Position Description:

Designs technical solutions and software applications using DevOps practices. Provides automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for applications using Jenkins Artifactory, Maven, Docker, Groovy, and Shell and Python scripts. Performs troubleshooting, security monitoring, and provisioning and maintaining databases. Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts. Designs applications or subsystems on major projects and for/in multiple platforms. Develops applications for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Supports and performs all phases of testing leading to implementation.

• Assists in the planning and conducting of user acceptance testing.

• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications supporting several corporate initiatives.

• Performs post-installation testing of any problems.

• Establishes project plans for projects of moderate scope.

• Works on complex assignments and often multiple phases of a project.

• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several initiatives.

• Analyzes information to determine, recommend, and plans computer software specifications on major projects and proposing modifications and improvements based on user need.

• Develops software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent)in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer (or closely related occupation) building automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for applications using Jenkins Artifactory, Maven, Docker, Groovy, and Shell and Python scripts.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and one (1) year of experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer (or closely related occupation) building automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for applications using Jenkins Artifactory, Maven, Docker, Groovy, and Shell and Python scripts.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”)performing Linux and Windows systems administration including, troubleshooting, security monitoring, and performance tuning databases -- MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, and Redis lab; and using Groovy to write Jenkins’s pipeline libraries, composing pipeline as code using scripted and declared Jenkins pipelines, and designing and administering Opensource databases -- MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, and Redis lab -- using Flyway.

• DEperforming Continuous Integration (CI) of build and deploy processes, using Jenkins, Git, Maven, Ant, IBM Urban Code Deploy, Artifactory, and Remote Execution Engine; and testing Defined Benefits (DB) client servers -- desktop, DB Enterprise Server Batches, NetBenefits, and PSW.

• DEanalyzing technology solutions for supporting model deployment and integration in Cloud and on-premises environments; and building model deployment and integration workflows, using Amazon Web Services (AWS), on-premises Hadoop, and UNIX platforms through Python scripts, Cron jobs, Docker images, and APIs.

• DE provisioning application infrastructure on AWS Cloud platform using CloudFormation templates for creating services -- ECS (AWS Elastic Container Services), Route53, S3, RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service), and IAM (AWS Identity and Access Management); and building scalable infrastructure for Microservices utilizing ECS by creating task definition JSON files.

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