Site Reliability Engineer​/Release Management & Automation Specialist

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We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and self-driven technical resource to serve as a Site Reliability Engineer / Release Management & Automation Specialist. This role provides critical support for a strategic enterprise release orchestration platform and delivery operations system. You will be responsible for sustaining current enterprise release orchestration operations while supporting our transition to a future enterprise release management solution.

This unique opportunity combines immediate platform sustainment with strategic transformation initiatives, offering a chance to work with modern technologies in a highly rewarding environment.

• Sustain current enterprise release orchestration operations, integrations, automation, governance, and support activities while preserving critical platform knowledge
• Design, develop and support technical solutions that automate agent deployments and release orchestration processes
• Provide strategic technical support for vendor evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and the transition to a future enterprise release management platform
• Participate in pipeline planning, design, develop and support release and orchestration processes
• Provide input to automation policy, standards and processes
• Promote re-use and adoption of solutions across teams through demos and coaching
• Ensure all automations are compliant with SLF security directives and policies
• Create automation playbooks and companion documentation as references to help the team understand the logic and contents of automated tasks
• Identify opportunities for automation and guide on effective ways to implement
• Educate others on the use of automation tools and best practices
• Always operate in strict compliance of security and change management directives
• Balance platform reliability, operational support, stakeholder engagement, and incident resolution with an SRE mindset

• 3-5 years' experience in automation development (Ansible specifically)
• Kubernetes/Open Shift administration (ideally CKA/CKS certified)
• Linux/Unix system administration
• Python, JavaScript and Ansible automation
• Hands-on experience using Broadcom Continuous Delivery Director (CDD) tool or any other types of enterprise release orchestration and management tool such as Harness.io etc.
• Hands-on coding experience in Java, Apache Tomcat, JAX-RS, Maven, and Gradle
• Hands-on experience working in containers/Kubernetes
• Experience and understanding of monitoring and log ingestion tools (Splunk monitoring and query development preferred)
• Networking, firewalls, proxies, and connectivity troubleshooting
• System architecture, REST API integration and integration design
• Passion and thought leadership for innovation and…