Senior Systems Engineer - DevOps and Automation (REMOTE)

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

ABOUT THE COMPANY

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we take a people-centric approach to everything we do. Our Athletes, how we refer to customers, and our Teammates, how we refer to our employees, are at the center of every decision we make so that we can provide transformational experiences online, in store, and in sport. When you join Technology at DICK’S Sporting Goods, you’re joining a true team that wins together. We help our Athletes and fellow Teammates better their best by innovating solutions to interesting business problems and empowering every Technology Teammate to be an innovator. And, while we work remotely from all over the United States, we provide virtual and in-person events for the team to hangout, from virtual escape rooms to cheering on the Pittsburgh Pirates at beautiful PNC Park.

JOB PURPOSE 

Designs and builds tools and platforms to deliver a best in class developer experience for multiple development teams. Performs business/software analysis. May coordinate work within a product team.  

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Platform Development 

Drive development of existing DevOps platforms and contribute to development of new DevOps platforms by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement. Develop platforms that is fast, secure and reliable to meet defined requirements. 

Platform Maintenance 

Monitor, identify, and correct complex platform defects to maintain fully functioning platforms, leveraging the support and skill of more junior teammates. 

Infrastructure As Code 

Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane/YAML, and more. Set the standards that development teams will use. 

Automation Engineering 

Design and develop effective automation of many manual processes using a variety of scripting languages including but not limited to Powershell, Go, Python, and Bash. 

Continuous Integration/Deployment 

Design and develop sophisticated CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions, Flux/ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc. 

Technical Developments Recommendation 

Research and suggest ways to optimize solutions to better meet user and/or business, performance, quality needs. 

Documentation 

Writes documentation and diagrams to explain system design and how our end users can use them. 

Ongoing Learning and Development 

Mentor junior …