Role overview

Our Platform Operations team has been aligning itself with this philosophy. This transition involves the development and growth of our team while practicing the DevOps philosophy. Currently, we are transitioning to and developing a deployment and operations based platform capable of delivering the following practices:

* Representing infrastructure as software

* Abstracting multi-cloud IaaS APIs into a common Ops Services API

* Declarative provisioning and deployment architectures

* Continuous Integration and Delivery

As a Senior Software Engineer, within the Platform Operations group, you will be responsible for…

Key responsibilities

Helping design, build, and support multi-platform build environments and automations supporting both OS and container-based orchestration pipelines. Support and shared accountability for all production environments. • Supporting Continuous Integration via our automated CD oriented deployment framework • Helping design, build, and support continuous delivery in a multi-cloud environment

• Helping design, build, and support an Ops as a Service suite of apps and API's to provide a a consistent interface and common conventions for deploying and managing applications in a multi-cloud environment.

Encompassing the philosophies and practices above, our core objectives are to adhere to requirements dealing with:

• Time to value • Speed of deployment (cycle time)

• Focus on the customer experience – performance and resiliency of our deployed apps

• Reduce challenges related to Development and Operations collaboration

• Management, configuration, and support of our containerized environments

• Support of the deployment platform – analyze and fix bugs/defects discovered

• Help document and provide tier-2 and tier-3 level support to our NOC team

• Help log and help manage JIRA task and support ticket queues

Experience required

* Demonstrable experience configuring, building, and supporting apps and operations in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).

* Proficient and demonstrable software development experience in at least one of the following languages: Python/Ruby, Go/NodeJS, and Bash.

* Experience building and deploying in a modern, container-based environment (Docker-based preferred; utilizing Kubernetes as the orchestration layer)

* Experience in the operational concerns of managing micro-services architectures (service registration, discovery, resiliency)

* A clear understanding of the practice driven around and the development of a DevOps based release platform • Experience with Infrastructure as Software (IaS). Leveraging cloud APIs, configuration management, and other cloud provisioning tools and frameworks to deploy all aspects of an Infrastructure (VM's, containers, cluster management tools, networking, load balancers, service discovery, and the apps that consume them).

* Experience in the process of transitioning to DevOps practices - includes an understanding of best practices, e.g. both cultural and tactical implementation strategies (e.g. GIT branch strategies) and integration strategies and analysis of related tools.

* Experience developing and supporting automation tools to support IAAS

* Well versed with and working knowledge of other associated software deployment tools - SCM (GIT), CI tools (Jenkins CI), Artifact repositories, Issue management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Crowd)

* Experience configuring, enabling, and supporting IAM services

* Strong working knowledge of the following scripting languages: Python, Bash

* Working knowledge of the following software tools: Maven, Gradle

* Experience in supporting Test Driven and Agile Development

* Strong team collaborative skills and background

* A self-driven individual who can take general directions and objectives and drive them towards successful project delivery.

* Computer science degree or equivalent academic or professional background.

Weight Watchers is an international leader in healthy lifestyle change. Our mission is to "inspire and guide the healthier choices that transform lives." We're leveraging technology and leading the way in the wellness arena with a new emphasis on analytics, mobility, and digital solutions to help our members reach their goals. Our "Beyond The Scale" program is a holistic approach to a healthier, happier life that includes weight management. It's an exciting time to join our team!

We are uniquely positioned to lead the way in the exciting Health Tech industry. With several million people logging in and using Weight Watchers' Apps and systems we are modernizing and rebuilding most of our core experiences and embracing modern engineering practices and techniques. Our strategy is to compete in an increasingly digital weight loss market. Our innovative technology fundamentally improves the way people manage their weight, health and wellness. We are agile service oriented, data-driven, cloud enabled and efficient. We've built Simple UIs on Angular, micro services in Play/Scala & Node, moved our core data to Mongo and Cassandra and enhanced our mobile apps. As reliance on health and wellness awareness increases, come make an impact on a team that is leading the way!

We hire only the best people. Here are the benefits to being top-notch:

* The opportunity to work in a rewarding and highly collaborative environment

* Generous healthcare coverage.

* 401(K) with company match.

* Paid Time Off

* Paid parental leave

* Tuition reimbursement

* Annual wellness allowance

* Profit Sharing Weight Watchers is an equal opportunity employer. Weight Watchers does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, creed, national origin, marital status, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.