DevOps Lead

Job Description

As the DevOps Lead in our organization, you will be leading an agile team who is responsible for designing, developing. maintaining and automating a 24x7 global internal IBM application. You will use your IT and operations knowledge and experience in order to bridge the gap between IT operations and application development.

Your focus will be on transforming a Legacy Mainframe environment, PL1 coded, into more advanced and flexible technologies
You will provide expertise and coaching for the team in all matters related to environments setup and maintenance, deployment, building and release processes.

We expect the DevOps Lead will help the team to write deployment scripts, and maintain their environments. Besides this technical aspect of this role, we expect this person to act as a leader working with our technical teams across the domain.
This is an exciting full-time opportunity to grow your career with the world's largest IT company with over 100 years of history and reputation as IBM is.

About the application:

CHIS (Contract handling International Solution) is being one of the most complex and robust application through which is processed more then 5.0 Billion USD a year, supporting currently 74 countries globally and in 2017 we expect to board another set of countries. Over the last two decades CHIS has evolved from a tactical Europe contract management solution to the strategic WW application covering the Technology Support Services (TSS) proposal and contract management. The CHIS application suite supports a broad range of user groups and covers the complete lifecycle for TSS contract management from initial proposal creation until billing. From a technical perspective, CHIS Application Suite is a mix of technologies, the core applications is Legacy (CFL and PLI on z/OS, IMS), in addition we have a variety of user front end tools (mainly Java applications and a few Web applications).


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Primary Skills: Automation platform like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins or similar setup, admin and plugin development,
Secondary Skills:- SonarQube, Selenium, Linux / Unix and Shell scripting, Java, J2EE, JavaScripting, MySQL, Oracle & SQL, Urban Code Deploy tool


Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

Communication
• Very good Communication and interpersonal Skills
• Have capacity to learn and work independently / with team as the time demands

Customer Obsessed
• Understand business & focus on high quality
• Ensures all activities are reviewed from a customer’s viewpoint
• Ensures agreed service levels are achieved for self and team

Is Ambitious & Competitive
• Sets clear and challenging goals for self
• Removes barriers to making things happen
• Helps others to concentrate on priorities
• Ensures team makes effective use of available resources

Is Innovation Hungry
• Continually monitor the opportunity and/or necessity for changes and improvements, with a specific focus on cost efficiency and improved time-to-market
• Finds ways to be more effective
• Knows what we’re trying to achieve and change our approach when the old way isn’t working
• Facilitates the generation of ideas from own team
• Takes calculated risks rather than miss opportunities