Team Lead, DevOps Engineer (Lead Oracle DBA)

Spire IncSaint Louis, MO, US, 63101

30+ days ago

Job description

Summary

Spire is seeking a Team Lead, DevOps Engineer to oversee Spire’s evolution in the DevOps journey. This role will be primarily responsible for providing oversight and guidance within a team of specialized DevOps Engineers to enhance, mature, and support a wide range of applications that enable Spire’s critical business processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

Understands and supports critical applications in Enterprise landscape - including but not limited to Oracle EBS, Customer Care & Billing, Maximo, Powerplan, Hyperion, Endur, and Click
Leads and oversee migration standards within shared services group, partnering with leadership and 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.
Partner with architects to understand technical landscape, as well as future roadmap to support middleware operations
Accountable for development and updating of technical documentation
Ensure execution of overall ITS solution strategy, standards, and practices
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

Essential Characteristics and Competencies

Demonstrate servant leader mindset

Ability to teach and mentor, fostering an environment of continuous learning and progress

Excellent understanding of software development life cycles

Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the ART

Ability to recognize problems and respond, systematically gather information, sort through complex issues, understand consequences of decisions, provides recommendation, and seeks input from leadership

Supervisory Responsibilities

Technical and general supervision of specialized application engineers expected

Required Education (certifications, licenses)

Bachelor’s degree - Computer Science, Information Technology, or Technical Engineering required

SAFe certification(s) a plus

Required knowledge, skill and abilities

7+ years of Weblogic and / or Websphere experience

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

Prior people leadership experience a plus, but not required

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

Physical demands, environment and schedule

Hybrid Remote / Office environment

Work performed primarily during business hours, with off-hours support required at times

Some travel may be required as ITS and teams are disparate across locations (primarily St. Louis and Birmingham)

Posting Requirements

Spire accepts online applications through our career site at jobs.spireenergy.com

Posting requirements : The above posting description is intended to describe the general nature of the level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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