DevOps Engineer

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:
•    Using approved tools and processes, create Infrastructure as Code scripts to deploy environments in AWS that can be reused by peer team members and teams.
•    Using standard tools and processes, create and utilize pipelines to deploy software applications across multiple environments including lower level, QA, staging and production environments. 
•    Following team standards, provide guidance to peer teams on best practices to deploy infrastructure and applications using IaC and pipelines.
•    Work closely with security operations to maintain proper security posture for supported environments and applications including the implementation of automated security testing.
•    Setup, configure and maintain high availability (HA) and elasticity requirements in the public cloud when required by applications.
•    Implement monitoring and logging standards for infrastructure and applications.
•    Maintain high availability and elasticity requirements in public cloud environments when required by applications.
•    Setup, configure and maintain disaster recovery requirements including scheduled DR drills.
•    Participate in an on-call rotation for the Global DevOps team.
•    Develop and maintain robust logging systems.
•    Support and work with software engineers 
•    Documenting processes and workflows.
•    Participating in Xylem Watermark volunteer activities.
•    Using approved tools and processes, create Infrastructure as Code scripts in AWS and/or Azure that can be reused by peer team members and teams.  

Minimum Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:
•    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (or similar), or equivalent experience 
•    Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
•    2+ years’ experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure deployment tools.
•    2+ years’ experience with AWS and/or Azure is required.  Experience with both is preferred.
•    2+ years’ experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery tools including builds and deployments (examples include Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab, Bitbucket Actions).
•    2+ years’ experience with Git or similar source control tools.
•    Experience supporting production workloads in a Linux environment including troubleshooting production issues and shell scripting.
•    Experience with CI/CD tools such as ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket Pipelines.
•    Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or similar technologies in a production environment is required.
•    Knowledge and experience creating or editing Terraform (or similar) for large-scale environments.
•    Experience with NGINX, Apache, or similar is preferred.
•    Experience working on a DevOps Engineering team that interacts with and enables multiple teams.
•    Experience with monitoring tools Datadog, Nagios, or a similar tool.
•    Experience with TCP/IP and other networking protocols regarding cloud-based networking.
•    High level understanding of agile software development methodologies.
•    Ability and desire to learn new skills quickly.
•    Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
•    Excellent oral and written communication skills.
•    Experience using common Microsoft Office tools to review, create and update documentation, reports, and diagrams.
 

Join the global Xylem team to be a part of innovative technology solutions transforming water usage, conservation, and re-use. Our products impact public utilities, industrial sectors, residential areas, and commercial buildings, with a commitment to providing smart metering, network technologies, and advanced analytics for water, electric, and gas utilities. Partner with us in creating a world where water challenges are met with ingenuity and dedication; where we recognize the power of inclusion and belonging in driving innovation and allowing us to compete more effectively around the world.