DevOps Engineer

Position: DevOps Engineer Duration: 3-6 Months CTH Location: Plano , TX This is a W2 position that requires candidates to be onsite for 2- 3 days in a week (Hybrid role). Job Description: Looking for DevOps Engineer to provide strategic direction on and execute infrastructure, security, continuous integration, deployment, and IT operations practices, scaling and metrics, as well as running day-to-day operations of production and development process, tools for Digital Platform. If you possess a can-do attitude, are driven by research, problem solving, and thrive on challenges, we want to speak with you. The successful candidate enjoys continuing improvement of communication skills, understanding of the domain, in which the digital platform is being written, and crucially, a sensitive and passion for the underlying business and for ensuring it succeeds. You'll apply your past experience with all aspects of technical operations to develop an innovative approach to simplify and streamline processes to increase system scalability and reliability, improve efficiency and minimize errors. You'll work closely with Development and QA teams to provide continuous improvement of existing features and rollout of new services, ensuring high availability of our platform. You're comfortable with infrastructure and configuration, but happy to roll up your sleeves, with tests, debug and rollout new releases. The candidate will specifically work to manage and execute software release builds and deployments for both Java applications running on WebSphere, Tomcat App Servers. Given the wide range of applications supported by DIGITAL group, the candidate will also be expected to execute database updates on different platforms. These deployments will span Development, Certification, QA, Performance and Production environments. Development in the DIGITAL group takes place in Columbus, Plano, New York, West Cost and India during all hours of the day. As such the candidate will be providing 24 hour daily technical support to all development teams. The candidate is expected to work closely with the development teams who manage UI, middleware, and back-end code. The candidate is also expected provide some extent of GIT using Bitbucket/GitHub support for all different code sets across the DIGITAL group. Experience in build automation using Maven, Gradle Jython, Python, Groovy, Jenkins and Perl is a must. Candidate must have through understanding of Software Configuration Management (SCM) and release process and best practices. This position will report to a DevOps Lead, who will coordinate with various teams in DIGITAL group to execute on the delivery approach to meet multiple concurrent project delivery needs. Job Requirements: Development exposure to Java technologies. Experience with Ant, Maven, Gradle and Python, Perl for script automation. Git administration and deployment skills, training, and experience. Knowledge base on WebSphere, Tomcat Application Servers. Experience with Atlassian tools like Bamboo, Jira, confluence. Experience with Db2, Oracle and SQL databases preferred. Strong Linux and Windows. Job Responsibilities: For on boarding exiting application, performing Knowledge transition from Development team to SCM team on build and deployment process. For New applications, work with development to get the requirements of application build and deployment process. Once the process KT is complete from development team, build engineer role is to write build and deployment scripts according to SCM team standards and processes to IST, QA , Performance and Production Environments. After completing of the script's development and process setup, build engineer role is expected to execute the builds and deployments to all above environments based on weekly scheduled build calendar. Build engineer is required to perform smoke/sanity tests for the applications deployed and also troubleshoot the application for the issues that arise as part of the smoke test process. Build engineer is expected to learn the architecture of all the applications to help trouble shoot any issues for each application. Build engineer need to periodically analyse the hardware and software capacities of build infrastructure and provide appropriate recommendation to the Management team for improvements and immediate attention. Build Engineer is required to be proficient in Ant, Shell and Per Scripting. Should be familiar with Code Management Tools like. SCM Process regarding Build, Release and Source Code Management. TriOptus LLC