Technical Architect - Automation
Dallas, TX

Job Description

Position Title

Technical Architect - Automation

Location

Dallas, TX

Overview

The candidate needs to have experience designing, developing, and deploying business critical solutions in both on premise and cloud-based environments. This person will help design and implement multiple delivery pipelines for existing and emerging products. Additional requirements include building and optimizing the CI/CD pipeline to release code as quickly and safely as possible, researching emerging technologies, and a passion for automation.

Responsibilities

* Work with senior leadership to develop the DevOps strategy and roadmap
* Develop and document future state
* Help build a collaborative culture through DevOps practices
* Be a leader and expert on DevOps practices and components
* Design, implement, and support deep and detailed monitoring across the DevOps pipeline
* Design and build automated deployments that simplify development, increase predictability, ensure quality through automated testing, and provide safe fallback
* Research and evaluate emerging technologies and trends to ensure we are using the best techniques and tools to maximize software delivery velocity

Required Skills

* Undergraduate degree preferably in Computer Science or similar technical degree
* 5+ years of experience in technical leadership and architecture roles
* 3+ years of experience in DevOps roles implementing CI/CD concepts
* Broad automation experience in build, test, configuration, and deployment in complex environments from development to production
* Experience designing, deploying, and managing applications on Azure Cloud Platform is required
* Strong systems administration background (Linux, Windows, virtualized, and cloud)
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* SCM experience (Git) and knowledge of branch strategies
* Strong scripting experience in multiple languages - (PowerShell, Python, bash, etc.)
* Experience with automated testing
* Experience with monitoring tools
* CI Experience in multiple tools (Jenkins, GitLab)
* Experience with automated configuration management (Chef, Puppet, DSC, etc.)
* Experience with Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, Salt, etc.)
* Automated build experience with multiple tools (MS Build, Ant, etc.)
* Experience with Package Management tools (Artifactory, VCPkg, NuGet, NPM, PyPi)
* Experience with one or more software development languages including C++, JavaScript, C#, Python, or Java
* Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Swarm
* Experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
* History of owning and driving software releases into production
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