Technical Consultant - DevOps Services (Environment and Deployment Excellence)

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

As a Technical Consultant specializing in environment and release management, you will be a key member of the Veeva Technical Services team. You will be working on our industry-leading Vault Platform, which powers all Veeva applications across the Commercial and Dev Cloud spaces.

The role requires a technical mindset: you will take care not only of the release standards, but the release package creation, the version control system built around it, the data migration itself, and the troubleshooting. We use a dedicated “toolset base” that includes free source ones as well as massive in-house built and continuously upgraded applications.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement release strategies and configuration distribution models

• Define and enforce standards for development, configuration deployment, and environment management

• Build, test, and deploy configuration packages through automated CI/CD pipelines and version control systems

• Responsible for managing and synchronizing multiple project workstreams, proactively identifying and mitigating risks arising from cross-project dependencies

• Create and maintain Vault sandbox environments for production, QA, and development purposes

• Serve as a subject matter expert to help establish environment management strategies for new customers

• Analyze and propose optimal deployment solutions for new product features

• Collaborate with the developer teams, and support their work

• Contribute to internal projects by developing innovative tools to improve deployment quality, efficiency, and speed

• Deliver knowledge transfers and provide ad-hoc training to customer teams

Requirements

• Experience & Education:

• 2+ years of professional experience in software development, DevOps, or a similar technical role

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or equivalent practical experience

• Proven experience in full lifecycle software implementation projects

• Candidates must be eligible for employment in Europe

• Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git)

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities

• Solid understanding of the following:

• Relational databases

• API principles and web services

• Continuous Integration (CI/CD) pipelines

• XML

• Package automation and deployment

• Qualities & Communication:

• A passion for technology and a drive to solve complex challenges

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to support technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Direct experience designing or working within a cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure)

• Familiarity with the end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC) and its associated tools, such as Jenkins, Selenium, and GitHub

• Practical programming and code-reviewing skills, particularly with languages like Python, Java, or Shell scripting

• Proven experience building or integrating with RESTful APIs

Perks & Benefits

• Stock bonus %

• Health & wellness programs

• Life Assurance

• Veeva charitable giving program

• Free lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Veeva office

• Additional annual leave over Christmas break