Sr DevOps Architect - 100 Remote

Sr DevOps Architect

Duration: 12 months (Likely to extend)

Location: Remote

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of experience implementing/maintaining DevOps platforms within large complex business environments.
  

Minimum of 7 years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins Jira Git Nexus Tosca SonarQube etc.

• 7 years of experience interfacing collaborating and negotiating with team members all levels of management different departments and vendors to develop solutions facilitate cooperation between different parties and obtain stakeholder buyin.
  
• Ability to analyze complex data and draw accurate and relevant conclusions.
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
• Experience leading discussions involving senior level technical SMEs from Application and Infrastructure teams.
  
• Demonstrated experience as a technical Player/Lead Hands on the keyboard engineer who pulls work 50% of the capacity and 50% as a technical mentor for the other engineers
  
• Ability to classify maintenance work vs project work accurately estimate them
  
• Determine robust support models to define intake refine runbooks for version updates patches breakfixes bugfixes deployment windows across QA and Prod
  
• Create and Maintain operational plan with SLAs planned / unplanned outage communications. KPIs and help set that up.
  
• Agile collaborative and consultant mindset who can play well with the team meet where the client is currently and ability to evolve their DevOps platform over time.
  
• Jira Administration Experience (onboarding new people upgrades noncloud based administration)
  
• Testing tools that is a plus to be helpful with again as an admin not as a test engineer who will write scripts for:
  

• IBM OPTIM and Virtual Data Pipeline
  
• Tosca
  
• Plutora
  

Role and Responsibilities:

• Develop build test and deploy DevOps tools to create consistent verifiable and automatic management of application and infrastructure within the Grid domain.
  
• Work on the CI/CD deployment by collaborating with crossfunctional teams including domain architects application Cybersecurity Infrastructure and other subject matter experts. Requires coming up to speed rapidly with the SCE organization and key stakeholders.
  
• Design and implement tool integration with existing tools such as Remedy Splunk etc. within the DevOps platform.
  
• Gather and analyze requirements and develop test plans for solution validation.
  
• Review and enhance comprehensive best practices and setup process standards for maintenance and operations of the DevOps frameworks.
  
• Train and guide the team with streamlined DevOps best practices.
  
• Support onboarding and operations of client applications that will utilize the DevOps platform for their Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
  
• Develop and publish monthly metrics and reporting to measure efficiencies and overall DevOps Platform cycle improvements.