Sr. Associate DevOps Engineer (Emerging Careers)

Sr. Associate DevOps Engineer- Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina

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About the job

The Applied AI & Modeling (AAIM) Division seeks a Sr. Associate DevOps Engineer who is passionate about building high-quality tools, services, and automation that improve the developer experience.

Join AAIM Engineering to build the paved roads that let AI ship: CI/CD pipelines, telemetry, automated testing, and reliability/compliance guardrails that teams adopt to move fast safely.In this role, you’ll make immediate impact on developer productivity and delivery outcomes by strengthening the ModelOps platform that turns experiments into deployed, observable, scalable model products.

As a Sr. Associate DevOps Engineer, you will:   

• Design, develop, and maintain software, libraries, services, and developer tools that improve product quality, engineering efficiency.
• Provide customer support as needed.
• Work closely with data scientists to resolve performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues.
• Ensure quality through functional, unit, and performance testing; work closely with model/agent developers by providing feedback for testing coverage in the CI/CD flow.
• Work with AAIM engineering to research, develop, test and maintain tooling.
• Coordinate with IT, security, and platform stakeholders as needed.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required qualifications 

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 2 years of software development/programming experience.
• Experience in Python or other scripting language

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills  

• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of cloud.
• Technology Savvy- Leveraging one’s practical knowledge and understanding of recent technology tools, solutions, and trends to improve work results, solve work problems, and take advantage of new business opportunities.
• Work Standards- Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.

World-class benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include:
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

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Additional Information:

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