DevOps Engineer

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Job Description

At Pinnacle, our vision is to make the world reliable, one customer at a time.
What does Reliability mean to you? For Pinnacle, reliability means our customers can trust that their facilities operate when and how they are supposed to. With a focus on data, Pinnacle drives to increase safety, efficiency, and evolve facilities to an optimized state through reliability. Pinnacle serves a variety of Industries, including:
• Oil & Gas • Food & Beverage
• Specialty & Petrochemical • Pharmaceutical
• Mining • Agriculture & Fertilizer
• Lumber • Water & Wastewater
Rooted in exploration, we constantly seek innovative ways to enhance industrial reliability. By fostering team development and embracing growth, we deliver added value to customers, creating a lasting global impact. This commitment drives us to cultivate bold future leaders, continuously reshaping the understanding of reliability.
Innovation resides at the heart of our core values—excellence, impact, and growth—propelling us toward our vision.
Why Advance Your Career at Pinnacle?
Our people are our driving force, vital in realizing our goal of a more reliable world. We prioritize fostering professional growth, offering comprehensive onboarding, training, leadership programs, and continuous learning opportunities. At Pinnacle, you'll expand your horizons across disciplines, collaborating with diverse teams, and participating in the development of leading-edge solutions. Curiosity, engagement, and impact are celebrated traits here. We strive for excellence in everything and seek people who share this drive to join our team. Our collaborative work environment encourages employees to develop the tools and techniques that redefine what reliability means to the industry.

Pinnacle is looking to build on our legacy of excellence, innovation, and growth. We are focused on rapidly developing new technologies and aggressively expanding our portfolio with cutting-edge reliability software building our Reliability as a Service (RaaS) offerings. We are seeking a skilled Azure DevOps Engineer with expertise in Kubernetes to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in optimizing our software development lifecycle and enhancing our continuous integration and delivery processes.

Job Duties

• Setting up infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or ARM.
• Setting up, managing, and maintaining Kubernetes and Kubernetes clusters
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and pipeline security
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure

• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

• Create observability systems: logging, tracing, and performance metrics
• Deploy large scale, highly available systems
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operations
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Integrate Azure SQL, Azure App Service, and Azure Functions into CI/CD pipelines for efficient database management, web application hosting, and serverless computing
• Automate build and deployment processes using bash, PowerShell, Python, C#, or other scripting languages to improve efficiency and reduce manual errors
• Configure and manage Azure DevOps environments, including repositories, work items, and release management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Accountabilities 

• Maintain build and release pipelines
• Respond to requests from internal customers
• Maintain Azure environments for Dev/Test and production

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science
• 6+ years’ experience in software development environments
• Expert in Azure DevOps
• Experience working on various infrastructure such as Windows and Linux servers
• Excellent understanding of various coding languages such as C#, Java, PowerShell, JavaScript, Python
• Configuration and managing databases such as SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes
• Expert knowledge of IaC
• Expert knowledge of CI/CD

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes certification
• Azure DevOps certification

Equipment and Software Knowledge

• Azure DevOps
• Azure Cloud
• Networking and Firewall configuration

Direct Reports

There will be no direct reports to this role

About Pinnacle

Headquartered in Pasadena, Texas, Pinnacle is focused on helping industrial facilities improve reliability performance, resulting in increased production, optimized spend, and improved process safety and environmental impact. Pinnacle bridges the gap between data and reliability decisions by combining reliability engineering expertise with data science and technology. Pinnacle is privately held and has been consistently recognized for its growth by Inc. Magazine, the Houston Business Journal, and more.