Engineer - DevOps

• Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
• Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact cross functional teams.
• Researches and may propose new technologies.
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives and prepares technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
• May own technical testing to ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
• Assesses current status and supports data information planning.
• Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system.
• Maintains technical development environment.
• Mentors others and may lead multiple or small to medium sized projects.
• Will begin to set direction at the project/service level and influences decision-making.
• Provides technical guidance, and mentoring.
• Maintain source repositories and encourage good practices in source control
• Support .NET and Java build automation processes
• Engage with test engineers to maintain automated testing processes
• Support developers in packaging software for distribution
• Perform application deployments to development, test, and production environments both on-premises and in the cloud
• Maintain application and environment configuration through automated processes
• Monitor testing and production environments to ensure stable operation
• Perform initial triage of application issues to ensure rapid resolution

This is part of a hybrid work schedule, if you are in Atlanta or Chicago and within 50 miles of the office you would come in 1-3x per month.

• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and continuous integration/delivery concepts
• Ability to work in both Windows and Linux environments
• Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker, openshift
• Experience working with deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, Cloudbees
• Fluency in one or more common scripting languages such as Python, Terraform, ansible , Groovy, Bourne shell, or PowerShell
• 5+ years working in a DevOps, application support or administration, or configuration engineering role
• 2+ years working in a hybrid public/private cloud environment including AWS, Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 5+ years related experience; multi dimensional platform experience; expert level experience with business and technical applications, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
• Collaborative attitude and an ability to build consensus among your technical peers
• Strong ability to communicate technical information to your non-technical peers
• Attention to detail & excellent communication skills is must.
• Experience developing and maintaining plugins and application support processes in IBM Urban Code Deploy
• Developing and deploying infrastructure as code using Terraform/CloudFormation
• Working on config management tools like Ansible/Chef/Puppet.
• Working / mentoring offshore team members.
• Developing Jenkins Pipeline build automation
• DockerEE or Kubernetes container orchestration tools
• Developing and deploying infrastructure as code
• Developing application monitors and alerts
• Experience with RDBMS as well as NoSQL data platforms.
• A strong understanding of IP networking, including load balancing, routing, and firewall concepts