DevOps Supervisor

Company: Kimball Midwest
Location: Columbus
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Kimball Midwest, a national distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation products, is searching for a DevOps Supervisor who will be the leader within our cloud infrastructure group and work hands-on in Azure. You will drive the process for rapid CI/CD pipelines to production. This role will partner with the scrum product teams to set direction and engineering leadership to drive key initiatives, continuously looking for opportunities to automate and apply new Microsoft Azure features.

Here at Kimball Midwest, we have a passion for coming together from a wide range of backgrounds to solve incredibly complex problems with incredibly simple solutions. As a Kimball Midwest employee, you will experience why we have been listed as one of the Top Workplaces in Columbus 9 years in a row! Having grown from $1 million in sales in 1983 to over $350 million today, we are the fastest growing national distributor of MRO parts to the Industrial/Government/Heavy Equipment/Fleet/Auto repair markets. Throughout all our growth we have kept the family owned and operated culture alive. At Kimball Midwest, you are a name and not a number and we pride ourselves on our unique culture.

Our DevOps Supervisor Will Be Responsible For The Following
Hire, mentor, coach, and supervise a team of DevOps engineers.
Create, document, improve, and oversee administration of DevOps practices and processes.
Take complete ownership of the technical implantation of projects
Stay abreast of all DevOps engineers, their projects, and prioritize statuses.
Instill a culture of innovation and automation amongst the DevOps team.
Champion the DevOps culture within IT.
Lead a team that helps support the company's application suite via break/fix support, code deployments, trend analysis, and ensuring scalability.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a computer related field, or relevant certifications and supporting work experience.
Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes
Familiarity with agile software development best practices
Experience with object-oriented and scripting languages; preferably C#, JavaScript and PowerShell
Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins. Azure DevOps experience preferred.
Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Terraform and Bicep.
Collaborates with others to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem.
Performs incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline execution and minimize errors encountered.
Detail and process-oriented with conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills and the ability to make recommendations for improvement.
The ability to offer recommendations of corrective action for identified deficiencies as needed, as well monitoring the corrective action process.
The ability to analyze existing systems to create architecture documentation that outlines the as-is, transitions and to-be states, along with written and oral communication of the plan to technical and business stakeholders.
Solution, technical and enterprise architecture certification(s) preferred but not required.
Must have excellent interpersonal skills.
Ability to rapidly accumulate in-depth company and industry knowledge.
Self-motivated working ability with minimal supervision or direction.
Must have a "can-do" attitude. Is flexible to work outside of normal business hours.
This position requires the execution of an Employment Agreement contract between Kimball Midwest and the employee.
Additional Information

We offer a benefits package that includes health, dental and vision insurance, company sponsored life, optional life and disability insurance, Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts, a 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan, Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off (PTO), a business casual dress code and paid holidays.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets

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