Our story
At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”
Our Values:
Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.
Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.
Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.
It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.
Learn more at careers.alight.com
Responsibilities
- Responsible for designing, building, and supporting advanced cloud automation workflows and tools used to support automated CI/CD pipeline application deployments into AWS using GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Packer, Vagrant, and Terraform
- Responsible for designing and implementing enterprise-wide layered cloud image management and deployment optimization system with support for public/private software repositories
- Design, development, and support of automation modules using Puppet Enterprise integrated with enterprise metadata
- Adhere to the process and security standards when building application infrastructure in AWS
- Serve as enforcer for DevOps practices to prevent “technical drift”
- Maintain key service level agreements
- Onboarding of new applications into standardized release pipeline
- Work closely and collaborate with technical peers, business operations and enterprise testing teams
- Provide guidance and direction to App Dev teams in regard to DevOps processes and technical/pipeline standards
- Participate in team wide Change Management process as both implementer and verifier ensuring changes are completed efficiently and correctly.
- Keeper and enforcer of the technical and tools standards
- Participate in security reviews for application security groups
- Tier 1 support for release and deployments
- Ability to merge and check-in code
- Patching solutions for hot fix scenarios
- Understanding of application code and build scripts
Activities
- Application specific Terraform development
- Creation and additions of Security groups, ELBs, ASGs, etc.
- CI/CD pipeline for infra build and application automation
- Application specific AMI creation
- Code deployment hooks and integration
- Enhancements and upgrades to existing pipelines
- Use of EC2, RDS, and ECS per standards
- Performance and availability accountability to the applications in the ART or Service team
- Support Application related changes, outages and lifecycle
- Partners with QA and Production app teams in delivery of Applications
- Refactoring legacy application specific pipelines
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or workforce equivalent
- Minimum 4 - 5 years’ experience with DevOps practices and automation tooling
- 5+ years in automation/configuration management (experience with tools like AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Pipeline, AWS CodeCommit, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Ansible )
- Strong experience with GIT and/or other version control systems
- Strong .NET stack experience
- Strong database experience: SQL (primary), MongoDB, MySQL
- Experience with Terraform or Cloud Formation scripting
- Experience with Ansible and Docker
- Experience with AWS cloud services (ECS, EC2, S3, AMIs, RDS, SQS, SNS, etc.)
- Experience with Java, Python, .Net scripting
- Experience with application monitoring platforms, specifically with New Relic and AppDynamics
- Familiarity with Packer and Vagrant
- Experience with Microsoft Teams, specifically with integration type efforts
- Experience with SonarCube
- Experience with JuniperBooks
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience with Angular2+
- Disaster recovery and HA implementations
Benefits
We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options.
By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.
Our commitment to Inclusion
We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.
At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.
As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [email protected].
Equal Opportunity Policy Statement
Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.
Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting their recruiter.
Authorization to work in the Employing Country
Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.
Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
