Duration: 6+ month (might need to roll perm, not sure, prefer EAD/GC)
As a suggestion – please do not focus on the tooling. Development experience (preferably .Net) is a must. Not interested in IT professionals who manage TFS as part of their workload.
This role requires a developer willing to shift right (from Dev to CI).
Again, I am not going to mention tooling because it throws people off but this is what an ideal candidate will look like.
- Must have a minimum of 5 years development experience in a .NET / Microsoft environment
- Experience with infrastructure automation tolls, preferably Chef and Octopus
- Experience with CICD tools such as Bamboo or Jenkins or VSTS Build
- Role requires working with various cross-functional engineering specialists, project managers and application development teams to define and implement upcoming release requirements
- Facilitate communication between various teams & steak holders in-order to increase development velocity and improve efficiency
- Serves as the technology expert on building technical requirements
- Work with Automation testing teams to improve UI and Performance
- Responsible for helping to define the design, implementation and support of infrastructure and operational components. Will create and build using Jenkins and VSTS.
The DevOps Build Master is key member of an agile development team. The qualified applicant is responsible for the implementation of an application’s delivery pipeline - from version control, build, and release.
Applicant must be adept to working in a highly fluid environment which includes: frequent changes to requirements, tactics, strategies and timelines. Candidate must also be a self-learner with abilities to quickly absorb new and emerging technologies. Effective communication skills are a must as this role requires frequent interactions with other departments i.e., Application Development, QA, PMO, Operations, offshore Dev/QA teams, vendors, and the business.
Experience with cloud programming models such as Reliable Actors and Reliable Services are a plus.
- Work closely with scrum masters to understand upcoming release requirements
- Manage and resolve forward/reverse integration issues with limited help (merge issues)
- Support multiple development teams working on a single development branch
- Create and maintain build definitions in VSTS Build and Jenkins
- Troubleshoot/resolve build and package issues
- Monitor/enforce code quality and test coverage standards
- Work with QA automation teams to orchestrate automated testing (UI and Performance)
- Administer VSTS version control system using Git and TFVC repositories
- Attend daily SCRUM standup meetings with development teams
- Design and develop new methods to improve AutoNation’s development environment
- 5-7 years of .NET development experience at the enterprise level using Agile best practices
- Bachelor’s degree in technology or equivalent job experience
- Strong understanding of ALM and release management processes
- Software version control systems in centralized and distributed designs
- Continuous integration systems that test and package deployable code
- Continuous deployment systems that deploy/promote code to different environments on demand
- Configuration management that automatically set environments to desired state
- Software and system monitoring/alerting that provide fast feedback loops
- Ability to design and implement process automation using scripting tools and languages such as C#, PowerShell, Javascript/node.js, Python, Ruby
- Strong understanding of coding standards such as MVC, client-side frameworks (Angular JS/React, jQuery), asynchronous programming, web sockets (SignalR), web APIs, SOA, Reliable Actors, Reliable Services, SQL, SSDT and mobile clients using Xamarin
- Strong understanding of test frameworks and tools such as: Jasmine, AVA, Mocha, JSlint, Karma, Grunt, Gulp, nUnit, xUnit, MSTest, Selenium
- Solid understanding of zero-downtime deployments and fast rollback strategies
- Server 2012 R2, Server 2016, RHEL
- IIS Web Server
- MS SQL Server 2014, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS
- VSTS, MS Visual Studio, MTM, Jira
- Sitecore, Sharepoint
- Jenkins CI, VSTS Build
- Octopus Deploy, VSTS Release, Chef
- SonarQube, Cobertura
- Windows Azure, AzureRM, Microservices
- Office 365
If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to gmahesh(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-880-4184.