Job Description

Position Description

Ally is looking for a talented, proactive and results-oriented software engineer to maintain and enhance a CI/CD build system for our customer facing web applications, APIs and services. In this position, you will have the opportunity to work with a group of top-notch software engineers. To be successful in this role, the candidate must be hands-on, proactive, good at problem solving and have a strong desire to learn and drive for perfection. This build and release engineer takes pride in creating and managing the build infrastructure and build tools using continuous delivery practices. This engineer needs to closely work with cross-functional teams to identify the issues, design and implement the proper solution, and work with the engineering team to properly test and deploy the changes. Critical thinking, writing solid and clean code, planning, documenting and communicating within the team and cross-functionally is critical to the success of the role.

Ally Digital's Tech stack: AWS, OpenShift (Kubernetes), Helm, Jenkins, Java, JavaScript, Python, Terraform and more!

Job Responsibilities

* Previous experience working on a project that has build and release processes integrating at least 25 components
* Managed and maintained a 24x7 CI environment (such as Jenkins, GoCD, Concourse, TeamCity) with hundreds of build jobs and over 30 build agents
* Experience creating Jenkins jobs with Job DSL and Jenkinsfiles
* Breath of knowledge on a variety of techniques and tools in the areas of build, test, deploy, and release.
* Have created and managed software package dependencies (such as: CocoaPods, deb, dmg, NPM)
* Owned artifact management solutions (artifactory, aptly, package mirrors)
* Demonstrated experience with multi-project build tools such as (bazel gradle, blaze, buck, pants)
* Ability to script in bash, python, go, or ruby
* Experience with configuration management tools (such as chef, puppet, ansible)
* Familiar with Linux and macOS systems management
* Strong background in Linux/Unix administration
* Comfortable with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
* Experience with mono-repos and distributed build systems
* As a build and release engineer you will be responsible for managing all aspects of build and release not limited to:
* Analyzing build cycle-time and optimizing software release
* Implementing software release pipeline for all components to integrate, test and deploy to production
* Developing self-service tools to enable developer efficiency for build and release tasks
* Be an independent learner, insatiably curious, and know when to ask for help
* Find multiple solutions to a problem, evaluate tradeoffs, and decide the best approach
* Have strong coding ability and testing mindset, e.g. CI/CD, high code coverage, chaos engineering
* Design, understand, and execute complex procedures
* Be proficient with Git or other version control
* Design and document new processes to solve problems and improve developer efficiency

Qualifications

* Expert-level DevOps or Build Engineering skill set
* Expert-level Jenkins skill set with experience leveraging and integrating with Jenkins in an Enterprise environment
* Expert-level knowledge of source control systems (Git, SVN, etc)
* Expert-level skill set with scripting technologies and programming languages (Bash, Python, YAML, Groovy, etc)
* Senior-level skill set and experience with Docker or like container technology
* Senior-level skill set and experience with Kubernetes or like container orchestration technology
* Senior-level SSL management skill set
* Senior-level skill set and experience with logging, monitoring and alerting technologies (Splunk, AppDynamics, Prometheus, etc)
* Mid-level skill set building REST APIs
* 5+ years working in a Digital environment with customer-facing web applications
* 4+ years with Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
* 2+ years OpenShift and HELM experience in an Enterprise environment
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills to all levels of the organization (Executive leaders, Product and Engineering teams)
* Availability to be on-call after hours for releases and triage events
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Ally Overview

Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) is a leading digital financial services company and a top 25 U.S. financial holding company offering financial products for consumers, businesses, automotive dealers and corporate clients. Ally's legacy dates back to 1919, and the company was redesigned in 2009 with a distinctive brand, innovative approach and relentless focus on its customers. Ally has an award-winning online bank (member FDIC), one of the largest full service auto finance operations in the country, a complementary auto-focused insurance business, a growing digital wealth management and online brokerage platform, and a trusted corporate finance business offering capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.

Total Rewards Information

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally's total compensation -- or total rewards -- extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

* Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
* Planning for the Future: benefits to help you plan for the near and long term including an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement and other financial well-being programs.
* Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally and financially.
* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility support as well as benefits that help you take care of your family -- parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and child care discounts.
* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

Ally is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We extend equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.