Title Senior Technical Deployment Manager; DevSecOps

Job title:

Senior Technical Deployment Manager (Dev Sec Ops )

Location:

Austin, TX

Duration: 12 months

Client:
Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Environment Management Team - Deployment Manager

HHSC Social Services Applications division is seeking a Senior Technical Deployment Manager (DM) to:

• Oversee the deployment and validation of SSA application releases and system enhancements to production.
• Oversee the troubleshooting of environment issues encountered during development in dev/test environments.
• Plan and coordinate with multiple internal I/T organizations, trading partners, vendors and consultants on an ongoing basis.
• Work closely with the business and I/T management for environment demand planning and driving I/T and operation resources for timely delivery of application environments – including new environment standups and frequent refactoring and reconfiguration of existing environments through manual and automated processes (Code, DB, Configuration, Security and Platform updates).
• Lead projects and IT sprints for improving environment delivery process through automation and standardization.
• Utilize Agile development or provide direction that meets SSA goals and objectives by participating in backlog grooming & user story development and work together with other teams in support of application enhancements planned to support new programs & business requests and to enhance quality, scalability & stability of the applications.
• Lead and triage troubleshooting sessions involving subject matter experts from different I/T areas for the purpose of restoring functionality and isolating and root causing issues.
• Hands on experience with monitoring and APM tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace is highly preferred.
• Environment triage support responsibility includes both workday and night/weekend on‑call support for all development, test, training and production environments.
• This service helps maintain high availability for developers, testers, trainers and production end users.

• Oversee the planning and coordination of environment setup while focusing on timely delivery of environments; manage risks and issues. (25%)
• Coordinate software deployments with application development teams, Dev Ops engineers, testers, TIERS Ops & Security and our business stakeholders to plan and coordinate environment setup and configuration. (20%)
• Leading and triaging troubleshooting process for systems involving hundreds of I/T services and components undergoing complex changes; exercising technical judgement as well as leadership skills in coordinating with technical subject matter experts in code, configuration, middleware, database, network and other I/T areas. Completing root cause analysis documentation; training juniors and strategizing improvement to existing process. (10%)
• Oversee the troubleshooting of environment issues encountered during development in the dev/test environments. Coordinate with the Middleware, EM, database, network and development teams to identify root cause of the issue(s) reported and provide fix. Training juniors, members of the team and strategizing improvement to existing process. (10%)
• Maintain the IT Dev Ops roadmap in accordance with SSA goals and objectives. Attend the IT Governance meeting on a regular basis, develop update and maintain the roadmap to reflect changes. Seek senior management approval. (5%)
• Provide Scrum Master Support for Dev Sec Ops  teams utilizing Agile development practices provide direction that meets SSA goals and objectives by participating in backlog grooming & user story development. Ensure user story development follow Social Services Applications Agile guidelines set priority participate in retrospective ceremonies and provide feedback. (5%)
• Oversees and manages the analysis resolution and removal of impediments during sprint for promoting and ensuring an atmosphere of self-directing and self-organizing within the Agile teams. (5%)
• Oversee staff and assign work. Responsible for team harmony resolve conflict and mentor staff. Responsible for team productivity - provides input into team development. (5%)
• Produce critical and complex reports to…