Sr. DevOps Technical Lead _ NJ

Synechron Inc is looking to hire Sr. DevOps Technical Lead – Weehawken, NJ

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provides senior level consulting services to business groups on process improvement projects designed to improve IT and business management results.
• Develops and implements new processes, standards or operational plans that will have impact on the achievement of functional results.
• Participates in defining and formulating senior leadership’s IT strategy through the review of business objectives and value proposition.
• Advises senior leadership on future business direction and aligns IT with business priorities, strategies, and operating models.
• Recommends solutions or improvements to business processes that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
• Recommends long-term improvements and changes to organization’s IT systems to support future business direction and growth.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level professionals.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Administration of CI Tools (Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube)
• Build/Enhance new capabilities and features to expand CI/CD tools offerings
• Ensure availability of the CI products
• Continuously monitor, maintain and optimize performance of CI Tools
• Work closely with vendor in addressing any major upgrades, plug-ins and critical tickets
• Continuous review and improve the DevSecOps CICD pipeline to ensure seamless end to end process from Build to Deploy across ALL SDLC and Prod environments
• Work with global teams across the organization to troubleshoot critical CI tools related issues
• Serve as subject matter expert for leading Best practices across DevSecOps, CICD, Rapid Release and related end to end automation
• Stay current with relevant emerging technologies, assess application to DevSecOps Support challenges or opportunities determining business benefit and impact.
• Train and coach global team members to ensure proper Level1, Level2 support for the CI Tools.
• Perform POC on net new implementation of enterprise solutions
• Lead/support across teams to enhance developer driven DevSecOps delivery pipelines

Required Skills:

• 5 or more years of working experience with Industry standard DevSecOps CI/CD Tools including: source code repository management, CI pipeline configuration, and/or binary repository management.
• 5 or more years of Development experience using either of the development platform (Java, Python, .NET, JS)
• 5 or more years of hands on experience in building, enhancing, and creating automation for a CI/CD pipeline
• 3 or more years of experience with working with either Maven or Gradle
• 3 or more years of experience performing complex troubleshooting and performance tuning of various issues within CI/CD tool chain using industry standard monitoring tools.
• 2 or more years of container experience
• 2 or more years of continuous testing practices and enablement through CI/CD pipeline

Hands on knowledge on following tools:

• Groovy (must)
• Gitlab (must)
• Jenkins or equivalent CI Tool (must)
• Artifactory (must)
• Docker (must)

Preferred Skills

• Well versed with SAFe/Agile
• Security, Audit, Compliance
• Cloud platform – AWS
• Experience working in financial services
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with OpenShift
• Experience with Security Scanning tools - CheckMarx, Twistlock, Synk, X-ray, Sysdig, Contrast Security any similar tools 
• 1 or more years of site reliability engineering experience
• Experience in Java Application development, deployment, configuration, Unix and integration a plus

We can offer you:

• A highly competitive compensation and benefits package
• A multinational organization with 48 offices in 19 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
• Laptop and a mobile phone
• 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays)
• Maternity & Paternity leave plans
• A comprehensive insurance plan including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region)
• Retirement savings plans
• A higher education certification policy
• Commuter benefits (varies by region)
• Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development.
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups
• Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.
• A flat and approachable organization
• A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.