DevOps Engineer (Business Systems)

DevOps Engineer (Business Systems)
DevOps Engineers work closely with clients and IT team members to understand the departmental stakeholder requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. They are responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment, and configuration activities. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to, working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, architecting, implementing/updating solution, build and executing test plans, performing quality reviews, managing operations, and triaging ad fixing operational issues.

DevOps Engineers require the ability to interact, develop, engineer and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with clients, vendors, partners, and all levels of our staff.

Essential Functions:

• Develop custom integration solutions including major enhancements, interfaces, functions, and features.
• Build automated deployments using configuration management technology.
• Work with Release Management to ensure modules are production-ready.
• Collaborate with project managers to prioritize development of capabilities.
• Contribute to strategic planning meetings and provides guidance and expertise on system options, risk, cost vs benefits, and impacts on departmental processes and goals
• Lead development and communicate business requirements and functional specifications for the design and implementation of client solutions.
• Work closely with architects to assure all systems are in line with IT's long-term strategy.
• Develop and/or implement reusable components.
• Assist in defining DevOps and quality guidelines and standards.
• Evaluate existing applications and platforms and provide recommendations for improving performance by conducting gap analysis, identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications.
  
  Qualifications & Technical Skills:
• Typically requires 7 or more years of analysis and programming experience
• Experience working in applications, systems or IT operations.
• In-depth knowledge of a broad range of hardware and software products.
• Experience leading an agile team environment.
• Ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements and develop alternate solutions.
• Experience designing, developing, testing and deploying applications/systems using proven or emerging
• Experience with development in two or more of C/C++, Java, Python, PHP or Ruby.
• Experience with front-end web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience designing, developing and supporting RESTful web API's.
• Experience supporting and making use of SOAP based API's.
• Working understanding of HTTP, HTTPS and SSL protocols.
• Experience with distributed version control and social coding platforms, i.e. GitHub.
• Experience supporting an SAP ERP environment including custom ABAP development and third-party and custom integrations with SAP solutions.
• Experience developing systems using Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL relation database backends, including use of stored procedures; exposure to development making use of NoSQL database backends a plus.
• Experience integrating both on-premises and software-as-a-service (SaaS) commercial solutions with enterprise identity and directory services, i.e. Active Directory, SAML.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills as well as communication skills.