Position: Sr DevOps Architect Remote
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months (Likely to extend)
Required Exp 15 Years
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.