Senior Sofware Engineer

Additional Location(s): US-TX-Houston; US-MN-Mankato/Rochester

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:
The Senior Development Operations Engineer is responsible for the deployment and integrity of complex, cutting edge internal and external-facing production and pre-production software environments.  The Senior Deployment Operations Engineer will deploy, configure, manage, and monitor critical applications in a fast-paced, customer-facing, cloud-based environment. The Senior Deployment Operations Engineer will assist in setting direction for the team procedures and projects, as well as taking a lead in driving to completion.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with internal staff and across teams to support application development and releases by utilizing best practices to improve our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Processes
• Provides ongoing mentorship to less experienced team members
• Working across teams to ensure all deployment processes are documented, repeatable, and stable
• Providing requirements and feedback to development team regarding application manageability
• Maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale.
• Setting up automated software builds, tests, and deployments
• Writing automation to streamline the deployment, management, configuration, and performance of company applications
• Optimizing environment efficiency (cost/maintainability/safety/availability)
• Implementing and managing software development tools, such as Azure DevOps, GIT, Terraform, Chocolatey, Puppet, and Octopus Deploy
• Developing integrations between applications and systems, including Rest API development
• Configuring application logs to ensure system integrity and security
• Establishing end-to-end monitoring and alerting to maximize and report on system uptime and availability
• Diagnosing and solving production issues, including advanced troubleshooting of Windows and Linux-based systems
• Completing tasks and projects in a timely manner
• Participating in on-call to work off hours and weekends to support critical business applications
• Other duties as assigned

Required qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience
• Strong knowledge developing Powershell scripts, DotNet, or Python
• Experience working with configuration management tooling or system automation
• Experiencing deploying, supporting and operating enterprise software applications
• Understanding and experience with web applications running on Windows Server operating systems (IIS) or equivalent.
• Experience troubleshooting and diagnosing complex system issues
• Must be available and able to provide support for production systems, respond to emergencies in a timely manner, and provide management with status as appropriate
• Must be able to work a hybrid work model and report onsite weekly or as required

Preferred qualifications: 

• Knowledge of Linux Administration
• Familiarity working with Dynamics
• Strong knowledge of network connectivity and communication protocols including IP, TCP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, HTTP(s), FTP(s)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment that requires proactively defining and managing various tasks and priorities concurrently
• Must be team-oriented with strong and effective communication skills 

Requisition ID: 562603

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. Boston Scientific is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Boston Scientific maintains a drug-free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.