Application Programmer-Senior

Application Programmer-SeniorJob location: Irving, Texas Duration: 18 month Must Have Requirements:2 to 3 plus years’ hand on experience and expert level understanding of Chef across Unix and Wintel platforms. 1 to 2 plus years’ hand on experience and expert level understanding of Ansible across Unix and Wintel platforms 3 to 5 years as expert software design and application development knowledge in Python, Ruby or any Object Oriented language 3 to 5 years practical experience of Agile and in depth understanding of its principles, KANBAN. Platform automation hands on experience Preferred Skills:1 to 3 years’ experience with CI/CD based development. 1 to 3 years’ experience of Design, System Tuning & Performance Improvements on distributed systems. 5 plus years’ experience supporting or developing on Red Hat LINUX Must be able to structure, plan and execute strategic initiatives with the right project discipline Ability to work effectively with virtual and remote teams Excellent troubleshooting and problem management skills in a high pressure environment. Very strong written, spoken and presentation communication skills Commitment to quality, attention to detail, and continuous improvement. Focus on delivery and execution; able to focus on details while seeing big picture Experience and ease in interfacing with Senior Management and technical support teams Ability to organize and manage many varying priorities. Elastic Search or ELK:To ensure development excellence in the way we solution, provision, instrument, manage and continuously improve the IT development and operations of Client’s Technology Infrastructure services. To provide technical leadership around building a Chef based automation framework that facilitates efficiencies around infrastructure operations. To help build standards around CI/CD and dev ops processes and use them actively to deliver business relevant solutions and automations for the CTI teams. To have in depth understanding of Architecture and Design principles around Docker, containers, Object oriented programming and Agile Development and use the same to build frameworks with standards and guidelines. To be accountable for vetting the correctness of the build architecture solution of new projects To mentor technical resources for them to be able to adopt Chef based automation in their respective teams To drive continuous improvement and facilitate adoption of relevant infrastructure tools as per currently established standards. To understand the current environment and processes being followed in Operations Team. To help identify automation and improvement opportunities and quickly implement them with quality. To understand and promote adoption of standards to ensure consistency and efficiency across the organization To identify processes or procedures that are not congruent with organization or industry standards & suggest improvements To identify and carry out any ad hoc office or operations tasks with the goal of improving IT development and operations. Performance Measures:Timely development and completion automation initiatives (Cycle time) Quality of output, Conforms to best practices and processes. Is thoroughly tested and defect free. Identifying and developing Infrastructure Operation relevant automations Stability of the infrastructure & risk-minimization initiatives Identification of the architectural or design of relevant infrastructure automation frameworks and solutions. Promote highly scalable architecture standards Project timelines – for special projects undertaken Competencies: