Dev Ops Engineer - US

Essential Function / major duties and responsibilities of the job

Duties, Responsibilities, and Deliverables:

• Understand and assimilate the CLS SDLC requirements, processes and procedures

• Ensure that a viable, consistent and efficient DevOps strategy is implemented in the end-to-end development of applications and products that is consistent with, compliant of and conformant to the CLS SDLC

• Improve and integrate existing architecture with the industry-best automation tools and practices

• Collaborate with release manager(s), development leads, developers, QA, and Engineering teams in the continual improvement and enhancement of the DevOps process

• Analyze, design and implement solutions for CI/CD build, release and deployment automation

• Analyze, design and implement solutions for automated and CI/CD-integrated UT (Unit Testing) and CIT (Component Integration Testing) that can potentially be extended to the ST (System Testing) and SIT (System Integration Testing) phases

• Institute and implement automated solutions for SDLC governance and compliance monitoring and reporting

• Plan, implement and ensure that delivery milestones are met

• Provide automation solutions using design patterns, common techniques, and industry best practices that meet the typical challenges/requirements of a financial application including usability, performance, security, resiliency, and compatibility

• Proactively recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions

• Apply significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve CLS in-house practices and services

Experience / essential and desired for successful job performance

• 3 years of hands-on experience in (Linux) shell and non-shell (awk, sed, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.) scripting

• 3 years of hands-on DevOps design, development and implementation

• Hands-on experience in industry leading build tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Bamboo, GIT

• Hands-on experience with Atlassian Administration, JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence

• Knowledge of incident management tools such as ServiceNow

• Excellent understanding of automated quality assurance and test strategies

• Hands-on experience with SQL and with at least one DBMS such as IBM DB2 (preferred) or Oracle is a strong plus

• Hands-on knowledge of MS Office toolset including MS-Excel, MS-Word, PowerPoint,  and Visio

• Experience in Agile Software Development Practices (Scrum or other)

• Development experience with Node JS or other web-based development a plus

• Prior work with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud services a plus

Qualifications / certifications

• Bachelor Degree

• Minimum 3 year experience in Information Technology

Knowledge, skills and abilities / competencies required for successful job performance

Success factors / ‘How’. Personal characteristics contributing to an individual’s ability to excel in the position

• Have strong analytical, written and oral communication skills with a high self-motivation factor

• Possess excellent organization skills to manage multiple tasks in parallel

• Be a team player

• Have the ability to work on complex projects with globally distributed teams and manage tight delivery timelines

• Have the ability to smoothly handle high stress application development and support environments

• Strive continuously to improve stakeholder management for end-to-end application delivery and support