Basic Function
We are looking for a build/release automation developer to join our Devops Automation Tools team and work on writing ci/cd pipeline software covering our applications, testing, security scanning, and infrastructure building operations for both on premise and in cloud systems . This is an opportunity to build your knowledge of software development practices, software lifecycle processes and automation tools to improve the productivity and day to day workload for all of the development teams across Wolters Kluwer Clinical Effectiveness. This position is part of an established team, and will have opportunities to learn about a wide range of technologies in cloud computing, containerization, configuration/infrastructure as code, and Jenkins automation.
Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer's market leading information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever more dynamic world. Wolters Kluwer combines deep domain knowledge with specialized technology. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way we do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right.
Duties And Responsibilities
- You will join a cross-functional, highly skilled DevOps team, whose projects accelerate the development, testing, and continuous delivery of a microservices platform and a portfolio of products.
- You will create Jenkins automation to support Build, Release, Test Automation, and Security functions across our platforms via Jenkins PipelineDSL and JobDSL
- You will support our Jenkins Server infrastructure via writing Infrastructure as Code automation for setup, configuration, and maintenance of our server tool suite
- You will help create our build and deployment tools for creating and managing Docker images, and automating deployments to various Kubernetes systems, both on premise and in the Cloud
- While building and deploying microservice artifacts and images, you will develop and maintain "best practices" tools to support our microservice platform.
- Working with technology leaders, you will help implement the "Journey to Cloud" for our products.
- Until the transition to our new platform is complete, you will continue to extend the functionality and code quality of our existing toolset.
- You will support the high performance and stability of our product developer, test, and production environments.
- You will support and extend our security scanning automation, including both static code scans and compliance/malware scans.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field.
1 or more years of software development experience.
1 or more years of build, release, or test automation experience.
Some experience developing, deploying, and supporting Azure and/or AWS containers.
Tech
You are familiar with, and able to demonstrate understanding of:
- Build, release, test automation tools and process (preferably experience with Jenkins)
- One or more Java dialects that emphasize functional programming and syntactic conciseness (Groovy preferred)
- Linux environments and troubleshooting in production
- Docker or other container solutions
- Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise, Azure Kubernetes or equivalent Container Orchestration environments
- Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Chef
- The similarities and differences between Production and testing regions or environments.
- One or more complex software architectures, with the ability to enhance, support, and troubleshoot those architectures.
Team Fit
- You are enthusiastic: a high-energy, passionate advocate for delivering value.
- You are practical: balancing what has worked previously with openness to creative thinking.
- You are agile: committed to delivering product increments continuously, reliably, and quickly.
- You are versatile: focusing on details, while at the same time maintaining the "big picture" view.
- You are situationally aware: noticing differences and issues as they arise, and escalating immediately and appropriately.
- You are flexible: able to dynamically adjust your approach, plans, and code to meet changing business needs.
- You are helpful: willing to participate in troubleshooting and ad hoc issues that can use your expertise
- You are straightforward: with a strong desire to bring appropriate transparency to all stakeholders.
- You are fearless: willing to convey issues and drawbacks to stakeholders at all levels.