DevOps Engineer (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a DevOps Engineer for our client in Pennington, NJ. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Job Description:

• This role is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. This role ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. These individuals possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Support enterprise level SDLC tools. This includes tools such as Cloudbees Jenkins, Redhat Ansible, RedHat OpenShift, Xebia XLR and SonarQube.
• Participate and guide team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.
• Design/develop/modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained.
• Design/develop/maintain automated test suites (integration, regression, performance).
• Set up and develop a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.
• Automate manual release activities.
• Mentor other Software Engineers and coach team on CI-CD practices and automating tool stack.

Role Based Competencies:

• Solution Design - Has demonstrated the ability to design and develop significant components within an application; has performed code reviews.
• Test Engineering - Proficient in designing, developing, and executing test cases. Knowledge of Test Automation and tools.
• DevOps and Release Automation - Ability to perform or support continuous integration and deployment activities within their role. Understanding and appreciation for DevOps culture.
• Application & Data Architecture - Possesses an understanding of architecture and bank standards. Participates in or supports delivery of architecture designs and implementations

Desired Skills Supporting Competencies:

• Solution Delivery Process - Understands all roles and responsibilities within their team and uses the tool sets within the software lifecycle.
• Governance & Stakeholder Management - Contributes to artifacts needed for governance forums; Understands stakeholder expectations and creates regular updates to keep stakeholders informed.
• Business Products & Strategy - Working knowledge of products, services, business flows and understanding of financial context in which technology and operating principles are used within their business area.
• Risk Management - Understands risks and can apply the controls necessary to mitigate. Knows when to escalate risks.
• Financials & Resource Management - Basic understanding of financial data and the impact that their role has within a team.
• Planning, Execution & Process - Facilitates team planning ceremonies against backlog/prioritized work. Manages risk/dependencies/impediments for one team. Ability to answer teams Agile/waterfall framework questions
• Analytical Thinking - Demonstrates ability to identify root causes to solve complex problems in highly unstable situations.
• Promotes Collaboration - Collaborates with own team and across teams. Asks questions to obtain views from others.
• Influences Decisions - Presents their own point of view with a clear rationale, facts and figures. Clearly displays how their proposed solution or course of action is superior to other options by using facts/evidence to support it.
• Achieves Sustainable Results - Tracks the effectiveness of solutions through KPI's. Incorporates technical and financial factors when comparing different approaches to solutions.

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