DevOps Lead

SunStream is Searching for a DevOps Lead to Join Our Team

SunStream Business Services is a new Fin-Tech company created by our customers, for our customers – the people who support the farmers and ranchers of America who feed the world.  The technology industry and the Ag-Fin landscape is rapidly changing.  For us to enable and elevate our customer’s business technologies, we have embarked upon a transformation, one that will change the way we deliver solutions, build connected relationships with customers, and execute as a high performing team. We are looking for teammates who are humble, hungry, and smart, and willing to challenge conventional thinking.

What Success Looks Like at SunStream

Successful team members will focus on priorities, communicate with intention, listen with curiosity, and collaborate with others who have diverse opinions, experiences, and ideas.

We’re looking for team members who are:

• Recognized as the “go to person” in their area of expertise
• Skilled collaborators who understand the importance of connected relationships
• Practiced at problem solving and decision making in a fast-moving environment with an agile mindset
• A valued member of a high performing team
• Passionate about improvement with a growth mindset and active engagement in driving continuous improvement

Our Core Values

What we do at SunStream is incredibly important to us, but how we achieve success as One Team, is driven by our core values.  We believe our core values act as success factors in supporting transformation.

Essential Duties

• Orchestrates public and private cloud infrastructure utilizing automation and continuously improving the process. Automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment cycles through authored scripts for configuration and provisioning.  Achieve maximum system automation and integration through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Web Services and scripting technologies and tools. Develop and employ continuous delivery system practices via cloud services and infrastructure.
• Execute and automate Continuous Integrations pipelines for various development projects using a core suite of tools. Monitors, scales, and optimizes distributed services in the cloud infrastructure.  Integrates closely with enterprise solution development teams on identifying, problem solving and resolving issues that impact software releases and service delivery
• Develops and implements technical standards, procedures, and techniques for the resolution of Enterprise IT system problems to ensure maximum application availability and performance.   Develop proof of concepts architecture for application and automation initiatives. Drives new ideas and innovative solutions to resolve problems.
• Engages with other engineering teams to improve the lifecycle of services on our platforms. Collaborates with other IT and non-IT related professionals such as Developers, Architects, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and business leaders.
• Provides direct support of enterprise infrastructure including cloud computing solutions, Enterprise Service Integrations, Azure Service Bus. Orchestrates compute legacy environments.
• Configures and integrates custom and 3rd party applications and add-ons.  Regular review of alerts, logs, and performance. Works with end-users, Microsoft Support, and other vendors in resolution of support issues as needed.
• Participates in scheduled and unscheduled weekend/after-hours system maintenance and support.  Performs rotational on-call duty.
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

Technical Skills

• Advanced Scripting Skills (PowerShell, Python, Terraform and other IaC languages)
• Management of Public Cloud Offerings (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS)
• Microsoft Windows and Non-WinOS such as Linux Server administration
• Troubleshooting of complex distributed environments
• Ability to use and implement automation tools, processes and IaC
• Strong performance tuning expertise
• Azure Data Integration Technology
• Azure Service Bus and Azure Data Factory
• Public Cloud Data Technology

Education/Certifications

Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, equivalent work history/experience or working towards achieving a degree  

Experience     

• Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure, network and directory services required
• 5 years – IaC Technologies leveraging Terraform (eg. ADO, Pipelines, Git, YAML)
• 5 years – Orchestration and containerization using Kubernetes
• 5 years – API Integration of infrastructure systems such as Azure, ServiceNow, Active Directory.
• 4 years – Azure Public Cloud Solutions
• Experience with Azure Data Integration Technologies (Azure Service Bus/Azure Data Factory) is a plus
• Site Reliability Engineering and ITIL framework
• Identity Management SSO/MFA is a plus
• Experience working in an Agile framework. SAFe experience is a plus.

Leadership/Soft Skills

• Experience in team collaboration – Required
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills – Required
• Exceptional analytical and process development skills – Required

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process may contact us through the following methods: Phone: 651-282-8572 or Mail: SunStream, Attn: Talent Recruiting, 30 E 7th Street, Suite 700, St. Paul, MN 55101.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. SunStream will not sponsor a work visa to fill this position.

SunStream Business Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer (M/W/D/V) dedicated to diversity in the workplace and offers a great work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.