Sr DevOps Automation Engineer McLean VA on TWTh

This position may be offered to a candidate authorized to work in the US for his/her/their stated employer without any restrictions which would prevent the candidate from working on the proposed assignment for the duration of the assignment period.

Must Haves:

• Automated testing experience is critical to this role; must understand the benefits of test automation and why youre doing it
• Ideal candidate will know how technology* is applied to DevOps role and be comfortable in an IDE to support developers while also doing the required testing
• *Technology: Java Python NodeJS JUnit Cucumber Selenium FitNesse Jmeter

Position Overview:

The DevOps Automation Engineer in Modern Delivery Tool Chain (MDTC) is responsible for improving production operations automation and availability for key Modern Delivery solutions.

Our Impact:

• Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production
• Work closely with Architecture Customers Operations and Product to specify and detail solutions and practices
• Build a DevOps culture to provide high quality continuous operations and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics customer requirements and financial objectives

Your Impact:

• Build and lead the sustainability/DevOps engineering function that is responsible for platform availability scale and performance.
• Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement
• Implement comprehensive service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance including synthetic real user system application performance dashboards etc.
• Define measure and meet key service level objectives including availability performance incidents and chronic problems
• Ensure robust capacity planning models are defined for key platforms and regularly measure customer site performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity
• Own endtoend availability and performance of critical platform services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all nonexceptional service conditions
• Encourage and establish teams that work together without silos
• Lead teams with a focus on productivity efficiency respect and cultural sensitivity