DevOps Engineer

Werfen is a growing, family-owned, innovative company founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain. We are a worldwide leader in specialized diagnostics in the areas of Hemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity, and Transplant. Through our Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) business line, we research, develop, and manufacture customized assays and biomaterials. We operate directly in 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors.

Our Headquarters and Technology Centers are located in the US and Europe, and our workforce is more than 7,000 strong.

A Dev Ops engineer is an IT professional who must have a broad knowledge of both development and operations, including coding, infrastructure management, systems administration and Dev Ops tool chains. Dev Ops engineers must also possess interpersonal skills, since as a business partner they collaborate with the different squads in the company that develop software solutions, as well as with other business partners within the company.

Dev Ops engineers must have a solid understanding of software architecture, CI/CD/CT concepts, but must also have experience with traditional developer toolsets and practices, such as using source code control, performing and receiving code reviews, running unit tests, and familiarity with agile principles.

Key Accountabilities

Be a key part of a team where you will:

• Responsible, in coordination with the Squads, for identifying, coordinating, implementing and maintaining automations on repetitive tasks to streamline the software delivery process. This includes automating code builds, testing, deployments and infrastructure provisioning.
• Responsible, in coordination with the Squads, for identifying, coordinating, implementing and maintaining continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD/CT) needs in accordance with specific software lifecycle triggers.
• Identify and promote harmonization on Dev Ops techniques applied to different solutions.
• Foster the Dev Ops culture to the Squads to have a better control and quality of the developed software, being the bridge between the squads and other business partners such as QA, Cyber Security or Service to automate the quality requirements to be met by the solutions.
• Oversee and maintain Dev Ops systems, to ensure Dev Ops services are running as expected in a secure (cybersecurity) environment.
• Contribute to the identification and maintenance of the Dev Ops environment to ensure alignment with security requirements in the authoring of official releases (for those solutions using it).
• Participate in the design and develop the roadmap of CI/CD/CT Dev Ops centralization in the company Solutions.
• Participate in the design and develop the roadmap of CI/CD/CT Dev Ops platforms and tools, as well as the lifecycle of these platforms.
• Coordinate and supervise external Dev Ops services.

Networking/Key relationships

• This position requires working closely with all software solutions squads to support CI/CD needs for each solution.
• This position also requires close collaboration with the IT department to coordinate IT hosting and networking required in the deployment of Dev Ops solutions.
• This position also requires close collaboration and coordination with other Dev Ops departments from other Werfen manufacturing companies.
• In addition, it also works with external Dev Ops tools providers to enhance the specialization and quality of the services provided.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience required for the position:

• Experience:
  
  A minimum of 3 years as a Dev Ops Engineer.

Additional Knowledge:

• Familiarity and understanding of the Dev Ops Tool Chain.
• Knowledge with git and workflows.
• Working knowledge in Continuous Integration including deep knowledge in Jenkins, Artifactory and Sonar Qube.
• Good knowledge of Configuration Management & Deployment automation.
• Knowledge with Containers and Infrastructure Orchestration.
• Knowledge in observability techniques and tools.
• Knowledge on operating systems and its configuration as well as virtualization and containers.
• Excellent understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge in Cyber-security by design techniques.
• Kno…