Associate Configuration Administrator – Data Centers- Core Services

Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 company, we employ over 15,300 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 330 locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.

IS Global Service Center (GSC) operating from Chennai, India, is a part of IS supporting Expeditors IT operations. IS GSC has grown to 500+ employees today delivering world class Information services globally. This Product based Strategic Center's IT transformation has delivered a radical change to Expeditors IT manpower profile and skills over the past three years and will continue to deliver services as we continue to grow responsibly in the coming years.

SUMMARY

The Data Centers Configuration administrator is responsible for the design and implementation of systems across our global network of locations. This role will contribute by implementing continuous improvements that demonstrate the benefits of infrastructure automation in on premises and in the cloud. They will play a key role in a cross-functional agile development team and will be responsible for implementing and maintaining various automation components with a primary focus on infrastructure automation and maintenance. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, collaborative team player, and problem solver.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide consulting to development teams on development process automation.
• Managing and implementing cloud-native infrastructure software.
• Provide flexible solutions emphasizing speed, scale, and agility
• Delivering exceptional service to help customers build applications.
• Ability to identify and automate recurring tasks for better productivity.
• Conduct code reviews, application, and security testing to ensure fitness for use.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• At least four to six years of experience in infrastructure development and deployment tooling.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, Shell Scripting and Python.
• Ability to develop Terraforms, Ansible Playbooks or other forms of infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Containers and Container Orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good hands-on experience with Python, Java, and Kubernetes operators.
• Ability to identify and automate recurring tasks for better productivity.
• Comfortable and effective at communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with cloud native applications, container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Familiar with SAFe/Agile methodologies.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with DevSecOps, GitOps, and continuous improvement
• A background working with continuous integration and delivery pipelines using Git, and deployment operators.
• Develop in-house tools and solutions to support our organization.
• Exposure to on-prem and Azure cloud services.
• Strong grasp of automation tools.

REPORTING STRUCTURE

• Team Manager, Enterprise Core Platform

 Expeditors offers excellent benefits:

• Paid Vacation, Holiday
• Health Plan: Medical Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Training and Education Programs
• Unlimited opportunities for career advancement