IOS XR PD Development Engineer

Essential Responsibilities
Technical Leadership of the Software Factory:
1. Develop the Build, Test, and Deployment automation of the Software Application products utilizing Jenkins and multi-branch Jenkinsfiles utilizing pipeline libraries, Artifactory, Perforce, GitLab, Coverity, Valgrind, GCov, Sonar, etc.
2. Set the strategy for Dockerizing/Containerizing of Software Application products.
3. Drive continuous improvements in the Software Factory for maximizing product quality and productivity of the development team and minimizing total cost of ownership of the Software Factory infrastructure.
4. Drive ongoing investigation and evaluation of new technologies to support continuous improvements in the Software Factory.
5. Implement and manage CMake build configuration and bash/PowerShell build scripts.
6. Provide support for configuring and using software quality analysis tools like Coverity, Valgrind, GCov, Sonar, etc.
7. Develop automation for monitoring key software metrics through the use of the Digital Health Dashboard.
8. Share with the development team best practices and processes for software development and deployment.

Technical Leadership of Software Factory Infrastructure Management:
1. Deploy and maintain Software Factory infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation technologies such as Chef, Packer, Terraform, etc. in on-prem, Azure, and AWS environments.
2. Develop Dockerizing/Containerizing of build and test agents used in the Software Factory.
3. Deploy and manage rigorous vulnerability patching and OS update schedule for cross platform Software Factory infrastructure.
4. Develop the strategy for continuous monitoring of Software Factory infrastructure.
5. Lead the Computer System Validation efforts on tools used in the Software Factory.

Automation Test Strategy for Software Verification:
1. Develop the challenging verification strategy, including performance/load testing, with optimal coverage for Software Application products.
2. Lead evaluation, tradeoff analysis, proof of concept, and selection of various automation test tools available.
3. Selection of appropriate vendor and resources for automation support.
Qualifications/Requirements
1. Hands-on experience with Software DevOps tools for continuous build, test, and deployment.
2. Hands-on experience with infrastructure deployment automation in cloud environments.
3. Hands-on experience with container development and deployment.
4. Hands-on experience in implementing test automation for software applications.
5. Working knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure technologies (IaaS/PaaS/VM) for software development.
6. Demonstrated knowledge of software testing methodology / processes and software development life cycle.
7. Demonstrated knowledge in manual / automated testing methodologies.
8. Ability to work well with teams and across a global environment.

Desired Characteristics
1. Experience with Jenkins Multi-Branch Pipeline CI/CD and Pipeline Libraries.
2. Experience with Chef Infrastructure Management, Packer, Terraform, and other infrastructure automation tools.
3. Experience with Microsoft Azure technologies.
4. Experience with C++ source code algorithm, library, and application development, testing, and deployment.
5. Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework software develop process and roles