Jr Full Stack Developer

Position Summary

The Jr. Full Stack Developer will perform the duties of Production Operations (ProdOps) Engineer, and understands the Application Maintenance and Production Support needs of the client. The Developer is hands-on and will be challenged to design and implement Continuous Improvement in the ProdOps environment. The candidate will be part of the Production Excellence team and need to have a solid understanding of Operations Management practices and procedures. This resource will participate in the rollout of DevOps technologies and processes. Developer will need to work as an independent resource, interacting directly with management and helping rollout updated processes and tools. Candidates should be highly motivated and excellent team players, able to work autonomously, demonstrate excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

Define and rollout updated Production Operations processes, technologies and service
Work closely with Development teams to capture and document Application Maintenance and support procedures
Work with DevOps lead to implement Production Operations best practices
Responsible for Infrastructure Operations and management of environments with emphasis on Puppet
Responsible for Application Development and multiple coding and scripting languages with focus on .Net and HTML
Participate in DevOps and ProdOps tool configuration, working with DevOps and ALM tools like Puppet, JIRA, Jenkins, and Release Automation
Understand the deployment requirements for all applications and production environments
Capture Application Monitoring requirements and enable Production and Proactive Monitoring solutions
Work with Release Manager on pushing code deployment to production
May provide build management and execution support
Serve as first point of contact or Tier-1 support for production calls
Address production issues from the Service Desk tool (i.e. JIRA, Kace) and encourage business users to report and document production issues
Triage production problem reports and refer to Development teams if necessary
Fix minor application issues and dynamic content problems logged by Customers and Business users
Document fixes and procedures related to Prod/Ops support
Add to the documentation as new incident procedures are discovered and implemented
Refer frequently occurring incidents to Developers for Problem resolution

Experience

Experience with implementing ITIL and CMMI methodologies a strong plus
Prior experience with Infrastructure Operations and management of environments
Experience with Continuous Integration and working with ALMs and Build and Release automated tools.
Experience automating production deployment and support process
Experience with design and implementation of Deployment automation
Experience with Infrastructure Operations and management of environments with emphasis on Puppet
Experience with managing production websites
Experience engineering solutions and developing best practices.

Required Skills

Knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures and processes
5+ years background in IT (preferably in ProdOps and DevOps).
Solid understanding of Application Release engineering and application lifecycle process management.
Advanced knowledge of application architectures (web, client-server, and mobile) and application monitoring techniques and approaches
Knowledge of Application Development and multiple coding and scripting languages with focus on .Net and HTML
Strong knowledge of Software Configuration Management (build/deployment) concepts
Knowledge of Operating Systems and Troubleshooting with focus on Windows OS
Knowledge of Virtualization Technologies with focus on VSphere, VMWare
Broad knowledge of ProdOps and DevOps tools including, JIRA, TFS, and Service Desk
Capable of enforcing processes and procedures
Ability to gather incident information and accurately represent it to the Development team.
Ability to document issues and remedies/solutions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders
Strong desire to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes and capable of enforcing processes and procedures
Internally motivated, enterprising, able to work effectively both independently and in a team environment

Tools Knowledge

Puppet
Jenkins
JIRA
TFS
Release Automation
VMWare
VSphere
AWS
Net
HTML
CSS
SQL
Bootstrap
JAVA
PHP
JavaScript
React framework
AngularJS framework
JQuery
Testing frameworks
Git

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Keywords

ProdOps, Production Operations, DevOps, Full Stack Developer, Jenkins, Puppet, HTML, CSS, JAVA, PHP, Javascript.Net, TFS

About Akyzen

Akyzen provides a wide range of IT solutions from infrastructure and security to workforce solutions, business intelligence, software solutions, and an industry-leading Managed IT Services practice. Across all of these verticals, our approach is to become your strategic partner, understand your business and your priorities, and develop a solution that works for you to achieve succes

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80,000.00 to $85,000.00 /year

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