Associate Systems Administrator - GNS & Transcon Products, IS Operational Experience

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 Associate DevOps Administrator plays a key role working within a highly collaborative and Agile development team toward the design and production of mission-critical, enterprise-scale business systems.  The right candidate is self-motivated, understands technical problems, and is ready to work closely with other team members in various engineering, proactive maintenance, and value-add initiatives.

The Associate DevOps Administrator will work closely with systems architects, software developers, systems engineers, and business analysts to design and maintain enterprise infrastructure, software development pipelines, and miscellaneous system health requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as an integral part of a cross-functional team in an Agile environment
• Support and participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of integrated and automated DevOps capabilities for software development programs
• Support and participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated CI/CD pipelines/workflows in coordination with software development teams
• Support owning and maintaining a comprehensive system health and observability technology stack, including application logs, system logs, infrastructure health, and pipeline automation health
• Support owning and maintaining a comprehensive capacity planning strategy to ensure that Agile teams have adequate resources to sustain ongoing development operations
• Participate in tier 1 troubleshooting to help investigate failures related to infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, and automations 
• Collaborate with internal and external teams as needed to triage and resolve service issues in a timely manner

This position is on-site. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical background with 1-2 years of IT experience
• Strong foundation of PC/server hardware knowledge and skills 
• Experience with automation tools and scripting (any language)
• Basic understanding of object-oriented programming principles
• Basic understanding of relational database management systems (e.g. MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres)
• Basic understanding of source code management (e.g. SVN,Git/Gitlab)
• Well-versed in the Linux operating system
• Foundational networking knowledge/skills (e.g. OSI model, protocols)
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical background with 1-2 years of DevOps or software development experience
• Solid Linux scripting skills (e.g. Bash/Python)
• Basic knowledge of container technologies and orchestration (e.g. Docker/Kubernetes)
• Basic of knowledge of enterprise observability stacks (e.g. ELK Stack, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Any experience with Java and related technologies
• Any experience with Azure (preferred) or other cloud providers
• Any experience with Oracle databases

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.

Additional Information

Expected base salary:  $71,000 to $95,000

Expeditors offers competitive benefits to all full-time employees including:

• Paid vacation
• Holidays (10)
• Flexible Days (2)
• Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
• Commuter Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
• Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.