Spire is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in Spire's evolution in the DevOps journey. This role will be primarily responsible for playing a specialized technical role to enhance, mature, and support a wide range of applications that enable Spire's critical business processes.
Duties and Responsibilities
Understands and supports critical applications in Enterprise landscape - including but not limited to Oracle EBS, Customer Care & Billing, Maximo, Powerplan, Hyperion, Endur, and Click
Lead and oversee migration standards within shared services group, partnering with Architects to execute on vision
Leads team in release management, and application migrations within specialized area
Oversee and influence built-in quality, partnering with Quality Assurance, as it pertains to unit/developer testing
Responsible for monitoring performance issues, identifying and executing on long-term solutions
Responds, when required, to triage production issues related to integrations or scheduling operations and follow Service Level Agreement set forth
Fully imbedded in development team, and participates in all ceremonies and planning, focused on acceptance criteria that is clear, precise, and testable
Accepts work into the team backlog and owns the commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each PI.
Accountable for development and updating of technical documentation
Effectively collaborate within your specific team, as well as across agile teams to ensure alignment in dependencies, and how each team's work impacts your own
Responsible for monitoring performance issues, identifying and executing on long-term solutions to improve up-time
Responsible for optimizing, enhancing, and supporting cybersecurity protocols as it relates to the shared service application suite
Accountable for application health and version control across all non-prod environments
Essential Characteristics and Competencies
Demonstrate servant leader mindset
Ability to teach and mentor, fostering an environment of continuous learning and progress
Excellent understanding of software development life cycles
Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the ART
Ability to recognize problems and respond, systematically gather information, sort through complex issues, understand consequences of decisions, provides recommendation, and seeks input from leadership
Supervisory Responsibilities
None
Required Education (certifications, licenses)
Bachelor's degree - Computer Science, Information Technology, or Technical Engineering preferred
SAFe certification(s) a plus
Required knowledge, skill and abilities
7+ years of Weblogic and/or Websphere experience preferred
5+ years of related work experience playing an active leadership role in technology delivery and business analysis
Understanding of enterprise applications, functionality, and end to end processes, preferred but not required, in specialized application support stream (i.e Customer Facing or Internal Core Apps)
Experience with multi-tier JEE environments
Oracle Web Center Content experience is preferred
Strong knowledge in Oracle fundamentals
Experience in Oracle RAC
Experience with Linux and Windows Operation Systems
Experience developing in an agile environment a plus
Excellent understanding of the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) approach
Excellent proficiency in SQL, SQL-Plus, and CRON coding knowledge and experience
Integration services, server Administrator, Reporting Services, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Database developer, T-SQL, Clustering, and Replication
In depth understanding of Oracle database structures, theories, principles and practices, including but not limited to the creation and definition of database, database recovery procedures, and database product installation
Strong scripting experience (javaScript, XML, Python, etc.)
Strong analytical skills/capabilities to solve complicated issues arising during design and testing phases
Spire Inc.
Alabama United States
www.spireenergy.com/
