COMPANY DESCRIPTION

“We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder

Global supply chain management is what we do, but at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics.

• 18,000 trained professionals
• 350+ locations worldwide across 60+ countries
• Fortune 500
• Globally unified systems

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Software Infrastructure team is responsible for the shared technologies our company uses to deliver internal and external systems. We are the custodians the database standards for the organization and provide IS Portfolio teams with guidance, assistance, and standardized practices.
We are looking for a Database Deployment Engineer (DevSecOps Engineer) to help us mature the deployment and delivery of shared database utilities and scripts. You will be assisting in implementing industry standard pipelines within GtitLab/Github using Ansible to automate an existing library of tools. In addition, you will be implementing security modernization efforts such as Secrets as a Service.
As a Database Deployment Engineer, you proactively seek opportunities to improve our infrastructure security in ways that support development team autonomy. You demonstrate excellent customer service and commitment to supporting others. You collaborate effectively and contribute to a positive team dynamic. You will contribute by implementing continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Align database build and deployment and other tooling to Company’s IT general controls
• Collaborate and educate the Database Administration community on build and deployments methods
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in the organization to gather and share best practices
• Understand the compliance landscape and ensure repositories, pipelines and tooling is up to standard
• Contribute to the furthering of the Core Portfolio’s goals for infrastructure as code

This position is on-site and will reside in the greater Seattle, WA. area at one of the following locations depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.

• Downtown Seattle
• Federal Way
• Lynnwood
• Bellevue (Factoria)

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of experience working with DevOps and database administration
• Database knowledge and understanding of their core concepts with any of the following: MySQL, DB2, and/or PostgreSQL
• Experience scripting with tools such as sh, ksh, bash, awk, sed, Python, and/or Perl
• Experience with Unix and Microsoft Windows environments
• Experience with build and deployment technologies (Gitlab/GitHub)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Ansible & Terraform)
• Bachelor’s Degree, equivalent working experience, or industry certifications

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with database monitoring and observability tooling
• Experience with secrets as a service for database credential management
• Some familiarity with SOX audit requirements
• Experience with the build and deployment of databases at scale
• Familiarity working with distributed systems
  Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not transfer or sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (such as an H-1B visa) for this opportunity.

• Align database build and deployment and other tooling to Company’s IT general controls
• Collaborate and educate the Database Administration community on build and deployments methods
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in the organization to gather and share best practices
• Understand the compliance landscape and ensure repositories, pipelines and tooling is up to standard
• Contribute to the furthering of the Core Portfolio’s goals for infrastructure as cod