DevOps Architect

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking DevOps Architect to design, implement, and manage robust DevOps strategies that enable seamless development, deployment, and operation of applications and services. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between development and operations teams, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and reliability of software delivery pipelines.

Experience:

• 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.

• 7+ years of experience interfacing, collaborating, and negotiating with team members, all levels of management, different departments, and vendors to develop solutions, facilitate cooperation between different parties, and obtain stakeholder buy-in.
• Ability to analyze complex data and draw accurate and relevant conclusions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience leading discussions involving senior level technical SMEs from Application and Infrastructure teams.
• 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
• Architect and implement infrastructure solutions
• Determine robust support models to define intake, refine runbooks for version updates, patches, break-fixes, bug-fixes, deployment windows across QA and Prod
• Create and Maintain operational plan with SLAs, planned / unplanned outage communications. KPIs and help set that up.
• Integrate security best practices into the DevOps pipeline (DevSecOps)
• 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

Role and 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.
• Inform Delivery Lead of capability dependencies, mentor DevOps engineers and advisors
• Train and guide the team with streamlined DevOps best practices.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders supporting projects such as GMS, EMS, FAN, ORCA, etc
• 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.
• Provide DevOps technology platform and strategic roadmap guidance based on collective projects outlook