Job Description :
Software Engineer - IV
This is a 12 months contract position located at Minneapolis, MN, AND Atlanta, GA
Payrate - Up to $145/hour
Qualifications:
8 to 10 years in IT with at least 5+ years of software related DevOps experience is required (software development with DevOps engineering/build engineering preferred)
Previous experience in development, software maintenance, and infrastructure, or technical operations support
Solid diagnostic, analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills
Ability to develop scripts
4-year college degree, in a technical field, from an accredited college/university a plus
Deep understanding of SDLC DevOps/Release Engineering and Automated deployment processes and project management methodologies including Waterfall and Agile
Experience with supporting Jenkins, SVN, Nexus, & Atlassian Suite (Fisheye/Crucible, Jira, Confluence)
Extensive experience with Linux and Windows.
Demonstrate strong problem analysis problem resolution and decision-making and judgment skills
Demonstrate excellent and effective interpersonal and communication skills with ability to build positive relationships with all levels of the organization
Self-motivated with creativity to tackle hard-to-solve problems
Ability to work independently and within a distributed team environment
Strong interpersonal, teamwork, problem solving, organizational and multi-tasking skills
Strong written and verbal communications skills
Knowledge and experience configuring and customizing commercial and open source software
Experience with configuration management processes and tools
Experience with Perl, Java, other JVM languages, and JavaScript
Experience with build automation using Maven
Demonstrate good conflict management skills and decisiveness
Be able to effectively manage time with multiple, concurrent initiatives and changing priorities
Responsibilities:
Job Summary:
Responsible for the tools, code, and processes associated with building and deploying code. This includes source code management and build artifact management to support deployment into the test and production environments, and development of processes with a focus on automation for the Retail Payment Office (RPO Candidate maintains and operates a collection of applications that support the software development lifecycle, including Jenkins, Jira, TaskTop, Nexus, Maven, SVN, and Confluence. In addition, candidate develops and deploys automation code to operate and monitor these systems using a wide variety of open source technologies. Candidate requires collaboration, open communication, and reaching across functional borders. Candidate must possess a track record of being a self-directed and creative team member in a fast-paced, dynamic environment supporting complex software applications while being a strong contributor to a diverse range of projects.
Key Activities:
Provide DevOps tool maintenance and enhancement solutions across the DevOps stack – Subversion, Jenkins, Nexus, Tasktop, Maven, and Jira.
Provide strong internal customer focus on business unit automation enablement; build and deploy automation, scripting, web service administration, and code management.
Develop and ensure DevOps standards and practices are adhered to by development teams. .
Serve as an escalation point for technical impediments.
Create technical documents to implement the solutions and guide the implementations, to meet requirements, as needed.
Support vendor product evaluations, and work with selected vendors to enable selected products.
Ability to articulate DevOps solutions to various levels .
Collaborate with staff to provide DevOps solutions as necessary.
Support build server activities to execute the CI/CD processes in a clear maintainable manor with high-visibility into the build test and deployment phases.
Work with application teams to help them adopt continuous build inspection testing and deployment.
Help to configure DevOps stack with