Lead Engineer – DevOps
JCPenney is seeking a Lead Engineer to help us manage, maintain, support, and monitor a highly reliable, scalable, and available eCommerce Cloud platform. This person will help us to push new features and bug fixes from development to production in a predictable, automated, low risk and agile manner. We are looking for candidates who are constant learners, who are self-motivated and motivate their peers, who are positive and pragmatic, who communicate and collaborate, who take responsibility and ownership, and who are driven by the quality and success of team.
If this is you, come join us!
Primary Responsibilities:
Automation of DevOps functions, including:
- Infrastructure as Code – Cloud Formation and or Terraform
- Cloud Engineering
- Expertise in handling cloud as well as On Prem workloads
- Application Deployments, Blue-Green and Canary Release Deployments
- Containerization and site reliability
- Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Persistence Engineering, Caching and Storage solutions (SQL and NoSQL databases)
- Set-up and automation of applications on public IaaS platforms and containers
- Support defects and enhancement requests in a timely fashion
- Deep Knowledge of operations engineering to innovate and influence operational approach
- Engage in PoCs of new DevOps tooling to support changing requirements
- Develop dashboards to monitor infrastructure and application
- Mentoring and training DevOps resources
- Understanding the architecture and system designing
Technical skills/ requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent
- 7+ years in DevOps functions, including strong hands on experience in:
- Python and Shell scripting
- Akamai Administration, Bot Manager
- AWS Cloud Engineering (particularly EC2, EKS,EBS, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, CloudWatch)
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins or equivalent)
- Containerization (Docker), orchestrated using Kubernetes
- Persistence Engineering (Cassandra, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, Solr, Hazelcast or equivalent)
- Netflix OSS stack (particularly Zuul and Eureka)
- Atlassian suite of products (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
- Routing traffic using HAProxy and Akamai
- Logging and monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK, Prometheus,DynatraceÃ.
- Experience supporting production platforms
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrable understanding of DevOps and Continuous Delivery
- Quick learner with a great can-do attitude, open to on and off-site training
- Prior retail eCommerce experience is a plus.
- Akamai certifications is a plus
Enjoy a rewarding career at JCPenney India, where we offer a competitive benefits package, a vibrant work environment, and the opportunity to make a difference at one of America's most iconic retailers.
- Benefits: Medical insurance coverage, Accident insurance, Life and Gratuity insurance, Employee assistance program, creche/day care support, adoption assistance program, paid leaves, maternity leave, paternity leave, bereavement leave, adoption leave, compensatory leave, free cab services (door pick up and door drop), Ekin care.
- On-site amenities: Onsite sick/wellness room, office doctor visits, cafeteria services (free lunch), tuck shop, nursing/lactation room, footstools for expecting mothers, gym, innovation lab, recreation room, vibrant co-working spaces, and meeting rooms.
- Exciting location: Our office is in one of India's largest contiguous and most-well known business parks. Spanning 15.2 msf, Embassy Manyata is in a prominent growth corridor, which connects the international airport to the city center.
- Opportunities for growth and development: We are committed to helping our employees grow their careers and develop their skills. We offer a variety of training and development programs, as well as opportunities for advancement.
- Collaborative and supportive culture: We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We encourage teamwork and collaboration, and we are always looking for ways to support our employees' success.
About JCPenney:
JCPenney is the shopping destination for diverse, working American families. With inclusivity at its core, the Company’s product assortment meets customers’ everyday needs and helps them commemorate every special occasion with style, quality and value. JCPenney offers a broad portfolio of fashion, apparel, home, beauty, and jewelry from national and private brands and provides personal services including salon, portrait and optical. The Company and its 50,000 associates worldwide serve customers where, when, and how they want to shop – from jcp.com to more than 650 stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. In 2022, JCPenney celebrates 120 years as an iconic American brand by continuing its legacy of connecting with customers through shopping and community engagement. Please visit JCPenney’s Newsroom to learn more and follow JCPenney on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
For more opportunities to join our team please visit our careers page.
