The Senior DevOps Engineer has focused areas of Accountability and Responsibility noted below:
Training: The Senior DevOps Engineer conducts training for any staff Engineers and other engineering teams on how to build software defined/driven processes in code. The Senior DevOps Engineer plays an operational role by troubleshooting issues in systems and leveraging those issues as vehicles for teaching other members of the staff.
Strategy: The Senior DevOps Engineer enables automation of configuration management for all development, quality assurance, user acceptance, pre-production and production services as well as the automation of continuous integration and continuous delivery of IaC services. The Engineer is also tasked with recommending software deployment strategies that allow DevOps engineers to successfully deploy software and services in any environment. They are responsible for the updating configuration management tools, code, and modules for the purpose of streamlining implementation and supportability.
Design and Development: The Senior DevOps Engineer is charged with building and optimizing comprehensive automation systems that operate across all lines of business at Assurant. They also implement scaling strategies and develop automation scripts and solutions for the purpose of streamlining, implementing, and testing software-based technology services. The Senior DevOps Engineer additionally develops self-service solutions for the engineering departments in order to deliver software-based technology services with great speed and quality. They are also responsible for providing input into the architecture and technical leadership of the entire DevOps infrastructure.
Collaboration and Support: The role of the Senior DevOps Engineer is a collaborative role where they assist more junior members of various teams in the usage of technologies for software development, software testing, service provisioning, and service management. The Senior DevOps Engineer also leverages the workings of reusable tools and patterns, for example, reusable code and CI/CD pipeline tasks. They also support engineering teams in the implementation and lifecycle of infrastructure solutions and operational documentation in order to meet the highest levels of quality and standards.
Knowledge: The Senior DevOps Engineer is further tasked with keeping up with and implementing industry best practices and trends on behalf of the DevOps department. They conduct research, tests, and implements new metrics collection systems that can be reused and applied to software-based technology services and application development projects. The role is seen as apractitioner of emerging and transformational technologies and ways of working.