Senior Software Engineer

TriNet is a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). We enhance business productivity by enabling our clients to outsource their HR function to one strategic partner and allowing them to focus on operating and growing their core businesses. Our full-service HR solutions include features such as payroll processing, human capital consulting, employment law compliance and employee benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans and workers’ compensation insurance.

TriNet has a nationwide presence and an experienced executive team. Our stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TNET. If you’re passionate about innovation and making an impact on the large SMB market, come join us as we power our clients’ business success with extraordinary HR.

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A Brief Overview

The Senior Devops Engineer is responsible for developing deployment framework and managing deployment automation strategies. This is a hands-on leadership role and individual is expected to contribute towards coding, conducting code/design reviews, facilitating technical discussions to determine technical direction when needed, as well as work with engineering teams, other technical leaders, and stakeholders.

• Drive technical strategy and execution for TriNet's automation initiatives, migrating on premise workloads to AWS, supporting team members with solutioning.
• Deliver a robust automation framework built upon established and proven open source or commercial tools.
• Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.
• Manage ongoing technical development by acting as a liaison between the technical team and the internal stakeholders
• Develop detailed work plans for project activities within scope of application or platform responsibility.
• Create metrics to measure effectiveness, coverage, and regression cost reduction.
• Advocate the use of the automation infrastructure with development teams.

Education:

• Four years Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or relevant field.

Experience:

• Minimum 5-8 years of development experience writing scripting using java, shell or Ruby. Perl is a Plus
• Experience in writing automation scripts to streamline workflows and tackle manual tasks
• Hands-on experience with various CICD tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Harness, TeamCity.
• Experience in distributed systems and strong Linux shell scripting. Powershell a plus.
• Strong Experience running and optimizing containers using Docker and orchestrating and scaling them using Kubernetes.
• Experience using cloud services such as AWS, OCI or Azure to build reliable and scalable deployment pipelines.
• Working knowledge of patterns and of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, puppet, Ansible preferred.
• Working knowledge of best practices for versioning, packaging and installing software in a “hands off” environment.
• Experience with deployment tools such as Harness, CloudBess CD or Urban Code.
• Experience in fast, scalable deployment of code across multiple environments.
• Knowledge of Maven2 and associated binary stores such as JFrog Artifactory, Nexus.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent team player with an ability to influence, manage and lead teams by example.

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to assess functional and technical gaps in designs
• Support continuous improvement processes, analyzing problems and recommending actions for effective resolution
• Competency with application servers, deployment tools, Databases and network infrastructure
• Ability to adapt to a fast paced continually changing business and work environment while managing multiple priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Work Environment:

• Work in a clean, pleasant, and comfortable office work setting. 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 persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• This position is 100% in office.

Please Note: TriNet reserves the right to change or modify job duties and assignments at any time. The above job description is not all encompassing. Position functions and qualifications may vary depending on business necessity.

TriNet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race, religion, color, disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), age, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. Any applicant with a mental or physical disability who requires an accommodation during the application process should contact [email protected] to request such an accommodation.