Senior Automation DevOps Engineer (Building CICD and Integration)

 Requisition #: 15929 

Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement  

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys. 

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.  

Summary / Role Purpose 

Ansys seeks a Senior R&D Engineer (Senior Automation DevOps Engineer - Building CICD and Integration) to contribute on QA Process automation within a small effective cloud-focused team. Prioritizing developer and operations enablement, the engineer will deliver DevOps responsibilities for Quality Assurance automation. Leveraging industry experience, the engineer will help to configure and maintain the suite of application, service, and platform lifecycle management tools and their integrations in a SaaS environment. The engineer will also work to define and implement practices that adhere to Soc2 and Ansys corporate quality policy, under change and extension, while delivering business value to cloud teams. 

The Senior R&D Engineer will be responsible for creating, implementing, and maintaining the QA Process automation tooling for the Ansys Cloud Native platform development teams. 

• Create, implement, and maintain work/operations management systems’ integrations with industry standard tooling 

• Create and maintain technical diagrams and documentation 

• Develop and maintain CICD automation resources and templates 

• Promote best practices and support development teams’ operations and planning feedback loops 

The Cloud QA team is both distributed and autonomous, but highly collaborative. The Senior QA Automation Engineer will be tasked with end-to-end tasks from problem definition to implementation. This role focuses on the idea that quality is: 

• a shared and collective responsibility, not a single individual or role 

• value measured in quantitative and automate-able actions 

• not just the last step in software and service delivery, but the first and every step 

Key Duties and Responsibilities  

• Perform complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including: 

• cloud software and service deployment and maintenance 

• distributed system maintenance and scaling 

• Use modern cloud automation best practices and tooling  

• Help scale our processes (development environments, CICD pipelines, deployments, service delivery)  

• Root cause investigation, automated deployment testing, production incident solving  

• Work independently with minimal supervision, occasional planning and mentoring responsibilities 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience  

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years’ experience, MS with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year experience  

• Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies 

• CICD development experiences: 

• *nix development environments 

• Container image definition and deployments 

• Python and/or Bash scripting 

• at least 1 CICD tool's pipeline definition as code 

• at least 1 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling ecosystem 

• Web application and systems development troubleshooting skills and experience 

• Recent demonstratable knowledge and usage of modern web application, cloud platform security practices and tools 

• Demonstrable experience articulating and communicating the non-technical goals and practices of DevOps to software development teams 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills  

• Curious to learn and test new technologies  

• Knowledge of Distributed systems design and operation 

• Top-notch communication and interpersonal skills  

• Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team  

• Ability to work in a low or no process environment  

• concrete examples of knowing "what needs to be done" vs. "what should be done" 

• product or goals focused, rather than process focused 

• Experience with Kubernetes and commercial public cloud services deployments 

• Cloud hosted software services communication and integrations 

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: the commitments to our stakeholders, the behaviors of how we work together, and the actions of how we deliver results. Together as ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement. 

Our Commitments: 

• Amaze with innovative products and solutions
• Make our customers incredibly successful
• Act with integrity
• Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values: 

• Adaptability: Be open, welcome what's next
• Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
• Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
• Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions: 

• We commit to audacious goals
• We work seamlessly as a team
• We demonstrate mastery
• We deliver outstanding results

INCLUSION IS AT OUR CORE 
We believe diverse thinking leads to better outcomes. We are committed to creating and nurturing a workplace that fuels this by welcoming people, no matter their background, identity, or experience, to a workplace where they are valued and where diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging thrive. 

 
WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS 

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high — met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost. 

At Ansys, it’s about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It’s about the “what’s next” as much as the “mission accomplished.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics. 
  

CREATING A PLACE WE’RE PROUD TO BE  
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplace globally and in the U.S., Gold Stevie Award Winner, America’s Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (Belgium, China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and U.K.). 

  
For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com 
  

Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. 
  
Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity. 

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