Job Description

ASSOCIATE, DEVOPS ENGINEER

Digitas is a highly-caffeinated playground where brilliant minds come together to bring bold, award-winning ideas to life.

Paving the way for these amazing projects is our Technology capability, dedicated to transforming the digital marketing landscape. The Technology capability collaborates with other capabilities within Digitas such as Strategy, Creative, Data Science and Media, as well as client business and technology representatives, to bring cutting edge digital products and campaigns to life. We also have strategic partnerships with many of the world’s leading marketing and advertising technology vendors that helps us leverage the best platforms and tools for our clients.

To help with this, we’re looking for an outstanding ASSOCIATE DEVOPS ENGINEER – someone who can skillfully juggle multiple lanes of work, adapt to new technologies, and deliver applications to production on time. Sound like you? Read on.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

The DevOps team is a practice within our Engineering group. As one of its members, you'll be within the Technology capability. We often act as the glue that brings together each of the practices, QA, Front End, Software, Business Analysis, and others. We've got a mind towards systems, integrations, and making sure the trains run on time. Within DevOps, we are the classic wearers of many hats, but our core focus areas are:

• Release Management
• Automation First
• Infrastructure as Code
• Secure & Reliable Software

Our DevOps team originated as a tight-knit crew of Release Managers. As the responsibilities of Release Management changed over time, we formalized ourselves as DevOps Engineers. We retain Release Management as a core function. On a given day, we manage many releases from brochure-style landing pages, to large CMS-driven enterprise applications. We easily top four-hundred individual releases in a given year. While wearing the Release Management hat, DevOps ensures that branch management best practices are followed, the build server successfully generates releases, and coordinates the smooth deployment across many environments (up to and including production.)

DevOps is now working to drive automation across our business. From ensuring our functional tests are well automated, to furthering our continuous integration efforts, to moving more of our services into the cloud.

Security continues to be at the core of our day-to-day responsibilities. DevOps ensures our security tooling is up-to-date, covers our applications and tools appropriately, and continues to keep pace with industry standards.

As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you’ll manage releases across multiple lines of business, focus on improving our infrastructure, drive automation and security wherever possible, and guide our Co-Ops in best practices.

DAY-TO-DAY, YOUR ROLE INCLUDES:

• Contribute to our infrastructure as code, via Chef
• Triage and manage Jenkins builds and releases
• Inform and guide branching and SCM best practices
• Steward releases across internal and client lower levels
• Communicate status effectively to various internal and client stakeholders
• Participate in DevOps team stand-ups, backlog grooming, and sprint planning
• Iterate and improve frameworks for automation
• Documenting systems and infrastructure with an eye towards pulling more people into the knowledge base

WE’RE LOOKING FOR STRONG, IMPACTFUL WORK EXPERIENCE, WHICH TYPICALLY INCLUDES:

• Practical experience with release engineering or release management
  • Branching strategies
  • Best practices
  • Generating release notes
  • Working with releases in an issue tracking tool
• One or more cloud provider such as Azure, AWS, of GCP
• One or more configuration management solution such as Terraform, Chef, or Ansible
• One or more development language such as Javascript, Ruby, or Python
• Familiarity with common computer science topics such as
  • Object oriented development
  • Idempotence
  • Inheritance
  • Extensibility
• Strong experience with git
• Previous usage and administration of Linux systems such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, etc.
• Working knowledge of networking

Got what it takes? We’d love to hear from you!

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