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Basic Purpose
Reviews Lower (non-Production) environments and associated activities to ensure compliance with Enterprise standards and the ISD Environments Management Directive, preventing, or documenting and/or remediating any known gaps. Additionally, ensure adequate preparation for implementation of IT Service modifications in the Production environments, in a manner that protects and enhances operational availability. This includes learning Navy Federal Release controls, while operating as a Release Manager, which entails assisting Release Owners manage their lower environments' work and providing oversight review and approval of their activities, leveraging the candidate's industry experience and knowledge.
Specific Qualifications
Basic Purpose
Reviews Lower (non-Production) environments and associated activities to ensure compliance with Enterprise standards and the ISD Environments Management Directive, preventing, or documenting and/or remediating any known gaps. Additionally, ensure adequate preparation for implementation of IT Service modifications in the Production environments, in a manner that protects and enhances operational availability. This includes learning Navy Federal Release controls, while operating as a Release Manager, which entails assisting Release Owners manage their lower environments' work and providing oversight review and approval of their activities, leveraging the candidate's industry experience and knowledge.
Specific Qualifications
- Has 7 Years of experience working in IT Environments Management for large, complex and mission-critical applications
- Demonstrates effective English communications skills, both written and verbal
- Has significant understanding of software build and release processes, including associated risks and considerations
- Has 3 Years experience with automate testing, with hands-on experience developing test plans, case and associated scripts; DevOps experience is a plus
- Has significant experience working within a team, and independently, performing root cause analysis of incidents
- Works independently with minimal oversight (Mid-Level to Highly Experienced)
- Possesses a degree or formal training in Computer Science and/or Information Technology
- Holds certification in appropriate engineering disciplines
- Has working knowledge ServiceNow ITSM
- Demonstrates understanding of Lower / non-Production environments in an enterprise environment
- Strong understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Waterfall, Agile methodologies (Preferably SAFe) and DevOps
- Has significant experience with distributed systems architectures, possessing understanding of associated management tools
- Experience in the development of medium to highly complexed distributed business applications
- Strong understanding of Change & Release Management frameworks and processes
- Strong understanding of Risk management and associated frameworks, preferably ISACA COBIT 5 and/or similar frameworks
- Finance Industry
- ITIL concepts, especially Service Transition, with certification
- DevOps and/or Agile concepts, with certification
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Testing, and related automation
- Experience with ServiceNow as a power user and/or developer and/or administrator
- Cloud computing, with specific understanding of: Azure
- Security concepts: access control and authorization
- Distributed technology (AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows): WebSphere, .Net, Lotus Notes, Java, SOA
- DBMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Progress and Teradata
- Testing (Unit, Functional, Performance and Stress/Load), including Automation / Scripting
- Automation/scripting: Python, Ansible, WSS, BAW, Pega, JavaScript, JAVA, etc.
- Collecting and delivering detailed information, with analysis/interpretation, to personnel of varying levels, from engineer through management
- Application development
- IBM Mainframe (z Series) configuration items including data, applications and infrastructure: COBOL, CICS, Assembler, REXX, JCL, FileAid, AbendAid, Strobe and SysView;
- Reporting: Crystal Reports and Cognos
- WebSphere Engineering and Administration responsibilities
- Administering middleware application servers (WebSphere, MQ, IBM BPM, JBoss, .Net, etc).
- The engineer will assist in the management of multiple complex environments to ensure continuous systems availability, in support of IT services/products including build, maintenance and testing - throughout the release lifecycle
- Participate in projects as an Environments/Release Management resource teaching, supporting, and reviewing designs, plans and execution of associated activities
- Lead and participate in Team initiatives
- Lead initiatives to help Release teams automate testing – coaching new scripters in best practices, while performing general testing knowledge transfer/management
- Coach and mentor junior Release Team Members
