Lead Eng, DevOps

Date: May 8, 2025

Location:

Saint Louis, MO, US, 63101

Company: Spire Inc.

Company Overview

At Spire, we believe energy exists to help people. To enrich their lives, grow their businesses, advance their communities. It’s a simple idea, but one that’s at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to understanding the needs of the homes and businesses we serve. That's why we're always looking for driven, collaborative people to join our team. Because we believe that offering our customers the best service means bringing together the best people.

And we find the best by hiring those who share our values of drive, safety, inclusion and integrity, and demonstrate our four essential behaviors that bring the Spire vision, mission and culture to life:

• We make it happen: We are a company of go-getters, acting on every opportunity to help our company advance

• We collaborate: We put teamwork first, bringing in everyone’s ideas, because our collective energy makes us stronger

• We seek out perspective: We challenge ourselves to be open to different ways of doing things, because learning from each other leads to breakthroughs

• We care: We treat people how we want to be treated, listening closely and doing what’s right, even when it’s hard

  By living our values and behaviors every day, we strive to create an environment where every employee feels welcome, respected and valued.

Summary

Spire is seeking a Team Lead, DevOps Engineer to oversee Spire’s evolution in the DevOps journey. This role will be primarily responsible for providing oversight and guidance within a team of specialized DevOps Engineers to enhance, mature, and support a wide range of applications that enable Spire’s critical business processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand and support critical applications in Enterprise landscape.

• Lead and oversee migration standards within shared services group, partnering with leadership and Architects to execute on vision.

• Lead team in release management, and application migrations within specialized area.

• Oversee and influence built-in quality, partnering with Quality Assurance, as it pertains to unit/developer testing.

• Monitor performance issues, identify and execute long-term solutions.

• Respond to triage production issues related to integrations or scheduling operations and follow Service Level Agreement.

• Fully imbedded in development team, and participate in all ceremonies and planning, focused on acceptance criteria that is clear, precise, and testable.

• Accept work into the team backlog and own the commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each PI.

• Partner with Architects to understand technical landscape, as well as future roadmap to support middleware operations.

• Develop and update technical documentation.

• Ensure execution of overall ITS solution strategy, standards, and practices.

• Collaborate within the team, and across agile teams to ensure alignment in dependencies.

• Optimize, enhance, and support cybersecurity protocols as it relates to the shared service application suite.

• Account for application health and version control across all non-product environments.

Essential Characteristics and Competencies

Supervisory Responsibilities

Required Education (certifications, licenses)

• Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Information Technology, Technical Engineering or related discipline), or foreign equivalent.

Required knowledge, skill and abilities

• 7 years of relevant experience.

• 7 years of experience with UNIX/LINUX Server.

• 7 years of experience with Oracle WebLogic.

• 7 years of experience with Oracle database and RAC administration.

• 7 years of experience with SQL, SQL-Plus, Shell scripting and CRON coding knowledge

• 7 years of experience supporting with any combination of the applications (Oracle EBS, Customer Care & Billing, Maximo or Hyperion).

• 3 years of experience in continuous Integration/continuous deployment and release management tools (Gitlab and Jenkins

Physical demands, environment and schedule

• Position allows for telecommuting 3 days per week within a reasonable commuting distance of the reporting office in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Domestic travel required up to 5% of time.

Posting Requirements

Spire accepts online applications through our career site at jobs.spireenergy.com

Posting requirements: The above posting description is intended to describe the general nature of the level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Spire, Inc., and its subsidiaries are Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all areas, including but not necessarily limited to, recruitment, selection, training, education, compensation, benefits, promotion, job transfer, upgrading, separation and recall regardless of the individual’s race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, and/or other protected categories under all Federal, State, and local laws. For more information, please view our Integrity and Inclusion pages of our career site.

JOB Req ID: 10962

Job Segment: Database, DBA, Computer Science, Oracle, Quality Assurance, Technology

Job Req ID: 10962

Job Location: St Louis Job Segment: Quality Assurance, Database, Oracle, SQL, Computer Science, Technology

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