Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Ascensus, you will be working collaboratively with our high-energy Agile software engineering teams to streamline deployment and operation of our systems. This position is responsible for the supporting & building Scalability, Performance & Reliability of the application infrastructure at an Enterprise level. This position ensures a focus on automation, efficiency, and continuous delivery initiatives.

Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The important ways to spend time in this job are:

• Continuously collaborating with team(s) to evaluate Monitoring and Performance of the environment
• Identify opportunity to automate scripts for software builds and deployments and help streamline the pipeline
• Participate in technology and design discussions
• Influence & research on new tools/ technology solutions/processes to improve SDLC pipeline
• The scope of work includes build, machine configuration, test infrastructure and virtual machine deployment.
• Level-3 support for Production Environment
• Commitment for protecting and securing all client data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access to and/or improper transmission of information that could result in harm to a client.
• The I-Client philosophy and the Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always? should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organizational culture.

The 2-3 most important duties of this job are:

• Work directly with teams across projects, supporting them by problem-solving and innovating/ building support solution on infrastructure needs
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in all environments especially Production

Skills/ Experience required to do this job well

• Minimum of 5+ years of Hands-on experience working in an Enterprise organization as a DevOps/Build/Deployment and Engineering & Operations skills
• Experience with Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and related tools
• Hands-on experience in production environments, both deploying and troubleshooting applications in Windows /Linux environment.
• Strong experience automating with scripting languages such as Power Shell, Python and any deployment scripting languages
• Experience with CI/CD deployment supporting Microsoft technologies (IIS, Team Foundation Server (TFS, VSTS), GIT/ ProGit, Octopus Deploy and TeamCity is preferred)
• Proficient in Configuration Management (Puppet, Ansible, Chef or Similar)
• Hands-on experience with Containerization, Docker & Kubernetes is required.
• Good understanding of Micro-services architecture, design patterns, and standard methodologies with an eye towards scale, automation, resiliency, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Good understanding of networking, load balancing, caching, security, config and certificate management.
• Experience in larger Enterprise suites such as BPM, CRM, Portals, Content Management preferred
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline or equivalent work experience.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with .Net framework
• Experience with ASP.Net and MVC and/or Java and Struts
• Experience with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• Experience with JavaScript, jQuery, and JS frameworks
• Experience with cloud computing using Azure or AWS
• Experience with infrastructure as code software like Terraform
• Understanding of SOA and distributed computing
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) practices with an automated testing framework

Additional Skills

• Must possess ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Must be a team player who understands the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and open communication, including a willingness to occasionally work in a pair-programming environment
• Must possess strong analytical and technical documentation skills
• Must possess ability to effectively present information and respond to questions
• Experience with distributed systems or a large enterprise background is preferred
• Must have an excellent understanding and hands-on experience with design and development best practices
• Detail orientation and strong attention to detail
• Understanding of SDLC automation concepts such as continuous integration