ArchitectureDesignDevelopment DevOps Engineer II

DevOps Engineer
Chicago il (onsite & Remote is fine but candidate needs to travel once in month (one week at least) No expenses given by client.
Rate: BR

First preference would be onsite candidates

Job Description:
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role you will:
Support and improve tools for continuous build automated testing and release management
Make technology choices at individual level and has ability to analyze impact
Understand the build process and identifies bottleneck areas for improvement
Demonstrate expertise in writing scripts to automate tasks. Implements Continuous Integration/Deployment build principles
Provide expertise in the quality engineering test planning and testing methodology for a software project
Help businesses develop an overall strategy for deploying code. Contribute to planning and strategy with his/her ideas. Draw off experience in order to influence others
Demonstrate experience with applying principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP CI Software and Product Security Scalability Documentation Practices refactoring and Testing Techniques.
Be able to document procedures for building deploying change management and support of processes
Education Qualification
Bachelors Degree in with minimum years of experience 4 years
Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise:
Able to assess code build it and run applications locally on his/her own (java python preferred)
Experience with creating and maintaining automated CD/CD/build tools such as Jenkins GitLab Artifactory Sonar
Experience with systems and user management (Windows Server Unix variants such as Rocky Linux) and management tools such as Ansible
Experience with documentation management and ticketing systems such as Rally Confluence Service-Now Box etc.
Experience with engagement and support of internal customers such as engineering groups program management groups other internal groups for the purposes of requirements gathering solution development and roll-out and adapting to internal technological changes/updates/improvements in processes
Demonstrates competency of the intricacies interactions and dynamics in Agile teams. Guides new teams to adopt Agile troubleshoots adoption efforts and guide continuous improvement. Drives elimination of inefficiencies in coding and solutions process. Actively embraces new methods and practices that increase efficiency and effectiveness.

Business Acumen:
Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision. Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition. Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g. Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices).
Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution. Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI). Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance. Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques including ROI SWOT and Gap analyses. Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.

Leadership:
Influences through others; builds direct and behind the scenes support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome. Uses experts or other third parties to influence.
Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.
Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.
Personal Attributes:
Able to effectively direct yourself and others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to add value to Client Organization. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.