Engineering Specialist (DevOps)

Fresenius Kabi USA•North Andover, MA

4d•$160,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Subject matter expert engineer that applies their technical knowledge to lead the design, building, operating and maintaining of systems, applications and services used in support of R&D activities to deliver software used in medical devices and engineering projects related to medical technology. Works under no direct supervision and applies advanced engineering practices to resolve problems of high complexity. Mentors and guides experienced engineers and leads team projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Technology or Computer Science is required.
10+ years of experience in engineering team, troubleshooting, and solving problems.
Experience in the software development life-cycle methodology and software product implementation.
Extensive experience in designing and implementing performant CI/CD and related devops solutions using a variety of technologies.
Extensive experience with a range of devops practices including: Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Testing (CT), Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CD), Continuous Security (DevSecOps), Continuous Monitoring & Observability, Elastic Infrastructure, Collaborative Culture.
Strong direct experience with and administration of DevOps tools such as: GitHub, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Bitbucket, Jama, Jira, Confluence.
Working knowledge of technologies including: C#, .Net Framework / .Net Core, Web Services, Windows Services, SQL Server, C++, and IOT embedded systems development is preferred.
Demonstrated experience in working across organizational boundaries to provide product implementation support to assure product launch success.
Advanced experience working in virtual and cloud environments is required.
Strong experience with Linux and Windows systems deployment and administration.
Demonstrated ability to update source control management and configuration procedures. Experience with Git required.
Ability to diagnose and solve problems involving multiple technologies (i.e., mechanical, electrical, software)
Ability to lead in an agile environment, lead teams to achieve project objectives.

Nice To Haves

Experience with medical device software development processes and FDA regulations preferred.
Experience deploying and maintaining microservices, Kubernetes, and cloud-based services is desired.

Responsibilities

The Engineering Specialist independently plans, executes, and manages project/programs within a discipline of expertise that incorporates novel methodologies and techniques to improve software product delivery and best practices.
Generates innovative solutions to complex problems by applying multiple disciplines and technical principles, ensuring alignment with product requirements and medical product design controls.
Advises senior management regarding appropriate action.
Analyzes, plans, designs, executes, and documents most complex software solutions and/or processes within established medical product design controls.
Designs and develops solutions adhering to product requirements, definitions and/or program goals.
Able to solve complex problems, perform root cause and failure analysis.
Complete latitude for independent judgment to resolve issues and contribute to the team’s development.
Displays advanced understanding of theories/practices utilized by own discipline and other disciplines outside the primary area of expertise to identify coverage of risks, requirements, architectural components, functions, and performance.
Works with senior leadership to improve software engineering process efficiency.
Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise to effectively operate and facilitate cross-functional teams.
Leads team in resolving software delivery defects, improving root cause and analysis techniques.
Manages and oversees R&D infrastructure and applications to support software development including Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment, source control management, code review processes, specification management, defect tracking.
Manages and administers virtual environments in support of development, test and validation efforts.
Develops software tools, scripts and automation used in the development, verification/validation or delivery of medical device products.
Validates tools used in the development of medical device products
Leads or contributes to project timing, tracking progress to program schedule.
Acts as an advisor and mentor to subordinates, advising on routine and complex issues, may advise leaders to meet schedules.
May supervise or direct subordinates on assigned projects.
Authors and reviews devops related specifications, software architecture, and design documents compliant with design control process.
May publish in journals and/or hold some patents.
Develops and maintains technical records and detailed documentation for internal and external stakeholders, following standard practices and good documentation procedures.
All employees are responsible for ensuring the compliance to company documents, programs and activities related to the Health, Safety, Environment, Energy, and Quality Management Systems, as per your roles and responsibilities.