This is an Azure Devops Engineer
Long Term Rolling Contract - 2 days onsite in St. Louis, 3 Days remote weekly
Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead and oversee migration standards, release management and application deliverable migrations within the Shared Services group, and partnering with stakeholders to execute on vision.
• Responsible for the Release Management lifecycle that involves the stages such as scheduling the release, coordinating between teams, and deployment of release as per the schedule on-premise and cloud applications.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline and contribute towards in DevOps automation scripts to improve system reliability and efficiency.
• Identify and manage the risks that may delay the release, to ensure the quality and scope are not compromised.
• Continuously improve the release management process to increase efficiency and quality.
• Develop CI/CD pipeline with Gitlab, Jenkins build, Artifactory and Ansible to facilitate rapid deployment and testing of infrastructure and configuration changes for multiple Agile development teams.
• Responds, when required, to triage production issues related to DevOps duties and follow Service Level Agreement set forth.
• Fully imbedded in Shared Services team, and participates in all agile ceremonies and planning
• Accepts work into the team backlog and owns the commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each PI.?
• Responsible for optimizing, enhancing, and supporting cybersecurity protocols as it relates to the Shared Service application suite
• Research and implement new technology to keep the team at the front of innovation.
Essential Characteristics and Competencies
• Demonstrate servant leader mindset
• Ability to teach and mentor, fostering an environment of continuous learning and progress
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycles
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the ART
• Ability to recognize problems and respond, systematically gather information, sort through complex issues, understand consequences of decisions, provides recommendation, and seeks input from leadership
Supervisory Responsibilities
• No direct supervision required, but indirect technical leadership required.
Required Education (certifications, licenses)
- Bachelor's degree - Computer Science, Information Technology, or Technical Engineering required
- 5 years of experience in IT Release management and DevOps required
- SAFe certification(s) a plus
- DevOps certification(s) a plus
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, Dockers and Kubernete
- Experience with Oracle and SQL server databases
- Experience with Linux and Windows Operation Systems
- Experience developing in an agile environment a plus
- Advanced knowledge of software development tools and methodologies like Agile & DevOps.
- Advanced knowledge of DevSecOps CI/CD processes and IT Release management
- Advanced knowledge in Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, Dockers, Kubernetes, Terraform and equivalent DevOps tools.
- Working knowledge of Source Control best practices
- Strong scripting experience (JavaScript, Groovy, Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Strong analytical skills/capabilities to solve complex issues arising during design and testing phases