DevOps Engineer / Solutions Architect (Closed)

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

Job Description:

• EAE (Enterprise Architecture & Engineering) Solution Architects are technical leaders responsible for solution designs that exceed Client expectation in terms of function and performance while also adhering to divisional and Enterprise policy, standards, and strategy. Our primary goal is establishment of innovative and efficient EAE solution architecture designs, standards, and guidelines which describes both current and evolutionary path forward target states. We drive and manage EAE portfolio technical vision in collaboration with agile delivery teams to collectively deliver desired business outcomes. With a strong sense of ownership for both personal deliverables and value stream goals, we perform role functions including:
• Creating technical designs for architecturally significant EAE business and technical change
• Collaborating with delivery teams on implementation according to design, standards, and best practices
• Evaluating vendor and in house solutions against architectures standards and technical requirements
• Managing value stream architecture runway and technical debt backlog with input from key stakeholders e.g. Product Manager/Owner, Feature Lead
• Providing acceptance of architecturally significant epics to ensure implementation aligns with design and Enterprise standards
• Documenting solution architecture standards and guidelines for the EAE portfolio
• Collaborating with peer Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects on cohesive and consistent architecture approaches and best practices

Required Skills:

• Broad and deep experience working in varied software development platforms and environments including Linux, Windows, Java, .Net, Python, Javascript, vendor packages, Tomcat/JBoss, data & analytics, etc.
• Technical expertise with DevOps automation and enablement technologies including Jenkins, Ansible/Tower, Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.
• Process expertise across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) i.e. requirements definition, build, test, deploy, release, operate
• Strong, independent, ownership focused technical leader requiring minimal oversight including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
• Ability and desire to perform hands on POC work to comprehensively assess applicability and impact of technology and patterns to our solution designs
• Design and/or development experience with complex, integrated, high volume applications for resiliency and performance leveraging both application (e.g. caching, replication) and infrastructure components (e.g. load balancers, clustering)
• Knowledge of security aspects of integrated system design and associated protocols e.g. AAA, token based authz, encryption
• Ability to provide clear, concise technical guidance to the delivery partners along (e.g. developers, engineers) with comprehensive status communication to program management (e.g. product owners, scrum masters)
• Experience with agile methodologies, routines, and tools

Desired Skills:

• Production level experience with microservices/SOA enabling tools e.g. API Management, Kubernetes/Docker, service gateway/meshes, Swagger
• Technical experience with web application UI frameworks e.g. Angular, React
• Hands on data modeling and system design experience for both relational & NOSQL databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Redis, Mongo) along with batch and streaming analytics tooling (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka)
• Technical experience with BPM/RPA process automation environments e.g. Pega, Appian

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