Puppet Resource / Application Support
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Description
- Assisting in automation and orchestration of application deployments for multiple development and application support teams
- Develop reusable puppet code for installation and configuration of common application components
- Support and maintain the department’s Puppet Enterprise environment
- Provide training and on boarding of developers and application support teams into the cloud environment
- Mentor teams in the development and use of Puppet modules for application automation
- Implementation of configuration changes, as well as backing out an unsuccessful change.
- Document and maintain knowledge of supported applications and platforms
- 1+ years of working experience with Puppet for configuration management and automation
- 3+ years of system administration experience with either RedHat Linux or Windows Server operating systems
- Proficiency with use of source code management and software development workflow using Git
- Have a thorough understanding of SDLC best practices including CI/CD
- Demonstrated leadership capability; able to help guide, motivate and collaborate across IT operations, development and architecture teams
- Scripting or programming proficiency (Ruby, bash, PowerShell, etc.)
- Experience working in an environment with automated deployments and automated testing
- Experience in advanced application configuration, troubleshooting and performance tuning
- Experience extending Puppet with Ruby (Custom types and providers, custom functions, etc)
- Familiarity with application architecture and deployments in cloud environments (Microservices, service discovery, A/B code deployments, etc)
- Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare, OpenStack, AWS
- Experience with Java containers (Weblogic, Tomcat, Jboss, etc)
- Experience with webservers (Apache, IIS, nginx, hapxory, etc)
- Experience with .NET application stack
- RedHat or Microsoft certification
- BS degree and/or the equivalent in training and experience preferred
- Experience with using and maintaining Atlassian suite of products (Stash, Jira, Hipchat, etc)
- Load balancing concepts, features and applicability to application/service deployments
- 5+ years of relevant work experience developing services, automation tools/scripts
- Knowledge of SQL and NOSQL databases
- Experience with software packaging (e.g. RPM, MSI, etc.) and software distribution
- Take ownership of assigned tasks and drive to completion; provide status and follow-up as needed
- Excellent personal and communication skills.
- Highly tuned problem solving and analytical skills
- Experience porting puppet code to future parser