DevOps Engineer

Bank of America • Jacksonville, FL

6d • Onsite

About The Position

As a member of the DevOps Engineering team, the person will be responsible for DevOps Configuration Engineering, Deployments in the Lower Level testing and Production environments, Environments Management, and keeping the environment pristine and as production-like as possible. Day-to-day activities include, but are not limited to the following: Deployment of code and/or retrofit of production code, Configure CD tools for Application Deployments and Onboarding Applications into CI/CD, Defect triage of deployment issues in the controlled environments, Communicating to our clients and/or consulting on design of infrastructure, Working side by side with testers and developers to ensure all are working cohesively, Technical documentation, and Partnership and communications with internal customers and partner teams. This job is responsible for configuring and delivering software delivery automation. Key responsibilities include ensuring software deployments are configured to meet standards for access, ownership, and authentication and that software promotion release pipelines are well designed and follow Continuous Delivery (CD) best practices. Job expectations include the ability to integrate development, testing practices, software delivery tools, and runtime application standards at the bank.

Requirements

• Experience in Application Lifecycle Management Automation tools and integration using one or more of the following tools: Ansible tower by Red Hat, Jenkins or Hudson, XL Release
• Experience in working with one or more version control tools like BitBucket/Git, RTC (IBM Rational Team Concert), Subversion, Perforce or TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Working knowledge/expertise with JIRA, NEXUS and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
• 5 years of experience in Windows Build, Code Deployment and Linux Application troubleshooting functions
• Effective Communication – Clear, Concise and the ability to articulate ideas
• Should be able to lead and actively participate in conference calls with technical and business users
• Exposure and familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies (Agile/Waterfall)
• Candidate must be self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, able to work with little supervision and a responsible team-player
• Willing and able to work in a 24 X 7 environment including after hours and weekend support to support multiple time zones
• Able to work on Databases: Query and updates
• Computer networking skills and working knowledge: Load balancers, firewall, etc.
• Degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Communication, Information Technology.
• Understanding/experience with web application communication protocols - SOAP, HTTP, XML etc
• Basic knowledge on MQ’s
• Working knowledge of application setup, support, and configuration
• Expert knowledge of LINUX operating systems with hands on experience in troubleshooting Linux application issues
• Hands on working Windows IIS administration

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to financial, banking business processes, technologies, system and process architecture
• Continuous Integration & Deployment knowledge and hands on skill involving any or all of Jenkins, Maven/Ant, JFrog Artifactory, TFS/BitBucket, Ansible Tower, XL Release, or similar CI/CD technologies
• Exposure to Openshift or Kubernetes Containers
• Environment Management skills on WINDOWS
• Secure software delivery
• Release management
• Networking skills
• Java Technologies & Containers
• Suitable Masters/Bachelor’s academic degree

Responsibilities

• Configures and maintains the set of tools and services that provide Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) services and validates access control mechanisms for the Software and Infrastructure Engineering team throughout the software development lifecycle
• Reviews the configuration of applications servers to confirm that CI/CD service platform onboarding pre-requisites are available and configured properly
• Monitors and responds to “how-to" information requests about CI/CD Software service use and to alerts based on the CI/CD services KPIs
• Responds to risk or audit identified issues with access control processed designed for compliance with firm separation of duties practices and software release management standards, and policies
• Works with Infrastructure and Solutions Engineers to understand changes in CI/CD service platform components and behaviors, creating or contributing to the CI/CD Platform services documentation
• Executes change tickets for CI/CD service onboarding and decommissioning using approved change management processes as scheduled by Software or Infrastructure Engineers
• Works with Site Reliability Engineers to understand the planned changes in monitoring and alerting capabilities
• DevOps Configuration Engineering
• Deployments in the Lower Level testing and Production environments
• Environments Management
• Keeping the environment pristine and as production like as possible
• Deployment of code and/or retrofit of production code
• Configure CD tools for Application Deployments and Onboarding Applications into CI/CD
• Defect triage of deployment issues in the controlled environments
• Communicating to our clients and/or consulting on design of infrastructure
• Working side by side with testers and developers to ensure all are working cohesively
• Technical documentation
• Partnership and communications with internal customers and partner teams

Benefits

• Access to paid time off
• Resources and support to our employees
• Discretionary incentive eligible
• Annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree