Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer

Who We Are

Williams International is a privately-owned company that develops and manufactures jet engines for both military and commercial aircraft applications. We are a company of creators who deliver pioneering ideas and technologies that lead the aerospace industry. Our culture fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning to position our team members to inspire each other and provide quality products and supporting services that exceed the expectations of our customers.

The Opportunity

Williams International has an exciting opportunity for a Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer to join our team. The role of Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer will be instrumental in improving the efficiency of secure software development and maintainability. This role will be responsible for researching software technologies, presenting potential solutions to stakeholders, then working with IT infrastructure and Cybersecurity to implement and maintain them. In addition, the enablement engineer gets feedback from, and provides guidance to, developers under the effort of continuous improvement of software development and maintainability.

The Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer responsibilities include:

• Coaches on DevOps best practices
• Improve software delivery workflows
• Assists Platform Engineering with onboarding teams to share pipelines and tooling
• Helps configures and optimize CI/CD pipelines
• Guides automation across build, test, and deployment workflows
• Assists development teams with operational readiness
• Collaborate with Security to ensure secure SDLC practices are adopted
• Work in a team environment with shared code with disciplined use of source code control and process documentation.
• Adhere to and contribute to improving coding and deployment standards.
• Respond to developer feedback and develop solutions to satisfy their needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science with 6+ years of related experience.
• Must have strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Strong math and statistics skills are required.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
• Extensive knowledge in and experience with establishing DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, for a team.
• Heavily experienced with selecting, implementing, and using software development tools, methodologies, and best practices (e.g., Git and Jira) personally and for a group.
• Issue Tracking, Source Code Repository, security (SCA, SAST, DAST, Secrets Management, Authentication/Authorization), and Observability (Logs, Metrics, Traces, Visualization)
• Extensive knowledge in and experience with containerization tools Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as C#, C++, Python, SQL, JavaScript, PHP, or Java.
• Visual Studio experience desired with ASP.NET / Razor Pages / MVC / MVC Templating / C# / CSS / UI Design & Coding.
• Working knowledge of popular web-development frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) is beneficial.
• Advanced analytics development and support experience is desired.
• Working knowledge of relational database systems including MS SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, with proficiency in designing and maintaining tables, views, stored procedures, and related database objects.
• Familiar with Micro Services or WCF Service solutions.
• Working knowledge of developing webservices with REST APIs.
• U.S. citizenship is required
• Position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Government Security Clearance, if needed. Candidates selected may be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. For more information on Security Clearances, please visit: U.S. Department of State.

Additional Information

Williams International is a Drug Free Workplace where all new team members and contractors are subject to pre-employment drug testing for the following controlled substances: marijuana, cocaine, PCP, amphetamines, opioids and alcohol as policy dictates.

Williams International is committed to equal employment opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, and protected veteran status.

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