Deployment Engineer

Artech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.

12 months with possible extension

Job Description:

• The Deployment Engineer is accountable for the successful execution of deployment plans and the overall deployment environment.
• They participate in the development, implementation, and oversight processes associated with software deployments utilizing Devops best practices, or the like, to ensure that the technology deployed by the technology team maintains high quality and high availability in a repeatable, auditable, and sustainable manner.
• They also assist / adopt change control processes across the organization.

• The successful candidate will have hands-on experience in a multitude of domains; including agile development, software engineering, software architecture, enterprise infrastructure engineering, and software quality assurance.
• They will also have relevant experience in domain topics such as security, PCI and other regulatory compliance, statuary compliance, problem refinement and resolution, process automation.
• 2 or more years working knowledge of server-based, distributed application systems.
• 2 or more years working knowledge of software engineering practices and principles including SDLC & service delivery best practices 1 or more years’ experience with Jenkins (or equivalent), JIRA, Confluence, Git Hub, and Puppet
• 1 or more years’ experience Windows server administration, Linux server administration, VMware, and knowledge of .net/Java development
• 1 or more years’ experience with MS SQL (or equivalent) and enterprise networking environments
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent documented experience is required

• Assist the engineering team leaders with creating successful deployment and rollback plans.
• Create and maintain automated and manual build processes with adequate transparency, reporting, controls, and rollback considerations.
• Obtain the appropriate approvals prior to promotion of builds throughout the development lifecycle.
• Successfully execute builds and deployment plans, validating the success and failure.
• Maintain and improve the deployment environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Production, Demo, training, etc), including, but not limited to: scripts, servers, applications, configurations, access permissions, etc.
• Assist in the development or configuration of tools that enhance the deployment and management of software.
• Enforce the security and change management requirements of the software deployment process.
• Integrate automated and manual controls and workflows to assist in the adherence to security and Compliance throughout the deployment process.
• Provide on-call and backup support to other team members.
• Collaborates with technology team leaders and project management office leader to ensure effectiveness Communication pertaining to project and change requests.
• Maintains a professional, optimistic, and energetic presence.
• Communicates clearly and upholds an environment for clear communication, cooperation, collaboration.

• Jenkins (or equivalent), JIRA, Confluence, Git Hub, and Puppet
• experience with MS SQL (or equivalent) and enterprise networking environments