Senior DevOps
Client description:
Our client is one of the largest companies in the electric power industry in US with a wide representation of offices in the state of California
Project Description:
Our client has a need to modernize and optimize infrastructure and deployment processes. We are seeking experienced Senior DevOps to join the team and participate in team’s initiatives.
Location: USA
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.
- Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Differently Abled
- Customer environment is “on prem” (not cloud).
Qualifications
- 5-7+ years of experience implementing/maintaining DevOps platforms within large, complex business environments. 5-7+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Jira, Git, Nexus, Tosca, SonarQube, etc.
- Experience transitioning from a System Administrator role.
- Strong Linux administration skills across various distributions.
- Proficient in system maintenance, including OS patching and support.
- Ability to upgrade and manage application versions effectively.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- 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
- 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