DevOps Chef Developer

A Global IT consulting firm with several large customer engagements across Europe and US. It provides strategic business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients leverage technology and create impactful and measurable business value for every IT investment.

About Us: Avance Consulting Services is a global talent acquisition and executive search company. We work exclusively with some of the most reputed and admired clients across various sectors and geographies.

Position:
Dev Ops Chef Developer

Location:

Edison, NJ

Duration:
Full Time Position / Contract

Responsibilities include:

• Deploying applications globally, coordinating in controlled environments using Chef
• Configuring SVN distributed platform for multiple applications and automating builds using Jenkins or other tools.
• Defining a process for regulated SVN code control and builds.
• Creating branches to support parallel development
• Responsible for Code control and resolving merge conflicts
• Developing all necessary Unix/build scripts required for deployment automation etc.
• Engaging and scheduling functional resources in support of deployment, implementation and verification.
• Acquiring final approvals from QA and the LOB for application deployments
• Responsible for SIT, UAT, Prod & COB environments
• Coordinating overall deployments, creating deployment documents, release plans and run books
• Troubleshooting application/middleware applications

Mandatory

Qualifications:

• 7-8 years of related experience in one or more of the following areas
• Release engineer role
• Knowledge of SVN/subversion or other SCM tools
• Unix/shell/Perl/Python scripting
• Middle ware support [Web Sphere (preferably), web logic etc].
• Application build tools like ANT/Maven/Jenkins
• Knowledge of file transfer mechanism (Connect Direct, SCP, SFTP, etc..)
• Strong and proven ability to analyze and troubleshoot databases
• Good knowledge on issue/problem reporting or managing systems like JIRA etc.
• Advanced troubleshooting and deductive reasoning skills
• Ability to converse in both technical and non-technical terms
• Ability to show experience managing multiple tasks simultaneously and successfully
• Experience working with geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to develop strong client relationships

Additional Qualifications:

• Financial industry knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with an Enterprise Batch Scheduling tool (Autosys)
• Good understanding of Site Minder/SSO/BIGIP/DNS/3
  
  DNS is a plus
• Knowledge of Actimize applications is a plus

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.