Basic Purpose: Reviews Lower (non-Production) environments and associated activities to ensure compliance with Enterprise standards and the ISD Environments Management Directive, preventing, or documenting and/or remediating any known gaps. Additionally, ensure adequate preparation for implementation of IT Service modifications in the Production environments, in a manner that protects and enhances operational availability. This includes learning Navy Federal Release controls, while operating as a Release Manager, which entails assisting Release Owners manage their lower environments' work and providing oversight review and approval of their activities, leveraging the candidate's industry experience and knowledge. Specific Qualifications: + Has 7+ Years of experience working in IT Environments Management for large, complex and mission-critical applications + Demonstrates effective English communications skills, both written and verbal + Has significant understanding of software build and release processes, including associated risks and considerations + Has 3+ Years experience with automate testing, with hands-on experience developing test plans, case and associated scripts; DevOps experience is a plus + Has significant experience working within a team, and independently, performing root cause analysis of incidents + Works independently with minimal oversight (Mid-Level to Highly Experienced) + Possesses a degree or formal training in Computer Science and/or Information Technology + Holds certification in appropriate engineering disciplines + Has working knowledge ServiceNow ITSM + Demonstrates understanding of Lower / non-Production environments in an enterprise environment + Strong understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Waterfall, Agile methodologies (Preferably SAFe) and DevOps + Has significant experience with distributed systems architectures, possessing understanding of associated management tools + Experience in the development of medium to highly complexed distributed business applications + Strong understanding of Change & Release Management frameworks and processes + Strong understanding of Risk management and associated frameworks, preferably ISACA COBIT 5 and/or similar frameworks Highly Desired Experience With: + Finance Industry + ITIL concepts, especially Service Transition, with certification + DevOps and/or Agile concepts, with certification + Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) + Testing, and related automation + Experience with ServiceNow as a power user and/or developer and/or administrator + Cloud computing, with specific understanding of: Azure + Security concepts: access control and authorization + Distributed technology (AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows): WebSphere, .Net, Lotus Notes, Java, SOA + DBMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Progress and Teradata + Testing (Unit, Functional, Performance and Stress/Load), including Automation / Scripting + Automation/scripting: Python, Ansible, WSS, BAW, Pega, JavaScript, JAVA, etc. + Collecting and delivering detailed information, with analysis/interpretation, to personnel of varying levels, from engineer through management + Application development Nice to Have Experience With: + IBM Mainframe (z Series) configuration items including data, applications and infrastructure: COBOL, CICS, Assembler, REXX, JCL, FileAid, AbendAid, Strobe and SysView; + Reporting: Crystal Reports and Cognos + WebSphere Engineering and Administration responsibilities + Administering middleware application servers (WebSphere, MQ, IBM BPM, JBoss, .Net, etc). Specific Duties: + The engineer will assist in the management of multiple complex environments to ensure continuous systems availability, in support of IT services/products including build, maintenance and testing - throughout the release lifecycle + Participate in projects as an Environments/Release Management resource teaching, supporting, and reviewing designs, plans and execution of associated activities + Lead and participate in Team initiatives + Lead initiatives to help Release teams automate testing – coaching new scripters in best practices, while performing general testing knowledge transfer/management + Coach and mentor junior Release Team Members