DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

LOB Description:

As a member of DevOps Engineering team the person will be responsible for DevOps Configuration Engineering, Deployments in the Lower Level testing and Production environments, Environments Management, Keeping the environment pristine and as production like as possible. Day to day activities include, but not limited to the following:

• Deployment of code and/or retrofit of production code
• Configure CD tools for Application Deployments and Onboarding Applications into CI/CD.
• Defect triage of deployment issues in the controlled environments.
• Communicating to our clients and/or consulting on design of infrastructure
• Working side by side with testers and developers to ensure all are working cohesively.
• Technical documentation
• Partnership and communications with internal customers and partner teams

LOB Responsibilities:

• Senior DevOps engineer

Job Description:
This job is responsible for configuring and delivering software delivery automation. Key responsibilities include ensuring software deployments are configured to meet standards for access, ownership, and authentication and that software promotion release pipelines are well designed and follow Continuous Delivery (CD) best practices. Job expectations include the ability to integrate development, testing practices, software delivery tools, and runtime application standards at the bank.

Responsibilities:

• Configures and maintains the set of tools and services that provide Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) services and validates access control mechanisms for the Software and Infrastructure Engineering team throughout the software development lifecycle
• Reviews the configuration of applications servers to confirm that CI/CD service platform onboarding pre-requisites are available and configured properly
• Monitors and responds to “how-to" information requests about CI/CD Software service use and to alerts based on the CI/CD services KPIs
• Responds to risk or audit identified issues with access control processed designed for compliance with firm separation of duties practices and software release management standards, and policies
• Works with Infrastructure and Solutions Engineers to understand changes in CI/CD service platform components and behaviors, creating or contributing to the CI/CD Platform services documentation
• Executes change tickets for CI/CD service onboarding and decommissioning using approved change management processes as scheduled by Software or Infrastructure Engineers
• Works with Site Reliability Engineers to understand the planned changes in monitoring and alerting capabilities

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Application Lifecycle Management Automation tools and integration using one or more of the following tools: Ansible tower by Red Hat, Jenkins or Hudson, XL Release
• Experience in working with one or more version control tools like BitBucket/Git, RTC (IBM Rational Team Concert), Subversion, Perforce or TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Working knowledge/expertise with JIRA, NEXUS and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
• 5 years of experience in Windows Build, Code Deployment and Linux Application troubleshooting functions
• Effective Communication – Clear, Concise and the ability to articulate ideas
• Should be able to lead and actively participate in conference calls with technical and business users
• Exposure and familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies (Agile/Waterfall)
• Candidate must be self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, able to work with little supervision and a responsible team-player
• Willing and able to work in a 24 X 7 environment including after hours and weekend support to support multiple time zones
• Able to work on Databases: Query and updates
• Computer networking skills and working knowledge: Load balancers, firewall, etc.
• Degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Communication, Information Technology.
• Understanding/experience with web application communication protocols - SOAP, HTTP, XML etc
• Basic knowledge on MQ’s
• Working knowledge of application setup, support, and configuration
• Expert knowledge of LINUX operating systems with hands on experience in troubleshooting Linux application issues
• Hands on working Windows IIS administration

Desired Qualifications:

• Exposure to financial, banking business processes, technologies, system and process architecture
• Continuous Integration & Deployment knowledge and hands on skill involving any or all of Jenkins, Maven/Ant, JFrog Artifactory, TFS/BitBucket, Ansible Tower, XL Release, or similar CI/CD technologies
• Exposure to Openshift or Kubernetes Containers
• Environment Management skills on WINDOWS
• Secure software delivery
• Release management
• Networking skills
• Java Technologies & Containers 
• Suitable Masters/Bachelor’s academic degree

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Adaptability
• Application Development
• Influence
• Innovative Thinking
• Risk Management
• Architecture
• Project Management
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$101,000.00 - $133,600.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.