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We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Rockwell Automation is looking for a creative engineer for its small DevOps team supporting software developers in industrial automation products R&D department. The team is based at RA Prague campus. We are looking for a new colleague with experience in or an interest in software development, the automation of all processes, or someone who is already familiar with the named DevOps culture. Our DevOps team itself, and all the project development teams we support, follows Agile development principles. You will collaborate directly on software and firmware projects alongside development teams. You will grow your career within the DevOps team in the R&D software development department by solving challenging problems using modern tools and practices.

You will report to the Prague manager and work in a hybrid model of three days in the office and two days from home.

Your Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with R&D teams to use and apply DevOps tools and methodologies. Promote continuous improvement and collaboration between development and operations to improve workflows and accelerate software delivery. Join sprint planning and retrospectives to embed DevOps best practices in Agile.
• Design and develop new tools, scripts, setups, or applications for continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and continuous testing (CT), and other processes automation, including quality processes.
• Provide guidance and technical support to developers and testers in setting up and using shared DevOps infrastructure, customizing solutions to meet project specific needs.
• Support development teams by taking on common tasks required across all teams and projects, ensuring engineers can focus on their expertise rather than DevOps solutions. This includes for example, setting up automated reporting, documentation generation, static code analysis tools, and setting up and commissioning automation tools and platforms.
• Alternatively, someone from DevOps may help with hardware and testbeds stands build and maintenance, ensuring teams can build code, run tests, and release with the right infrastructure in place.
• Advocate for and share successful DevOps practices across multiple projects and teams, driving collaboration and efficiency throughout the department

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree in informatics or engineering, or equivalent knowledge and experience in the software development principles and techniques.
• 4+ years of relevant DevOps experience in a professional setting with a mixed IT experience background.
• Both Czech and English in working proficiency.
• Python will be the first-choice language for most of our automation tools and scripts development, so we are looking for an advanced Python enthusiast.
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Windows and Linux systems, whether physical computers, virtual computers, or containerized, wherever possible.
• Automate activities using existing tools or our scripts in Python and shell scripting, or some Groovy and other languages.

Overall knowledge and active use of some CI/CD/CT related tools and DevOps principles like Jenkins pipelines, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Knowledge of infrastructure and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Awareness of on-prem or public clouds, such as VMware or Proxmox and Azure.
• Development experience using containerization in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Awareness of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana.
• Understanding of IT networking, common network protocols, and services.

What We Offer:

Our benefits package includes …

• Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees
• Company volunteer and donation matching program – Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.
• On-demand digital course library for professional development
• Comprehensive mindfulness programs with a premium membership to Calm
• Employee Assistance Program
• Personalized wellbeing programs through our OnTrack program

... and other local benefits!

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.