*Specific Experience with AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) is required here. Need administration and support experience of AAP along with other DevOps responsibilities*

*The role starts out 5 days a week on site in Plano, TX for the first 90 days and then scales to up to 75 days per year remote* - Hybrid model

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience
• DevOps tools, such as Github, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Terraform, AppDynamics, Splunk or equivalent
• Administer and use Ansible Tower and AAP(Ansible Automation Platform) for infrastructure and application deployment and configuration automation
• Any of the scripting languages like Shell Scripting, Groovy, Python, PowerShell, HCL or equivalent.
• Use DevOps and create automation within private data center/cloud and public cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google or Amazon AWS cloud services or equivalent
• Administration of the Tower or AAP and utilization for infrastructure deployment and configuration automation
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Atlassian JIRA, Jira Align, Confluence and Mural or other equivalent agile planning tools
• Dockerfile and image creation, running containers on Kubernetes or using Docker run time environment.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with relational database management skills like MSSQL, MySQL, SQL, Postgres or MongoDB preferred or equivalent
• Technology design expertise which includes Containerization, Performance, Security, Availability, and Operations, Monitoring, and Support
• Ability to
• Train IT product delivery teams on the proper use of DevOps tools and capabilities and experience with Enterprise applications development
• Motivate and inspire peers to continuously improve processes and results
• Plan work of self and others and resolve technical and other problems
• Bachelor's degree in MIS, computer science, math, or other science field required, advanced degree in a related field

Day to Day:

The DevOps and Tools Engineer ensures the tools related to Agile development processes operate effectively for our application development teams. As a key member of the DevOps team you will support the entire Technology organization with the tools and platforms needed to promote Agile planning and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). You will report to the DevOps and Tools Team Leader, on the Application Engineering team.

The Day-to-Day:

• Work with DevOps and Tools and Application Development Team Lead to define application and integration development processes, tools, execution strategies, roadmaps to connect current designs to long term architecture, and monitoring to lead adherence to processes
• Configure and support cloud based Atlassian tools, to drive application development efficiencies and improve operational stability of the tools
• Develop tooling and processes to increase automation of development and adherence to security and audit systems and controls
• Integrate and configure additional tools/frameworks, to support and ensure Agile at scale
• Foster the use of DevOps tools and capabilities across Technology groups
• Implement strategies for improving or further leveraging DevOps processes and tools
• Monitor system availability and performance within agreed upon timelines
• Resolve issues, alerts, and incidents based on predefined service level agreements regarding system availability, performance, and service levels
• Oversee communication and coordination with other departments on lapse in services, performing root cause analysis
• Provide international and 24/7 support by on-call duties and working a flexible off-hours schedule for planned and unplanned maintenance