Texas Residents Only No Relocations
I. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES Texas Health and Human Services Commission requires the services of 1 DevOps Engineer 3 hereafter referred to as Candidate(s) who meets the general qualifications of DevOps Engineer 3 Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Level Description 8 or more years of experience relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals independently performs a variety of complicated tasks a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Job Description Works with IT developers to facilitate better coordination among operations development and testing functions by automating and streamlining integration and deployment processes. DevOps aims at coupling a tighter alignment between IT operations and businesses. Additional job details and special considerations The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of one DevOps Engineer 3 hereafter referred to as Worker who meets the general qualification of DevOps Engineer 3 and the specifications outlined in this document for the abovenamed customer. As a key member of the DevSecOps team this DevOps Engineer 3 will (a) Develop review modify and enhance CI/CD principles (b) Install configure and maintain CI/CD tools & platforms (c) Develop and maintain CI/CD pipeline configurations (d) Automate processes and (e) Develop monitor and optimize Batch Jobs and Operations. In addition this DevOps engineer will be assigned to install configure build and deploy applications in support of Eligibility Supporting Technology applications. This position is central to ensuring these applications and services remain current across all development test training and production environments. This DevOps engineer will also provide environment triage support. This responsibility includes both workday and night/weekend oncall support for all development test training and production environments. This service helps maintain high availability for developers testers trainers and production end users. This position works under minimal direction with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Roles and Responsibilities: - Develop monitor and optimize Batch Jobs and Operations.
- Analyzes the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion.
- Implements and enhances an advanced CI/CD solution. Develops codes tests builds installs configures and maintains IT solutions.
- Analyzes processes and deployments and proposes improvements to streamline code deployments and minimize errors.
- Uses configuration management software to automatically deploy updates and fixes into the various production & nonproduction environments.
- Documents processes and procedures.
- Support Production and NonProduction related activities and issues.
- Support releases and sprint related activities.
- Provide enterprise level solutions for existing automation in place while developing new solutions.
- Develop proposal plan for approval.
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. |
Years | Required/ Preferred | Experience |
10 | Required | Experience automating “fulllife cycle” of complex enterprise IT env. using IaC CaC & CI/CD tools integrated into 1 unified solution supporting standup of new env or frequent mod to existing env in areas such as IBM WebSphere MQ & Oracle products AWS |
10 | Required | Designing and Implementing automation solutions for scalability repeatability and recoverability |
10 | Required | Proven ability and experience designing and implementing advanced automation solutions using tools such as Terraform Terragrunt Ansible Automation Platform Github actions Jenkins Liquibase etc. |
8 | Required | Experience with one or more programming/script languages such as Python GoLang Shell Ruby bash shell Perl |
8 | Required | Experience with Containers and Container orchestration Kubernetes platforms such as PODMAN docker EE/OpenShift/Rancher And packaging tools such as Helm Charts and Kustomize |
8 | Required | Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems |
8 | Required | Experience designing and implementing solutions using AWS Wellarchitected framework |
8 | Required | Excellent written and verbal communication skills |
5 | Preferred | Development experience using Java J2EE Java Spring Boot EJB JSP JSF/Struts (JavaServer Faces Apache Struts Framework) XML is a significant plus |
5 | Preferred | Experience with WebSphere ND MQ Oracle Java SQL tools (PL/SQL developer SQL plus) LDAP Splunk Dynatrace. |