Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities & Qualifications

We are looking for a senior level DevOps Engineer to work collaboratively with our software development and data analytics teams to deploy and operate our systems. The Senior DevOps Engineer will build and deploy automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs. This role will also be to create and maintain tools for product deployment and system monitoring.  Responsibilities will also include troubleshooting and resolving issues in both our internal and customer environments.  This position will support all aspects of Revoro Development, Test, and Production environments in Azure.  This is a remote position. 

This person would be responsible for:

• Implementing and supporting Revoro’s applications infrastructure in Azure utilizing IaaS and PaaS Services

• Proactively identifying and reducing issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions

• Driving efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability

• Practicing sustainable incident response and retrospectives

• Adhering to company security policies and effectively control access to data

• Maintaining documentation for IT processes, procedures, automation, trouble tickets, network configurations, hardware/software inventory, and audit requests

• Off-hours and on-call work as required

• Creating and configuring Azure resources that support our custom applications.

• Collaborating with Engineering and Program Management partners to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into architectural designs and feature releases

• Continually investigating methods to improve system reliability and performance

• Automating software builds, configuration, and deployments to testing and production environments

• Managing IT related initiatives including long-duration projects across multiple departments

• Managing and prioritizing multiple related projects, including troubleshooting, operations, and maintenance of the enterprise in a team environment

• Engineer and Support complex data warehouse(s) infrastructure as well as corresponding PowerBI reports

• Creating and maintaining technical and procedural standards documentation.

• Presenting technical materials to technical audiences

Ideal candidate would possess the following skills and qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in the IT field or in a related discipline

• Minimum 5 years’ experience operating large scale distributed services

• Minimum 2 years’ experience with Microsoft Azure Resource Manager and related resources, particularly PaaS and IaaS

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• Must possess the ability to perform work in a “Dev/Ops” environment

• T-SQL knowledge is preferred

• Demonstrated scripting ability (PowerShell, Python, or R is preferred)

• A strong understanding and experience with successful implementation of system integrations (particularly using REST API's)

• Understanding of application architecture and design needed to provide operations perspective to developers and product team

• Experience with monitoring platforms

• Must possess the ability to direct and act as a resource for less experienced team members and relay necessary information as appropriate

• Experience leveraging cloud architecture, applying site reliability principles, and/or demonstrating sensitivity to operational concerns

• Full-stack troubleshooting skills across network, application, hardware, management fabric, and distributed services layers

• Knowledge of disaster recovery preparedness and response

Qualifications

This position requires:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Knowledge of the cattle industry is a plus.

• Experience with SaaS business models is a plus.

• Experience with automated deployment of client apps is a plus.

• Off-hours and on-call work as required

• Travel is expected to Adams or Revoro offices approximately one time per quarter.  

What we offer:

• Comprehensive Benefits, which begin on Day 1 of employment (including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, bonus plan, company match 401(k), and more!)

About Us:

Located in Broken Bow, Nebraska, Adams Land & Cattle (ALCC) began in 1945 as a small dairy farm on 300 acres east of Broken Bow. Today, ALCC remains family-owned, but has grown into a multi-location operation with finishing lots in Nebraska and more than one-hundred backgrounding locations throughout the US and Canada. Recognized as one of the premier cattle feeding operations in the world, ALCC is a distinguished and innovative leader in agribusiness, providing consistent and quality beef while utilizing best practices to ensure food safety, animal welfare, and environmental stewardship.

Revoro, our cattle management software, was created by Adams for other cattle feeders.  Revoro manages risk and increases profitability for the precision agriculture industry. Unlike other software solutions, Revoro delivers the technology to optimize management decisions through the entire purchase-to-slaughter cycle - at an individual animal level.  Revoro provides unparalleled reporting and predictive data analytics delivering efficiencies in production, sustainability, and animal welfare.