Job Title: Systems Engineer III - DevOps Engineer (Infrastructure Management)
Location: Hybrid Richfield, MN
Duration: Long Term
Start Date: Immediate
Tell us about your department:
We are Infrastructure Platform Foundations team dedicated to platform automation and maintain operational excellence at BestBuy. Our culture emphasizes creativity, teamwork, and continuous learning.
Project Description:
Focuses on building automation tools that streamline AWS and On-Prem infrastructure management. These tools aim to reduce infrastructure sprawl, enforce consistent practices, and enhance visibility across the organization. By embedding governance, security, and cost control into the platform, we empower teams to operate efficiently and securely within a scalable cloud environment.
Position Summary/Job Description:
- Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform.
- Manage configuration management using Chef.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines processes.
- Define best practices for cloud security, monitoring, cost, and optimizations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure and services.
- Stay updated with AWS services, features, and industry trends to recommend improvements.
- On-call support for escalations and incidents.
Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
- 10+ years as a proven System Engineer, Platform Engineer, or DevOps Engineer focused on building platform automation tools and maintaining AWS infrastructure.
- 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- 5+ years of experience building CI/CD pipelines using DevOps practices.
- 3+ years of experience with Configuration Management (Chef or Ansible).
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and scalability concepts in cloud environments.
- Effective collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
- Direct Experience in building Internal Developer Platforms.
- Experience building applications using programming languages python, ruby, node or java.
- Experience working with ServiceNow, particularly with CMDB.
- Understanding container technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, EKS.
- Knowledge on Backstage Developer Portal for unified platform creation.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and software development life cycle (SDLC).
- AWS certification (e.g. AWS solution architect).
Interview Process Overview:
- Group and team fit interview.
- Technical aptitude interview.
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