements: 

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in, Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, and/or related field preferred or equivalent work experience. 
• Minimum five (5) years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer in software development and/or infrastructure.
• Minimum five (5) years of working experience creating, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Minimum of three (3) years working experience with software development release tools; containers, scripting, and workflows, preferred docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Azure DevOps. Knowledge and experience with container technologies. Administering and maintaining Azure cloud resources – specifically – Virtual Machines, App Services, Functions, Azure SQL Database, Virtual Network, Azure DNS, ADLS, Cosmos DB, AppInsights, Key Vault, Application Gateways, API Management, Front Door, and Batch.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Exceptional troubleshooting and solutioning skills
• Must be able to quickly assess complex programming applications.
• Must be able to lift/carry 20 pounds waist height.

Compensation

The anticipated pay range/scale for this position is $105,322.00 to $131,652.00 Annually. Actual starting base pay within this range will depend on factors including geographic location, education, training, skills, and relevant experience.

Additional Compensation

This position is eligible to receive a discretionary annual bonus.

Perks and Benefits

Employees have the opportunity to participate in medical, dental and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts and/or health savings accounts; dependent savings accounts; 401(k) with company matching contributions; employee stock purchase plan; and a tuition reimbursement program. The Company provides 9 paid holidays per year, and, upon hire, new employees will accrue paid time off (PTO) at a rate of 0.0577 hours of PTO per hour worked, up to a maximum of 120 hours per year.

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