The Senior Engineer - DevOps is responsible for supporting our clients custom and off-the-shelf software through all phases of the lifecycle - through end to end application, systems development and maintenance. This role is hybrid in the following areas Chicago, Atlanta, Mason, OH or Richmond VA. Hybrid would come into the office 1-3x per month. 

Keys

• 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

Job Description

• 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.

Sponsorship is not available for this position.

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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. SPLICE and its clients are Equal Opportunity Employers and will not discriminate based on any factors. We don't discriminate or work with clients who do.