DevOps Architect

Role: DevOps Architect
Location: Charlotte
Immediate Interview 

Responsibilities
*  Administration of CI Tools (Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube) 
*  Build/Enhance new capabilities and features to expand CI/CD tools offerings 
*  Ensure availability of the CI products 
*  Continuous review and improve the DevOps CICD pipeline to ensure seamless end to end process from Build to Deploy across ALL SDLC and Prod environments 
*  Work with global teams across the organization to troubleshoot critical CI tools related issues 
*  Serve as subject matter expert for leading Best practices across DevOps, CICD, Rapid Release and related end to end automation 
*  Stay current with relevant emerging technologies, assess application to DevOps Support challenges or opportunities determining business benefit and impact. 
*  Train and coach global team members to ensure proper Level1, Level2 support for the CI CD Tools. 
Required Skills
*  10 or more years of working experience with Industry standard DevOps CI/CD Tools including: source code repository management, CI pipeline configuration, and/or binary repository management. 
*  10 or more years of Development experience using either of the development platform (Java, Python, .NET, JS) 
*  10 or more years of hands on experience in building, enhancing, and creating automation for a CI/CD pipeline 
*  8 or more years of experience with working with either Maven or Gradle 
*  8 or more years of experience performing complex troubleshooting and performance tuning of various issues within CI/CD tool chain using industry standard monitoring tools. 
*  8 or more years of container experience 
*  8 or more years of continuous testing practices and enablement through CI/CD pipeline
Hands on knowledge on following tools: 
*  Groovy (must) 
*  Gitlab (must) 
*  Jenkins or equivalent CI Tool (must) 
*  Artifactory (must) 
*  Docker (must) 
Preferred Skills
*  Well versed with SAFe/Agile 
*  Security, Audit, Compliance 
*  Cloud platform - AWS, Azure,GCP 
*  Experience working in financial services 
*  Experience with Kubernetes
*  Experience with OpenShift 
*  Experience in Java Application development, deployment, configuration, Unix and integration a plus