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Our client, a home loan company, is seeking a DevOps Solution Architect
Location: Chicago, IL Position Type: Full Time Job Summary: The CoE DevOps Solution Architect provides accountability for the technical solutions from the Modern Engineering Center of Excellence to ensure that the new technology, processes, and ways of working within IT align with IT strategy, increase the FHLBC security posture, and drive higher quality products. Modern Engineering is FHLBC's adoption of DevSecOps processes and tools. The CoE DevOps Architect is responsible for the technical thought leadership of modern product development technology and supporting DevSecOps processes across FHLBC, addressing people, process, and tool aspects of organizational change. Primary responsibilities include developing holistic architecture for all Modern Engineering platforms (including Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Continuous Security, Infrastructure Immutability, Automated Testing, and Observability), overseeing output of other technical resources (e.g., CoE Security Architect, CoE Quality Architect, CoE DevOps Engineer), and leading the technical implementation of the Modern Engineering solutions across FHLBC. The ability to build collaborative stakeholder relationships is a must. Duties:- Serve as technical authority for IT on the Modern Engineering solutions
- Serve as subject matter expert for modern product development and tooling landscape; stay current on market trends and research
- Work directly with breadth of stakeholders across the organization (from individual contributors through senior leadership) by leading and being accountable for the design and delivery of advanced cloud and DevSecOps solutions
- Educate stakeholders from the business and IT on services offered by Azure DevOps, AWS, and other SaaS solution providers and how to best leverage the services for improved business performance
- Facilitate leadership alignment on Modern Engineering vision, strategy, and methods
- Define future state application and reference architecture, operations models, and technical requirements of cloud ecosystem in accordance with leading practices from industry and AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Design, architect, and manage all Modern Engineering platforms and environments for scale across the IT organization
- Perform and follow strong software coding practices
- Iteratively improve deployment methodologies through process streamlining and automation
- Work with the CoE and Delivery Teams to define automation strategy tools and deployment, and build and maintain solutions
- Evaluate benefits and risks of a solution's feasibility and functionality
- Lead and coordinate technical reviews (architectural, security, compliance, etc.)
- Consult on and evangelize the behavior change and mindset shifts required of people resources to implement new architecture and processes
- Partner with other CoE members and HR to account for effort associated with culture change as part of implementation strategies
- Model desired culture including open knowledge sharing, proactive cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive learning via continuous improvement
- Define, review, and implement Modern Engineering Standards
- Define, update and document technical Procedures related to software development best practices
- Provide collateral support, including architectural guidelines, design guidelines, coding guidelines, test guidelines, handover guidelines
- Develop project case studies, training materials and technical guidance for teams within FHLBC
- Assist with estimating work efforts required for each phase of a project
- Structure work efforts and determine engagement model of technical architects from CoE and IT Delivery Teams (teams using scrum or Kanban to manage workload in conjunction with Agile Framework)
- Review and approve technical output of other CoE technical resources (e.g., CoE Security Architect, CoE Quality Architect, CoE DevOps Engineer)
- Contribute to and enhance Security Standards and Procedures for Modern Engineering solutions
- Accountable for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, and maintenance of CI/CD infrastructure. This may include provisioning of AWS instances, configuring servers, streamlining deployments, scaling out servers
- Monitor and consult on all network, security, and other services to meet the organization's current and future requirements
- Manage current state and future state Modern Engineering tooling including configuration, maintenance, and upgrades
- Implement key performance indicators (KPI) to monitor process health and service metrics
- Facilitate compliance with internal and external audit and regulatory requirements
- 10+ years of broadened software engineering and architecture experience preferred
- 5+ years of demonstrable software engineering and DevOps experience
- Must demonstrate accountability, sound decision making, and analytical thoroughness
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps Preferred)
- Hands-on AWS and Azure public cloud experience in a production environment (e.g., network, security, deployment, automation, serverless technologies)
- Hands-on experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Platform Deployment Manager, Azure ARM) and/or
- Hands-on experience to common container and container orchestration solutions (e.g. Docker Enterprise, Kubernetes, AWS ECS)
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required. Computer Science or related field preferred
- Certification on AWS and Azure DevOps platforms preferred
- Experience working with and integrating system components into other vendor solutions
- Experience with the products and solutions of open-source, cloud, and SaaS ecosystems
- Experience working within an Agile/Scrum framework
- Experience collaborating across multiple functional/technical teams to deliver a project
- Ability to design optimally durable and consistent patterns for distributed systems
- Ability to communicate with customers on a business level and translate their needs into a technical solution
- Ability to adapt to organizational change and advocate for the required culture change within the organization
- Strong emotional intelligence to identify the behavioral and cultural indicators to team effectiveness
- Consultative, collaborative approach to solving complex problems, with customer service skills
- Invigorated by new challenges and ability to professionally challenge the status quo
- Passionate about developing the skills of team members through technical and professional mentoring
- Demonstrated growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems
- Self-starter; ability to proactively define work and deliver results