Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

Thousands of us around the world wake up every day with a common purpose: to make the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place. Science is in our DNA; we are endlessly curious and passionate about seeking and speaking the truth. We take delight in knowing that our work makes a meaningful contribution to society, and we are proud that our culture is centered on integrity, collaboration, inclusion and excellence. UL stands at the forefront of technological advancement, and we are continually challenged to find new ways to foster innovation and positive change. Satisfying? Yes. Exciting? Absolutely!

UL is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join an experienced software development team.  The candidate will be responsible for the design and development of customer-facing environments and the deployment pipelines to deliver UL software applications.  This individual will work with infrastructure, application support, software architects and engineers to perform a strategic review of hardware and software needs, options, risks, and cost analysis impact. 

Job duties include build and deployment configuration, research, tools and technology evaluation, advising, implementing, and documenting best-practice standards for the development and deployment of enterprise class distributed software.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Development, QA, Infrastructure and Security teams across all phases of application development and deployment
• Create an automation strategy for release deployments and other maintenance activities, and participate in production releases
• May be required for On-Call schedules & escalation for Production support
• Maintain Standard Operating Procedures and policies, adhering to Enterprise policies and compliance needs
• Work on Disaster Recovery planning and testing with other responsible team members, as per company policy
• Enable development teams' productivity by building solutions, automation tools, providing help and guidance as needed
• Troubleshoot environmental issues that arise from software deployment and configuration
• Focus on continuous integration (CI), release management, infrastructure resources (Azure), provisioning of environments

Lead initiatives that improve upon the quality, performance, and stability of the CI/CD pipeline

Skills and Experience

• Strong 5 plus years experience working with PowerShell scripting
• Solid background with DevOps in an on-premises as well as AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid environment
• Experience implementing and executing continuous integration and continuous delivery strategies
• Experience in application monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics
• Active Directory, DNS, Web certs/SSL experience
• Experience with Source Control/Git
• Able to work independently with minimal oversight
• Able to lead, influence, and engage in healthy debate that results in high quality solutions.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and collaboration skills

Desirable skills to have

• IIS and NodeJS configuration
• Hands-on experience with Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Azure DevOps
• Experience with Azure ARM, Bicep or Terraform scripts
• Working experience with Application Load balancers and Firewalls
• Fundamental understanding of Single Sign-on (SSO) workflows and tools
• Creation and usage of asymmetric cryptography
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Configuration Management, Provisioning, Containers)

UL has COVID-19 protocols and policies in place to ensure the safety of our employees, customers and clients. Effective November 1, 2021, the company mandates that employees are vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment (except where prohibited by law), subject to reasonable accommodation as required by law.

• Mission: For UL, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 125 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.   
• People: Ask any UL employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.   

• Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.   
• Grow & Achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.   
• Total Rewards: Total Rewards: All employees at UL are eligible for bonus compensation. UL offers a generous 401k matching structure of up to 5% of eligible pay. Additionally, we invest an additional 4% into your retirement saving fund after your first year of continuous employment. We provide Healthcare Reimbursement Accounts and Health Savings Accounts that UL contributes to twice per year! Depending on your role, you can work with your manager on flexible working arrangements. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer time off.

Working at UL is an exciting journey that twists and turns daily. We thrive in the twists and revel in the turns. This is our every day. This is our normal.  

Curious? To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com.