Application Programmer-Senior

Job Title: Application Programmer-Senior
Job location : Irving, Texas
Duration:18 month

Job Description:

Must Have Requirements:

• 2 to 3 plus years' hand on experience and expert level understanding of Chef across Unix and Wintel platforms.
• 1 to 2 plus years' hand on experience and expert level understanding of Ansible across Unix and Wintel platforms
• 3 to 5 years as expert software design and application development knowledge in Python, Ruby or any Object Oriented language
• 3 to 5 years practical experience of Agile and in depth understanding of its principles, KANBAN.
• Platform automation hands on experience

Preferred Skills:

• 1 to 3 years' experience with CI/CD based development.
• 1 to 3 years' experience of Design, System Tuning & Performance Improvements on distributed systems.
• 5 plus years' experience supporting or developing on Red Hat LINUX
• Must be able to structure, plan and execute strategic initiatives with the right project discipline
• Ability to work effectively with virtual and remote teams
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem management skills in a high pressure environment. .
• Very strong written, spoken and presentation communication skills
• Commitment to quality, attention to detail, and continuous improvement.
• Focus on delivery and execution; able to focus on details while seeing big picture
• Experience and ease in interfacing with Senior Management and technical support teams
• Ability to organize and manage many varying priorities.

Elastic Search or ELK:

• To ensure development excellence in the way we solution, provision, instrument, manage and continuously improve the IT development and operations of Client's Technology Infrastructure services.
• To provide technical leadership around building a Chef based automation framework that facilitates efficiencies around infrastructure operations.
• To help build standards around CI/CD and dev ops processes and use them actively to deliver business relevant solutions and automations for the CTI teams.
• To have in depth understanding of Architecture and Design principles around Docker, containers, Object oriented programming and Agile Development and use the same to build frameworks with standards and guidelines.
• To be accountable for vetting the correctness of the build architecture solution of new projects
• To mentor technical resources for them to be able to adopt Chef based automation in their respective teams
• To drive continuous improvement and facilitate adoption of relevant infrastructure tools as per currently established standards.
• To understand the current environment and processes being followed in Operations Team.
• To help identify automation and improvement opportunities and quickly implement them with quality.
• To understand and promote adoption of standards to ensure consistency and efficiency across the organization
• To identify processes or procedures that are not congruent with organization or industry standards & suggest improvements
• To identify and carry out any ad hoc office or operations tasks with the goal of improving IT development and operations.
• Performance Measures:
• Timely development and completion automation initiatives ( Cycle time )
• Quality of output, Conforms to best practices and processes. Is thoroughly tested and defter free.
• Identifying and developing Infrastructure Operation relevant automations
• Stability of the infrastructure & risk-minimization initiatives
• Identification of the architectural or design of relevant infrastructure automation frameworks and solutions.
• Promote highly scalable architecture standards
• Project timelines - for special projects undertaken

Competencies:

Functional:

• Project Management: Foundation
• Technical Knowledge: Expert
• Processes or Procedures: Advanced
• Customer and Industry Knowledge: Foundation
• Commercial And Financial Acumen: Foundation
• Risk Management: Proficient
• Leadership and Professional
• Team (People) Leadership: Foundation
• Personal Agility or Continuous improvement: Proficient
• Execution Excellence: Advanced
• Managing Innovation: Proficient
• Change Management: Proficient
• Strategic Orientation: Proficient
• Stakeholder Management: Proficient
• Client Centricity: Proficient
• Effective Communication: Proficient
• Problem Solving and Decision Making: Advanced
• Education or Certifications:
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or other equivalent qualifications