Cloud Development Engineer

This DevOps Engineer is responsible for enhancing the overall productivity of the Ansys Discovery development team. In this role, the candidate will work hands-on with developers and testers to provide build and deployment services for the Ansys Discovery products, enhance and refactor code, and investigate methods to improve product stability and developer productivity. RESPONSIBILITIES • Manage build, testing, and distribution systems • Explore methods and technologies to improve efficiency of the Discovery development team • Migrate workloads to utilize cloud resources • Enhance and refactor application code • Manage continuous integration and VDI systems • Liaison with corporate build, testing and dev services teams • Automate deployment of the system for testing and production use • Perform performance testing and optimization of the deployment • Actively participate in project planning, design brainstorm sessions and team meetings MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS • BS in Engineering, Computer Science or related field with 2 years’ experience or MS, or adequate work experience • Experience with system administration, IT, or software development • Hands-on experience in creation and deployment of containers • High proficiency in C# and object-oriented programming principles • Solid understanding of Windows and virtualization • Highly motivated with a willingness to learn new technologies and make architectural decisions • Strong team player who thrives in an open and collaborative environment and is committed to meeting team goals PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Build and source code management tools such as Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins, Git • Containerization technologies such as Docker • Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet • Package management tools such as NuGet, Conan • Cloud APIs such as AWS or Azure