Denver, Colorado, United States
Software Factory Pipeline Management: Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Software Factory Pipeline, leveraging DevSecOps principles to ensure secure, efficient, and scalable software delivery. Oversee setup, testing, maintenance, and implementation of pipeline changes, ensuring high availability and operational efficiency. Coordinate and support changes that impact software development teams, fostering collaboration and minimizing disruptions. Cloud & Infrastructure Automation: Design and implement AWS unclassified environments using Terraform for automated provisioning. Manage classified environments utilizing VMware and vRealize Orchestrator (VRO) for secure deployments. Core DevSecOps Toolchain Management: Maintain and optimize key pipeline tools for CI/CD operations,: Artifactory Bitbucket Jenkins Jira & Confluence Fortify Webinspect Leadership & Agile Management: Team Leadership: Manage a team of 14 onsite and 4 remote pipeline engineers, providing technical guidance and professional development. Scrum Master Responsibilities: Oversee two concurrent sprints: Break/Fix Sprint – Addressing immediate pipeline issues. Project & Pipeline Sprint – Driving long-term pipeline initiatives. Product Owner Responsibilities: Collaborate with stakeholders and the Scrum Master to define execution plans based on business requirements. Deliver new capabilities and maintain/update existing products aligned with organizational goals. Performance Metrics & Reporting: Generate and present weekly metrics to upper management, detailing: Sprint progress reports and key deliverables. Nightly pipeline run success rates and areas for optimization. Insights for continuous pipeline improvements to enhance product quality and performance. People & Performance Management: Serve as Section Manager, Responsibilities include:. Bi-Weekly Team Meetings Goal Setting & Career Development Monthly One-on-One Meetings Mid-Year & Year-End Performance Reviews
Federal Systems Support & Identity Verification: Provide technical leadership and support for all federal systems supporting the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for identity verification and security operations. Infrastructure Automation & Configuration Management: Cloud Services & Architecture (AWS): Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices to standardize and automate cloud resource management. Team Leadership & Collaboration: Coordinate and mentor teams, fostering collaboration to develop and improve existing solutions that meet the technical and security requirements Serve as the Xpanxion Manager, overseeing cross-team communication across systems, data, and development teams (local and remote). manage weekly scrums, on-call rotations, release schedules, and project resource allocations to optimize team efficiency and delivery. Drive career development initiatives, providing performance evaluations, mentorship, and training opportunities for team members. DevOps Leadership & CI/CD Implementation: Lead DevOps transformation across five remote sites, implementing cloud services in AWS using OpenShift, Terraform, and Ansible to automate Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments. Build CI/CD and Test-Driven Development (TDD) pipelines, streamlining software delivery and deployment processes. Support and implement CI/CD environments in AWS for proof-of-concept (PoC) projects, demonstrating the efficiency of deploying services using OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Docker. Containerization & Application Deployment: Deploy and manage Docker-based applications for version-controlled services, including HTTPD, GitLab, and MySQL on Linux-based environments. Enable developers to package applications with dependencies for seamless deployment, integrating with OpenShift to facilitate code and application deployments across various environments.
Responsible for following all support policies relating to new or existing acquisitions, system build and support matrix, including the change management process and on call support, system migration and implementation of support and monitoring tools needed to provide environment availability. Work with the acquisitions and internal teams to define and resolve technical issues in a timely manner. Responsible for coordinating and organizing team mentoring and collaboration efforts to develop and execute solutions that satisfy the requirements for new or existing acquisitions or Google specifications for technical innovation, cost effectiveness, performance, scalability and reliability. Research and investigate performance issues in the environment. Responsible for coordinating capacity and space issues in the environment. As well as implementing storage allocation assigned for both local and SAN. CPU and memory upgrades. Capacity management and reporting. Participated in Capacity planning exercises. Responsible for environment migrations to the Google Compute Platform (GCE)from physical data centers and other cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and RackSpace Cloud Services. Responsible for the design, configuration, and implementation of all Solaris and Linux based systems. Linux based OS includes: Red Hat, Centos, and Ubuntu. Responsible for resizing and creating new and existing SAN storage volumes using Veritas Volume Manager, Linux LVM, and ZFS for Solaris. Responsible for install Sun Cluster 3.2 with Oracle RAC framework. Responsible for Supporting Oracle RAC cluster infrastructure Responsible for setting up OS and assisting with Application Alerts for monitoring and maintaining system and service availability. System automation and system build and configuration via Puppet, Perforce and Git repos for maintaining and deploying to our cloud Environments. Performed Code reviews, maintaining system automation code and system configurati