Location: Hybrid in Charlotte or Detroit – 3 days a week in office, two days remote. Interview Process: Initial phone screen, followed by a Zoom interview Top 3 Soft Skills: • Collaboration skills – work with members both inside and outside team to determine the best solutions for our needs • Problem solving skills – ability to think outside the box and create customer solutions for unique problems • Communication skills – able to communicate status of work, document workflows, communicate process to dev teams Top 3 Hard Skills: • Scripting Languages such as bash/go/python • Ability to create/modify pipelines with platforms like github/gitlab/circleci • Strong debugging skills, Able to debug issues identified in cloud pipelines
Job Description:
As a DevOps Engineer within Digital Core Technology, you will be responsible for the production health of our mobile and web applications. This includes designing technology approaches that automate and modernize our application stack as well as enabling our Agile teams to deliver with quality and speed.
The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, especially when it comes to the benefits and opportunities cloud infrastructure brings to an Enterprise. In this role, you'll be asked to provide in-depth technical expertise on decisions pertaining to running complex software systems at scale. You'll partner with our Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure teams to enable flexible applications patterns driven by business use cases. Most importantly, you'll be an integral part of Ally's technology strategy, partnering closely with our applications teams to translate business requirements into scalable, flexible and secure cloud solutions.
The Work:
Architect and design applications supporting the entire mobile space
Create technical designs (Activity Diagrams/Sequence Diagrams, API service specifications, and message models) through a close partnership with Enterprise Architecture, Application Development teams, Infrastructure teams, and other support teams across Ally Support a large team of digital engineers, ensuring they have the proper tools and knowledge to work to their maximum potential
Provide technical leadership and guidance during development, testing, and delivery of features
Experience leading and influencing individuals at multiple levels, encouraging the establishment of high performing and self-sustaining cross-functional teams
Review business and non-functional requirements to capture and understand project requirements
Challenge the status quo to breakthrough legacy thought processes, and drive Ally's technology forward to match best-in-class technology organizations
Ability to be flexible and support any aspect of the Digital organization on-demand, including product, development, delivery, and production support
Knowledge of industry-leading application trends and help development teams incorporate modern approaches into Digital application roadmaps
Provide expertise and feedback into Agile Operating Model, ensuring that methodology enables all aspects of our technology strategy
Assess and provide recommendations on organizational responsibilities as Ally shifts left and migrate applications to the cloud
Ability to influence and guide product solutions with technology best practices
Ability to effectively communicate technical solutions and recommendations to senior-level management
Skill/Experience/Education:
Mandatory Skills:
• Experience maintaining large code repositories contributed to by multiple teams
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like self-hosted GItLab CI/CD or Github Actions
• Experience building and releasing compiled applications in cloud environments
• Strong skills in working with Docker containers
• Strong skills in scripting languages like Bash, Python, and Go
• Experience designing and delivering applications using cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure
• Able to work with engineering teams on projects with deep dives into code, networking, and systems administration in cloud environments
Desired Skills:
• Experience working with Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and the deployment processes associated with them
• Experience with configuration of Android applications, familiarity with Gradle files and the Android SDK
• Experience with configuration of iOS applications and iOS SDK
• Experience with configuration of Javascript applications, Typescript, bundlers, testing frameworks
• Experience in application-layer tools for the above platforms like Jetpack Compose, SwiftUI, and/or React Native