KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the creation and maintenance of critical Application Environments – Primarily Windows platforms with some Linux work
• Support and maintain existing Deployment systems and CI environments (Puppet, Jenkins, SonarCube, Nexus, NuGet)
• Participate and provide support in Deployment Planning meetings as required (UAT, STAGE, PROD)
• Application Deployment On-Call for scheduled maintenance windows outside of business hours
• Provide Tier 3 Incident Support for Applications as required to assist internal Support Teams
• Collaborate with developers to properly automate software build, test and deploy
• Maintain SRE’s technical deployment documentation repository
• Manage assigned project activities to achieve stated project goals, objectives, and schedules.
• Manage Azure-based applications and services
• Maintain Infrastructure-As-Code (Terraform) for various projects

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent with minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in automation, application deployment, and/or systems administration or 4+ years relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, automated application deployment.
• Significant proven experience working in Windows environments (primarily Windows Server 2008 and 2016) and Linux environments (OEL 6, CentOS 7)
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure (and various resources: Web App, Function App, Azure SQL, etc.)
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Azure Resource Manager and AzureCLI
• Experience with TCP/IP concepts
• Experience with programming and scripting languages: Bash and Powershell
• Excellent written and verbal skills (Documentation is paramount)
• Comfortable and capable communicator and trainer
• Experience with Puppet
• Experience with Jenkins/Hudson
• Experience with version control tools such as Git
• Ability to identify and understand complex problems/issues and develop effective solutions.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and collaborate with teams both remote and local.

BONUS EXPERIENCE:

• Azure certification
• Docker, Mesos, and/or Kubernetes experience
• Confluence and Jira experience
• Service-Now Experience
• ITIL Certification and/or experience
• Experience with E-Commerce projects, specifically online payment engines and/or credit card transactions
• PCI Compliance
• Agile/Scrum Methodologies
• Experience with Cloud Technologies (Open stack, AWS, etc.)
• Experience with Bamboo, Travis CI, etc.
• Experience with automation/configuration management tools: Chef, Ansible, or Salt, 1+ year.
• Experience with additional programming ad scripting languages (Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, or others)
• RDBMS systems (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc.)