Description:

The Digital DevOps Engineer will join the Digital Engineering organization focused on delivering rapid, incremental capabilities to the Cloud that improve the member/user experience and drive value to Navy Federal.

The Digital DevOps Engineer will become a member of the Digital DevOps & Release team that provides horizontal support to Digital Engineering/Experience Development teams and ensures Digital applications are ready for seamless production transition and successful operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure or similar Cloud native offerings
• Hands on automation skills and significant experience in creating CI/CD pipelines leveraging cloud native architectures on Microsoft Azure Cloud and Infrastructure as Code for enterprise applications
• Experience supporting Hybrid Cloud architectures.
• Experience with Agile Delivery, SAFe, and DevOps frameworks
• Experience with Microservices deployment and release management
• Experience with Azure DevOps tools for plan, build, test, release and monitor
• Experience with Gitflow branching model.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or other container technologies.
• Experience with scripting using PowerShell and Bourne shell
• Hands on experience with implementing standards and best practices for the CI/CD framework
• Knowledge of security scanning and monitoring tools like Checkmarx, BlackDuck, SonaQube, Contrast, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics and Diagnostic
• Extensive experience with scripting and debugging on Linux and Windows environments
• Understanding of Test Automation tools and scripts to facilitate Test Driven Development
• Understanding of integrated package management with support for Maven, npm, NuGet, or ANT
• Experience with automated Change Management using modernized solutions like ServiceNow
• Expert analytical/quantitative, problem-solving, and deductive reasoning skills, with demonstrated experience performing advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis of complex technical issues
• Excellent organizational, planning and time management skills and ability to work independently and in a team environment to manage concurrent priorities and meet deadlines
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills and ability to present findings, conclusions, alternatives and information clearly and concisely
• Experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors with demonstrated ability to build effective relationships through rapport, trust, diplomacy and tact
• Desired - Prior experience working with Microsoft Dynamics, Tanzu Application Service (TAS)/Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Backbase platforms
• Desired – Prior experience working with API Integration platform using IBM DataPower, Azure API Management and Mulesoft Anypoint Platform
• Desired - Good understanding of core java and spring framework (Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Contract)
• Desired - Good understanding of Test-Driven Development
• Desired - Microsoft® Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Developer Associate
• Desired – Experience with the banking/financial services industry
• Desired - Knowledge of Navy Federal business processes and applications

The DevOps Engineer will drive towards automation and strategies that align with industry best practices; will collaborate with product owners/developers/cloud engineers to ensure Digital's CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) processes are running smoothly and that development teams can deploy their code to the target environments as efficiently as possible; will assist with operations and supporting the Digital applications/services in production.

Responsibilities

• Manage, build, configure, administer, operate and maintain all components that comprise the Azure DevOps environment
• Work with Experience Teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment
• Design, build, and implement pipelines and configurations
• Develop and maintain scripts to automate tool/service deployment to the Azure cloud environment through Azure DevOps Pipeline and Release.
• Enforce quality controls and gates to the build, test, and deploy process while establishing Definition of Ready and Definition of Done to ensure quality of delivery
• Ensure monitoring and alerting is implemented for products/services in accordance with current guidelines
• Participate in discussions/efforts with Information Security to augment the CI/CD framework with DevSecOps practices and standardized security tools and controls
• Participate in discussions with engineering teams on current processes and capabilities and how they can be improved
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of Digital Engineering