Sr DevOps Architect - 100% Remote

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.