Spire is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in Spire’s evolution in the DevOps journey. This role will be primarily responsible for playing a specialized technical role to enhance, mature, and support a wide range of applications that enable Spire’s critical business processes.

• Understands and supports critical applications in Enterprise landscape – including but not limited to Oracle EBS, Customer Care & Billing, Maximo, Powerplan, Hyperion, Endur, and Click
• Lead and oversee migration standards within shared services group, partnering with Architects to execute on vision
• Leads team in release management, and application migrations within specialized area
• Oversee and influence built-in quality, partnering with Quality Assurance, as it pertains to unit/developer testing
• Responsible for monitoring performance issues, identifying and executing on long-term solutions
• Responds, when required, to triage production issues related to integrations or scheduling operations and follow Service Level Agreement set forth
• Fully imbedded in development team, and participates in all ceremonies and planning, focused on acceptance criteria that is clear, precise, and testable
• Accepts work into the team backlog and owns the commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each PI.
• Accountable for development and updating of technical documentation
• Effectively collaborate within your specific team, as well as across agile teams to ensure alignment in dependencies, and how each team’s work impacts your own
• Responsible for monitoring performance issues, identifying and executing on long-term solutions to improve up-time
• Responsible for optimizing, enhancing, and supporting cybersecurity protocols as it relates to the shared service application suite
• Accountable for application health and version control across all non-prod environments

Required Education (certifications, licenses)

• Bachelor’s degree – Computer Science, Information Technology, or Technical Engineering preferred
• SAFe certification(s) a plus

Required Knowledge, Skill And Abilities

• 7+ years of Weblogic and/or Websphere experience preferred
• 5+ years of related work experience playing an active leadership role in technology delivery and business analysis
• Understanding of enterprise applications, functionality, and end to end processes, preferred but not required, in specialized application support stream (i.e Customer Facing or Internal Core Apps)
• Experience with multi-tier JEE environments
• Oracle Web Center Content experience is preferred
• Strong knowledge in Oracle fundamentals
• Experience in Oracle RAC
• Experience with Linux and Windows Operation Systems
• Experience developing in an agile environment a plus
• Excellent understanding of the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) approach
• Excellent proficiency in SQL, SQL-Plus, and CRON coding knowledge and experience
• Integration services, server Administrator, Reporting Services, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Database developer, T-SQL, Clustering, and Replication
• In depth understanding of Oracle database structures, theories, principles and practices, including but not limited to the creation and definition of database, database recovery procedures, and database product installation
• Strong scripting experience (javaScript, XML, Python, etc.)
• Strong analytical skills/capabilities to solve complicated issues arising during design and testing phases