Lead, Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

A Dev Ops Engineer will take the lead in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining new and existing tooling/automation solutions to enable IFS to further drive the reliability and efficiency of its operation platforms.

A Dev Ops Engineer at IFS is a driver of further automation in the area in which the person is working and ensures the continued robustness of the team’s daily operations. This work is focused on ensuring that continuous integration, testing, and deployment are facilitated using industry Dev Ops best practices and tools.

A Dev Ops Engineer leverages their technical expertise to support the entire IFS organization in developing services that can always be deployed and tested with a high degree of automation. They demonstrate a strong commitment to the service and process quality, taking proactive steps to prevent issues and resolving them quickly and effectively when they do arise.

A Dev Ops Engineer at IFS continually enhances their understanding of processes and technical domains, leveraging this expertise to guide and support others.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies opportunities for new or enhanced automation to drive efficiencies within the organization, producing designs and plans to address those opportunities
• Drives the maintenance and expansion of existing automation and related processes in the organization
  • Continuously improves the quality of deliveries by setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Create documentation, presentation, and training material
• Engage with relevant stakeholders and ensures stakeholder satisfaction through supporting high-quality, thoroughly tested, and frequently deployed software.
  • Provides solution options and estimations
  • Perform pre-studies and prototype new practices
  • Fosters transparency and collaboration across teams to break down silos, align goals, and enable efficient communication.
  • Works closely with QA teams to deliver reliable, high-quality software by ensuring through testing and addressing issues promptly.
• Shares knowledge, guide, and train colleagues
  • Provides direction by mentoring and coaching others
  • Trains colleagues to build software delivery pipelines
  • A change agent for widespread adoption of Dev Ops practices and mindset
  • Encourages pair programming to happen on a day-to-day basis, which is crucial for onboarding new engineers to teams
• Contributes to activities related to service/program management
  • Assists in product-related market research and competitive analysis
  • Assists in defining future direction and vision for domains/concepts related to Dev Ops.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Recommended 5+ years of relevant experience
• BA/BS required, Technical Diploma in Computer Science, MIS, or IT or a related field preferred.
• Able to work / be available a couple hours a day that overlap with US Business Hours is a must.

Mandatory Skills

• CI/CD Tools: Azure DevOps (including Pipelines, Repo, and Artifacts), Bitbucket Pipelines, ClickOnce is nice to have
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform (primary), Ansible (for configuration management)
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker
• Scripting & Automation: YAML, Bash, PowerShell, Python
• Cloud Based Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage), Cost analysis with Azure resources
• Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows
• Application Security Tools: Veracode or equivalent
• Soft Skills: Good writing, and leadership skills
• System Design Thinking: Ability to visualize, design, and implement scalable and secure infrastructure solutions

Good to have Skills

• Testing Tools & Methodologies:
  • Selenium
  • Kubernetes
  • Understanding of CI-Integrated testing strategies
• Monitoring & Observability: Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights
• AI & Automation Integration: Experience with leveraging AI tools and technologies to:
  • Enhance code quality (ex: AI-assisted static analysis, code review tools)
  • Accelerate Development workflows (ex: GitHub Copilot, AI-based test generation)
  • Automate repetitive infrastructure or scripting tasks
  • Innovate across the software engineering lifecycle (ex: troubleshooting or incident responses)

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.