Role: Automation Engineer - Senior Estimated Duration/Hours: 4000 hours Work Location and Type: 1 North Old State Capital Plaza, Springfield, IL.

See Note Below Note: This role will work 3 days per week for a 3-week introductory period at the beginning of the
contract at 1 North Old State Capital Plaza, Springfield, IL. After the introductory period and
assuming expected work quality and output, the candidate should anticipate being on site 3 days
per month. The client may request up to 3 additional days per month on an as-needed, project demand basis.

Project Summary & Overview
We seek a Senior Automation Engineer to participate in our Product Management Transformation
project, which will transform how our team delivers ongoing technical support, services, and
capabilities to our customers. As our Senior Automation Engineer, you will help implement a new
CI/CD and ADO process that will serve as a model across the organization. You will call upon your
knowledge and experience of Agile and SCRUM Methodology, Azure DevOps (ADO), Source Control
Branching, Jira, and Jira integration with ADO daily.
Job Responsibilities:
Define and implement strategies for continuous integration and release management for
Services and Solutions.
Drive the adoption of application deployment strategies.
Support and improve tools for continuous integration, automated testing, and release
management.
Act as a technologist to guide development teams through continuous integration adoption
and best DevOps practices.
Create and manage pipelines for code generation, testing, and deployment.
Work closely with developers and engineers to create end-to-end workflow automation.
Support distributed software and controls, development teams, and environments.
Optimize automated build systems.
Manage build communication channels and document build procedures.
Manage and maintain the version control system and all related development tools.
Ensure implementation and enforcement of defined software configuration management
practices.
Define and ensure naming convention, library, and versioning consistency.
Required Skills:
Five years or more of documented experience in a similar role with projects of similar size and
scope.
Strong experience with Agile and SCRUM Methodology, Azure DevOps (ADO), Source Control
Branching, Jira, and Jira integration with ADO
Bachelor s degree (or equivalent experience) in computer science or engineering or a technical
degree with 6 years of experience
Solid understanding and practical experience of software development life cycles, with
particular emphasis on build and release engineering functions
Strong scripting/automation expertise (e.g. MS PowerShell)
Strong understanding of operating systems, especially Windows and Linux preferred
Experience with programming languages such as .Net /C# and C preferred
Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio and Azure DevOps
Familiar with the principles of SDLC and methodologies like Agile/Scrum, CI, Good
Documentation Practices, Refactoring and Testing Techniques
Experience in the public sector, regulated industries, PII, Health, or Legal Data is highly desirable
Self-awareness, integrity, authenticity, and a growth/entrepreneurial mindset.

Regards,

Rakesh Bandari

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