Lead Software Engineer-Devops

OCLC is revitalizing a flagship SaaS offering, and we're looking for engineers eager to solve complex, real-world problems. Our global platform serves users and institutions alike, preserving and sharing cultural heritage for current and future generations. This is an extraordinary opportunity to do work that matters in a product with complex technical needs.
Challenges include optimizing content delivery speed and scalability for a platform that serves millions of requests a day. Complex metadata management, linked data integrations, and asset processing pipelines await on the backend. Bridging both front and backend are complex search and discovery needs. Delivering on all of these from reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure will be a hurdle, but also an opportunity to innovate, grow, and demonstrate leadership.

If you're motivated to work on rewarding technical challenges in support of libraries around the world, we'd love to hear from you. Bring your curiosity, your problem-solving, and your drive to build great things in the cloud. Together, we'll make an impact.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement complex features and systems.
• Provide technical guidance and expertise to the team.
• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality standards
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Terraform: Strong to expert proficiency in Terraform, skilled in building infrastructure-as-code using both custom and 3rd party provider stacks. Experienced deploying SaaS infrastructure and applications under a 24/7/365 support expectation.
• Continuous Delivery: Strong proficiency architecting, designing, and implementing continuous delivery pipelines. Experience collaborating with development, QA, and security teams to build workflows that support governance and technical requirements.
• Containers: Strong proficiency designing and deploying container-based compute workloads. Solid understanding of Dockerfiles and containerization principles.
• Public Cloud Design: Strong proficiency designing infrastructure in the AWS cloud. Broad knowledge of networking, compute, storage, and services and experienced designing infrastructure footprints. Experience with Azure or GCP public clouds may be suitable.
• Kubernetes: Strong proficiency deploying application with Kubernetes, including an understanding of core principles and components. Familiarity with Helm charts a strong preference.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages.
• Extensive experience with software development methodologies.
• Ability to lead and mentor teams.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Deep understanding of database systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience integrating AI tools, frameworks, and concepts into the software development process.

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be the principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.