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 buy-in.
- 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, break-fixes, bug-fixes, 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 mind-set 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, non-cloud 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 cross-functional 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.