Sr Dev Ops Engineer

Job description

Our client, a top 5 global financial services company, is hiring a Sr. DevOps Engineer (Vice President) in the Irving, Texas area.

THE CLIENT IS REQUESTING CANDIDATES BE VACCINATED (Covid Vaccine)

REMOTE/ONSITE WORK

As a Sr. DevOps Engineer in ICG Engineering and Architecture Practice, you'll work closely with application delivery teams and other enterprise teams to enable DevOps culture and advance Continuous Delivery capabilities. Your focus will be in the areas of advocating and improving Developer Experience, automation of CI/CD Pipeline and underlying toolchain, and enabling application delivery teams to achieve agility. In this role, you'll influence the culture and strategic direction of DevOps adoption throughout the organization, help lead our client towards being fully automated, everything as Code, explore/introduce new tools, techniques, and practices into the organization to maximize business value and agility.

Job responsibilities:

• Strong infrastructure (provisioning, service configuration, orchestration, monitoring) experience using Ansible
• Proactive personality with a proven track record of following through and delivering on responsibilities
• Highly adaptive and working as part of an extended team
• Understand the process and technical complexities of performing application builds, deployments, and releases
• Improve and extend the existing process to an unattended delivery pipeline (Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Testing)
• Skilled in concepts such as REST/SOAP API and application interface programming.
• Knowledgeable on DSL specifications such as YML, JSON and XML
• Demonstrated scripting abilities (Shell scripting, Python, Groovy or Perl)
• Strong knowledge on application build tools such as Maven, Gradle and MS Build.
• Strong knowledge on source code repository (GIT/Bitbucket) including branching and merging strategies
• Drive the automation opportunities in the build, deployment, and release arena encompassing various technologies and tools
• Be a key contributor to initiatives that require technical expertise
• Strong Jenkins experience
• Ability to automate software builds and release configurations
• Strong Knowledge on SonarQube and Artifactory
• Good understanding of OpenShift pipelines, Docker, Tekton or Helm Charts
• Good understanding on Platform build tools such as Terraform
• Strong Knowledge on Deployment Tools such as IBM UDeploy/Harness.IO.
• Designing and implementing workflows to automate the release and upgrade process for applications in Dev, UAT and Production environments
• Document as-is state of environment, gap analysis, come up with options, recommendations

Qualifications:

• 6 to 10 years of solid experience in Infrastructure and Software Configuration Management
• 3 -5 years of experience in performing DevOps role (Environment Provisioning, Continuous Deployment, Application Deployment and Orchestration)
• 3+ years of hands on experience with Docker, Containers and OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• 3+ Years of experience with Harness/uDeploy Build Automation tool
• 3+ Years of experience on Python scripting.
• 2+ Years of experience configuring pipelines to deploy containers on-premises or cloud.
• 2+ Years of experience on Repository Management tools (Artifactory/Nexus)
• Strong Documentations skills to prepare build/deployment/POC Documents

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred