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 applicationsDemonstrates effective English communications skills, both written and verbalHas significant understanding of software build and release processes, including associated risks and considerationsHas 3+ Years experience with automate testing, with hands-on experience developing test plans, case and associated scripts; DevOps experience is a plusHas significant experience working within a team, and independently, performing root cause analysis of incidentsWorks independently with minimal oversight (Mid-Level to Highly Experienced)Possesses a degree or formal training in Computer Science and/or Information TechnologyHolds certification in appropriate engineering disciplinesHas working knowledge ServiceNow ITSMDemonstrates understanding of Lower / non-Production environments in an enterprise environmentStrong understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Waterfall, Agile methodologies (Preferably SAFe) and DevOpsHas significant experience with distributed systems architectures, possessing understanding of associated management toolsExperience in the development of medium to highly complexed distributed business applicationsStrong understanding of Change & Release Management frameworks and processesStrong understanding of Risk management and associated frameworks, preferably ISACA COBIT 5 and/or similar frameworks

Highly Desired Experience With:

Finance IndustryITIL concepts, especially Service Transition, with certificationDevOps and/or Agile concepts, with certificationSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)Testing, and related automationExperience with ServiceNow as a power user and/or developer and/or administratorCloud computing, with specific understanding of: AzureSecurity concepts: access control and authorizationDistributed technology (AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows): WebSphere, .Net, Lotus Notes, Java, SOADBMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Progress and TeradataTesting (Unit, Functional, Performance and Stress/Load), including Automation / ScriptingAutomation/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 managementApplication 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 CognosWebSphere Engineering and Administration responsibilitiesAdministering 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 lifecycleParticipate in projects as an Environments/Release Management resource teaching, supporting, and reviewing designs, plans and execution of associated activitiesLead and participate in Team initiativesLead initiatives to help Release teams automate testing – coaching new scripters in best practices, while performing general testing knowledge transfer/managementCoach and mentor junior Release Team Members