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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Meijer Rewards</strong></p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Weekly pay</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Scheduling flexibility</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paid parental leave</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paid education assistance</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Team member discount</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Development programs for advancement and career growth</span></li> </ul> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Please review the job profile below and apply today!</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This is a remote opportunity as long as you’re located within one of our 6 footprint states – Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana or Kentucky. Relocation Assistance potentially provided for those interested.</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Meijer is looking for an Innovative and solutions-driven Engineer with experience in solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This person will be responsible for automating and managing test environments that support various stages of the SDLC to ensure that the infrastructure is consistent, reliable, and can be rapidly deployed or scaled as needed.</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are looking for someone proficient in leveraging modern cloud technologies, as well as someone who understands physical on-premise environments, management and observability tooling, configuration and provisioning management good practices along with modern IaC or other relevant tools to ensure efficient, repeatable, and scalable infrastructure deployment, management, maintenance and decommissioning.</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">.</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll be Doing:</strong></p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develop and implement test environment strategies and plans in alignment with project requirements and organizational objectives.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with project teams to define, design, implement and manage environment requirements, timelines, and dependencies leveraging modern environment provisioning tools like Terraform and good practices such as infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions to support continuous integration and delivery pipelines.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with development teams to integrate good practices around ephemeral environments including things like containerization, IaC & observability tools to integrate environment management into the SDLC, enhancing the overall quality and speed of software delivery.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Monitor and maintain the availability, performance, and reliability of test environments, identifying and addressing issues proactively using Dynatrace/ other monitoring Tools as provided by the enterprise.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Understand the ITSM models to optimize environment management service activities to align with project priorities and change management activities minimizing impacts to the test environments.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with other teams to facilitate automated tests for infrastructure validation, ensuring that deployed environments meet the necessary specifications and performance benchmarks.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Manage or support version control of infrastructure code to track changes, facilitate rollbacks, and maintain stability across different environments</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Provide regular status updates and reports on test environment activities, issues, and performance metrics.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Support during Defect triage and resolution.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develop and present comprehensive system flow and test flow diagrams to ensure test environment variations align and support the development lifecycle.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Implement Service Virtualization using Postman/other available Market Tools.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Performs feasibility studies/proofs of concept, to evaluate TEM solutions.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Works within the SAFe Agile framework and utilizes ITIL and ITSM best practices.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Conduct static and local checks, apply and destroy environments or facilitate the same with project teams or development groups, and survey usage to ensure the reliability and security of infrastructure code.</span></li> </ul> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You Bring with You (Qualifications):</strong></p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Minimum of 3 years of experience in ITSM aligned environment change/capacity management (public, private or hybrid cloud) or related roles (DevOps, Managed Services)</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong understanding of test environment concepts, principles, and best practices, including ephemeral concepts and management.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Proficiency in environment provisioning tools and technologies, such as virtualization platforms, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with implementing or working with infrastructure as code (IaC) and modern configuration management/orchestration solutions leveraging tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudForms.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex environment issues.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Knowledge on environment observability and related tooling (Dynatrace preferred).</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with Service Virtualization and related tooling (Postman Preferred).</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Working knowledge of SAFe agile framework preferred. Certification in SAFe, Environment management, software testing, or related areas is a plus.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills. Ability to work well on cross-functional project teams and foster team commitment to tasks.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.</span></li> </ul> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Tools and Technologies:</strong></p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Hands on experience using Postman Tool</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Knowledge of RedHat OpenShift, OpenShift Cluster Platform, Kubernetes, Container solutions, Hypervisors, Microsoft Azure, related tooling, good practices for test environments and concepts for management.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Understanding of network concepts, protocols, and services like DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, FTP, and IPSec.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to leverage cloud-native tools for automation, scaling, monitoring, and securing infrastructure</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Hands on experience with Dynatrace Monitoring and Dashboards. (Log management with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and Splunk a plus).</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Knowledge of Operating Systems: AIX, Linux, Unix, Windows and ZOS.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Knowledge on Miro, ServiceNow, ADO. (BMC Helix is plus).</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Hands-on with Terraform scripting or similar. (experience or knowledge of Pulumi, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, Templates, GitOps, ArgoCD, Flux a plus)</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with configuration management and automation tooling such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack and scripting with Bash, PowerShell, and Python or similar.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Understanding of SDLC, CICD, Automation and Version control concepts.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Good documentation, technical writing and version controls.</span></li> </ul>

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