Senior 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.

DevOps Engineer

Xylem, a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, is the leading global provider of efficient, innovative and sustainable water technologies improving the way water is used, managed, conserved and re-used. Our international team is unified in a common purpose: creating advanced technology and other trusted solutions to solve the world’s water challenges. We are committed to creating an organization of inclusion and diversity, where everyone feels involved, respected, valued and connected, and where everyone is free to bring their authentic selves and ideas.

If you are excited and passionate about helping us #letssolvewater, we want to hear from you! For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com​.

We Offer You More Than Just “A Job”

• Professional Development – To advance the capabilities of our people, we offer a wide variety of experiences to support our employees’ professional growth and continuous learning.
• Total Rewards – We offer comprehensive programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, work-life integration and corporate citizenship.
• Watermark – Watermark is our corporate social responsibility program working to provide education and access to safe water to ensure healthy lives, gender equality, and resilient communities. Employees can learn and volunteer on various water-related projects and opportunities to support the communities where we live.
• Employee Networks – Our Employee Networks provide a professional, supportive network for employees from diverse backgrounds, including Women’s, LGBT+ and Allies, Veteran’s, People of Color and Allies, Emerging Leaders, and Working Parents Networks.

The Role: Xylem seeks to hire a DevOps Engineer with interests in creating automation for multiple development teams to assist with deployment of infrastructure to public cloud environments and developing pipelines for the deployment of applications.   Responsible for support, and maintenance of operational software, development of automation scripts, development and maintenance of operational pipelines, and physical support of the servers and infrastructure in our Data Centers.  As a member of the Global DevOps Engineering team, you will have opportunities to continue the push towards Infrastructure as Code and utilize a wide range of common tools to support environments through automation including Terraform and other commonly used tools in the industry.  The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to succeed in a fast paced, fluid environment, supporting multiple teams while ensuring initiatives are met.  If you are excited and passionate about working on state-of-the art technology trends, we want to hear from you! 

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.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility (office).

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• This is a position that will require to be onsite in an office but may allow for opportunities to work from home.

 

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.