DevOps Engineer II

at  Poolcorp

COMPANY OVERVIEW

POOLCORP is the leading business-to-business distributor of swimming pool and landscape supplies, equipment, and related outdoor living products. Through our subsidiaries, SCP Distributors LLC, Superior Pool Products LLC, and Horizon Distributors Inc., we operate in more than 440 wholesale Sales Centers worldwide with nearly 6,000 employees serving the needs of customers by offering a wide array of products and value-added support.
Our Covington, LA headquarters provides exceptional support (i.e., IT, HR, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Purchasing, Sourcing, etc.) to each of our Sales Centers. Our extraordinary company culture encompasses a high work ethic, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a community presence all within a family-oriented work atmosphere. At POOLCORP, we strive to employ only the very best.

JOB SUMMARY

Deploys and maintains the infrastructure and code required by our software solutions. In this role you enable Software Engineering teams to continuously test and deploy software using automation technologies. Your success will be measured in your ability to maintain and/or increase customer uptime, reduce opportunities for human error, and creation of operational efficiencies.
As a development team member, you play a key role to improve developer productivity and delivery speed by enabling them to be more self-sufficient. You will work directly with developers, system architects, IT security, and other stakeholders to ensure high-quality deployment artifacts that fit with existing and planned technologies and processes.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 or more years’ hands-on software development experience.
• 1 or more years’ in an IT operations role (systems administration, networking, etc.)
• Ability to work well independently and within a team environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate the benefits of automated operations processes to both development and operations teams.
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps (previously VSTS) or Azure DevOps Server (previously TFS).
• Proficiency coding .NET Web API, MVC 5, and WCF in Visual Studio; other coding experience a plus.
• Proficiency with operating systems and web/application server technologies.
• Proficiency with PowerShell scripting language; other scripting experience a plus.
• Proficiency with SQL server; graph and NoSQL experience a plus.
  Bilingual, Military, Military Spouses and Veteran applicants are strongly encouraged to apply! Currently, POOLCORP has over one hundred and twenty military personnel serving on our team. We understand the uniqueness of hiring military personnel and veterans and will support him/her in the time of duty or with the transition into new civilian professions.
  All offers to external candidates for employment are contingent upon the successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background verifications before employment is finalized.
  POOLCORP, including all its subsidiaries, is a drug-free company and Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. The Company understands, respects, and values diversity – unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while striving to be inclusive of all people. This commitment is critical to our success as a global company as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Hiring and promotional decisions are based solely on the qualifications required for the job to be filled

• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for software applications.
• Engage development teams to ensure applications include administration features and are designed to enable logging, monitoring, and configuration at deployment time (without code changes).
• Design and build Azure cloud and on-premise Windows-based environments that are modern, automated, and scalable.
• Identify interdependencies and productivity barriers between development and operations.
• Standardize development, change, validation, and deployment processes to reduce complexity.
• Identify opportunities to automate operations activities that impede the delivery process.
• Test and evaluate new technologies.
• Provide on-call support outside of normal work hours/days as needed.
• Other non-essential job duties as assigned.