DevOps/Build & Release Engineer (Remote)

This position serves as a technical DevOps expert responsible for the design, implementation, and support of cloud-based information technology solutions in current and future state. This role includes building, maintaining, and operationalizing infrastructure, security services, and system components in commercial or government cloud service providers to deliver highly available and scalable services. The level of work required is considered advanced and staff must be able to work under minimal supervision. This position is also responsible for collaborating with other peer technicians and application developers to establish shared responsibilities to maintain, improve, and develop our cloud presences (primarily Salesforce and Microsoft Azure, but also AWS, ServiceNow, SharePoint, etc). Additional duties require a thorough knowledge of Microsoft Servers (v2008 and greater) for proper configuration, in support of application/code deployments through any given SLDC, which this position will also be responsible for overseeing. Additional, this candidate will lead DevOps initiatives for new Bot & RPA technologies that are still in their infancy, or those that have yet to start.

Key Activities:

• Lead the operational design, maintenance, and operation of cloud-based platforms (Salesforce, Azure, AWS, etc.)
• Lead discussion and provide guidance to technical teams regarding operational, technical, and procedural best practices and functional experience
• Lead automation efforts to minimize manual work and ensure transparency in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem
• Lead efforts with stakeholders to obtain and translate requirements into technical implementations
• Lead efforts to integrate existing legacy systems with proposed systems by identifying gaps between the current and future state, and potentially lead the implementation of solutions
• Oversee and develop continuous delivery and continuous integration frameworks and tools
• Setup framework, processes, and operations for infrastructure as code and automation
• Lead technical and end-user resources to execute detailed tests and analyze testing results.
• Document and communicate issues, solutions, and timelines to appropriate stakeholders
• Assist with implementation of customer side monitoring tools and lead operation outage events
• Provide timely/responsive technical support and leadership both within and across departments and applications including rotational 24/7 on call support

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree from a two-year college or technical school or equivalent combination of education and/or work-related experience.
• At least two of the following Operating System training/certifications preferred: Microsoft Certified System Administration; Engineer training/certifications; Microsoft Certified Solution Expert. Current Unix/Linux Operating System training/certifications.
• Current Salesforce AD201 & AD301 is mandatory.
• Current SharePoint Core Solutions certification.

· At least ten years of computer systems analyst/network administrator experience.

· 1+ year working with cloud-based Bot framework.

• 5+ years working with cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.) in an enterprise environment
• 7+ years software engineering experience in a team-based environment Advanced experience integrating legacy platforms and applications with cloud-based systems
• Advanced experience with code deployments in an iterative (Agile) approach
• Advanced experience with integrating SaaS providers and working in a multivendor integrated environment
• Advanced experience with Web Services, API, REST, RPC * Advanced knowledge of cloud-based platforms AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
• Strong Understanding of advanced networking concepts
• Advanced experience with deploying, managing, operating and monitoring of applications in scalable, highly available and fault tolerant data centers (both on premise and hosted)
• Advanced experience learning, sharing, and implementing best practices with the ability to define operational processes, implement DevOps, deployment checklists, etc.
• Advanced ability to solve problems by considering available information, prioritizing and making timely decisions; correlate data using standard business and technology tools and approaches, spot trends and apply sound security and risk management principles
• Advanced ability to assess necessary activities and prioritize for completion of assignments using excellent time management, prioritization skills and work ethic
• Strong verbal and written communications skills required. Must be able to create and deliver presentations to technical and/or business audience.
• Advanced ability in use of typical office-related technical tools such as Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint and Office.
• Advanced ability in use of Atlassian suite of products such as Confluence and Jira.
• Advanced experience with Flosum for cloud-based deployments.
• Experience with source code management tools (Git, SVN, etc.)
• Experience with CI/build tools

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $0.00 per year

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• On Call

Experience:

• as Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint and Office.: 10 years (Required)
• * Advanced experience with Web Services, API, REST, RPC: 1 year (Required)
• Flosum for cloud-based deployments: 5 years (Required)
• Atlassian suite of products such as Confluence and Jira: 7 years (Required)
• integrating SaaS providers and working in a multivendor: 1 year (Required)
• -best practices with Dev-Ops ability to define operational: 1 year (Required)
• Engineer training/certifications: 1 year (Required)
• Microsoft Certified System Administration: 1 year (Required)
• environment Advanced integrating legacy platforms: 7 years (Required)
• Unix/Linux Operating System training/certifications: 1 year (Required)
• Microsoft Certified Solution Expert: 1 year (Required)
• * Current Salesforce AD201 & AD301: 1 year (Required)
• software development: 10 years (Required)
• * Strong Understanding of advanced networking concepts: 1 year (Required)
• SharePoint Core Solutions certification: 1 year (Required)
• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.) in an enterprise environment: 5 years (Required)
• highly available and fault tolerant data centers: 1 year (Required)
• working with cloud-based Bot framework: 1 year (Required)
• code deployments in an iterative (Agile) approach: 1 year (Required)
• computer systems analyst/network administrator: 10 years (Required)

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Work Location:

• One location
• Fully Remote

Work Remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19