IT Manager

Overview: Working as Full-Time IT Development Operations Manager, you will be responsible for managing a team focused on the enterprise’s DevOps platforms (CI/CD, change tracking, source control, web servers, and application servers). You will collaborate with other groups to ensure efficient and effective IT service delivery to support business goals and objectives. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, prioritizing, assigning responsibilities, and communicating the progress of the teams’ efforts.

Specific Duties:

1. Managing day-to-day assignments and work priorities

2. Creating, prioritizing, planning, and tracking the progress of projects

3. Researching new technology, techniques, threats, and industry best practices

4. Collaborating with infrastructure, development, and portfolio teams to meet business needs

5. Recruiting, training, and managing a team to achieve high-performance results

6. Coaching, mentoring, training, and motivating a team

7. Providing 24x7 support on critical systems in an on-call rotation

8. Building and deploying our customized applications (Fastenal.com, WEBPOS, WMS used by customers, our sales representatives, and Warehouse Employees) written in JAVA, MS DotNet, and C++ to Test and Production environments that are used by Fastenal’s Customers, Store Employees, Warehouse employees, and Vendors

9. Automating deployments on JBOSS, Web Logic, and IIS, which provides more accurate and faster delivery of our applications to end-users

10. Implementing, Managing, and administering our Continuous Integration and code review using the tools JIRA, Fisheye, and Crucible, which helps teams to plan, manage, and report on their work and helps software development life cycle

11. Automating, Building, and Deploying processes for generating digital certificates for securing Fastenal’s Internal and External websites to prevent insecure access to our website and ensure secure communication

12. Implementing Load Balancers like HAPROXY that are used to distribute load amongst backend servers which allows better use of infrastructure and less risk for our Websites and Applications

13. Implementing Taxware Systems that integrate with our HR/Financial systems and allow us to calculate Taxes for all Customer locations and employee paychecks

14. Implementing multiple environments for Vending Systems for QA/Development Team to run through SDLC and improve code quality and functionality for our customers

15. Implementing Cost Savings Deployments to automate the deployment process

Employer will accept a 3-year or 4-year bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field., Employer will accept a 3-year or 4-year bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field plus 3 years of work experience in IT systems engineering or administration.

Specific Skills:

1. Experience designing and implementing complex IT environments

2. Scripting experience (Bash, PowerShell, Python, or others)

3. Demonstrated knowledge of DevOps technologies and tools (Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence)

4. Previous leadership experience

5. Excellent written and oral communication skills

6. Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and prioritizing abilities

7. Exhibit strong problem-solving, deductive reasoning, and decision-making skills

8. Work independently as well as in a team environment

9. Highly motivated, self-directed, and customer service oriented

10. Demonstrate strong attention to detail, math aptitude, and a sense of urgency

11. Demonstrate our core values of ambition, innovation, integrity, and teamwork

12. Pass the required drug screen and background check (applicable in the US, Puerto Rico, and Guam ONLY)

Fastenal offers a competitive benefits package to all full-time employees. This package includes Health, Life, Long Term Disability, and Dental Insurance, in addition to, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, and 401(k) with an employer contribution.