Software Configuration Engineer

NIIT is looking for a Senior Configuration
Engineer to join a dynamic environment in the transportation industry. The Senior
Configuration Engineer will be responsible for maintenance and configuration of
pre-production and production environments, build/deployment tools, automation,
weekly and at-will deployments, both manual and automated. This requires an
excellent understanding of application/infrastructure design, networking,
application deployment and management, and top notch troubleshooting skills.
This position will be responsible mostly for configuration and deployment of
applications to internal and lower/production environments. The candidate will
be engaging with teams across multiple time zones.

Essential Duties and
Responsibilities:

Overall ownership of deployments, which includes
configuration, permissions settings, troubleshooting, and effective
communications within the team as well as rest of the applicable IT
organization

Create and automate cloud-based (AWS) builds
and deployments

Create configuration management scripts

Automate and run traditional builds and deployments

Work with Development and QA to formalize and
implement branching and merging strategies

Manage and maintain healthy environment
structures in both lower environments as well as PROD environments

Develop and enforce the use of a transform
policy for several applications across multiple environments. Providing
configuration related expertise to several development teams.

Maintain a consistent structure for all
environments across all applications, following a set of industry best practice
standards and standardizations

Hands on experience:

Experience with Deployment Tools, including Octopus

Expertise on VSTS Build and Deploy Process and Practice

Automation of Build script using VSTS Build workflow

Experience with one or more scripting languages (PowerShell,
bash, etc.)

Understanding of Application Server Deployment and
Administration IIS

Implementation of VSTS Code Quality, Code Coverage, UTC tools

Expertise in GIT Version Control

Designing, developing and maintaining
automated frameworks for creating a
CI/CD pipeline using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), and CD tools including
Octopus.

Qualifications:

Master troubleshooter capable of quickly
identifying blocking issues and resolving problems

Outstanding written and oral communications

Exceptional
attention to detail

Self-starter,
motivated, requiring little to no supervision

Process-oriented

Great
documentation habits

Dedicated
to commitments and timely deliverables

Shares
and implements best practices

Successful
track record of supporting high-availability web application environments

Desired Knowledge:

Experience with IIS configuration

Experience with AWS migration and configuration

Experience with SiteCore CMS administration

Experience with Akamai CDN

Knowledge of development cycle and coding practices

Knowledge of Infrastructure server management tools like
Rackspace

Knowledge of Agile processes

Knowledge of Technologies .NET, java, Tomcat, PowerShell, NService
Bus, Web API, WCF, REST APIs

Knowledge of Infrastructure automation (auto-scaling and cloud
server management)

AWS Certification is a plus

PCI security certification

Experience with developing and supporting a CI/CD environment

Expertise in troubleshooting deployment related issues across
multiple environments and technologies

Expertise in establishing and enforcing CI/CD best practices