Job Description :
City :Chicago
State :IL
Visa : GC, GC EAD or US
Required Skills : Azure, SharePoint, PowerShell scripting, Git and TFS 2010+, VSTS, and C#/C++
Basic Qualifications :
? Come in and hit the ground running with a Microsoft skillset ? Helping them on SharePoint (2013), some possible azure integrations ? Manage their git repository in Microsoft ? Self-starter – curious perspective
Job Description :
Role Specific Responsibilities
Ensure user visible uptime and quality, providing operational and development expertise in making our systems fail rarely, and automatically fix when they do fail
Minimize manual involvement by designing & implementing continuous improvements that create an operating environment, including the development of new tools, dynamically monitoring, alerting, & automated self-healing & recovery
Participate in architecture and design reviews to provide recommended improvements to the development teams to improve the reliability and performance of applications
Identify and/or analyze problems relating to mission critical services and implement automation to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
Engage in application performance analysis and system tuning, and capacity planning
Perform root cause analysis to identify & implement continuous improvements
Capable of presenting analyses and recommendations to leadership or discussing the technical merits of solutions with engineers and architects.
Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of services and server infrastructure
Practice Agile and Scrum methodologies
Education: Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in engineering or related
Years of Experience: 7+
Strong experience with SharePoint platform operations and/or software engineering
Strong experience with PowerShell scripting
Strong experience with TFS 2010+, VSTS, or similar ALM tool
Experience with Git or similar development repo
Experience with Selenium or similar test automation tools
Working knowledge of Office 365 and Azure, particularly SharePoint Online and Azure Storage
Knowledge of AvePoint DocAve and Governance Automation
Experience developing in a software development language (e.g., preferably C#/C++)
Experience and knowledge of database technologies, particularly MS SQL
Knowledge of virtualization and its benefits for improving reliability
Strong experience with instrumentation, monitoring, alerting, and responding relative to performance and availability of applications
Capable of technical deep dives into infrastructure, databases, and application, specifically in designing, coding, operating, and supporting high-performance, highly available services and infrastructure
Experience in designing for failure, including disaster recovery and business continuity planning
Experience operating and supporting mission-critical applications (e.g. incident and outage management)
Passionate for making things better and driving action with a sense of urgency
Creative and innovative, taking a thorough, design-driven approach
Experience problem solving issues on globally distributed systems and critical product service environments
Knows what is possible using latest networking, infrastructure, database, and application technologies to driving automation and reliability improvements
Brings new thinking to challenge existing technology and processes
Excellent at building relationships across teams
Firm sense of accountability and ownership
Desire to understand our businesses and users
Understanding of the concepts and principles behind DevOps, SRE, CICD, Agile, Lean, etc.
Use of DevOps tools to deliver and operate end-user services a plus (e.g., Chef, New Relic, Puppet, etc.
Notes :
Azure, SharePoint, PowerShell scripting, Git and TFS 2010+, VSTS, and C#/C++