Application Programmer (DevOps Engineer)

$124,800 - $135,200/Yr

BCforward - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Application Programmer V (DevOps Engineer) at BCforward is a critical role focused on the operational enhancements, maintenance, and support of applications within the E2E Forecasting platform suite. This position is based in Jersey City, NJ, Plano, TX, or Atlanta, GA, and is expected to last for 12 months. The role requires a hybrid work model, with a standard schedule of Monday to Friday, 5x8 hours. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing platform security and access, providing application and infrastructure support, executing code migrations, and ensuring that technology processes align with both tactical and strategic information management initiatives. The Infrastructure and Operations Analyst will act as a liaison between enterprise infrastructure support teams and production support staff, ensuring the delivery of technology solutions meets service delivery objectives. Additionally, the role involves ensuring compliance with IT policies and standards, as well as agreed-upon service levels.

Responsibilities

• Ensures the overall health of the E2E forecasting suite of applications.
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience.
• Manage code migrations, ensuring source control policies are being followed.
• Applies application maintenance releases, upgrades, and hot fixes as required.
• Designs, implements, and maintains platform security including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Exadata/Oracle.
• Work on Proof of Concepts to test new technologies.
• Work on DevOps tools like BitBucket, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, Ansible Tower, and XL Release to enable Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• Manages UNIX access, directory setup, and required archival mechanisms.
• Coordinate with infrastructure support team for outages/upgrades.
• Performs platform capacity planning and management.
• Serves as an escalation point for escalated production and/or platform issues.
• Create documentation of the infrastructure and operations of the platform.

Requirements

• Strong Core Java and Unix scripting skills.
• Experience with DevOps tools like BitBucket, Ansible, XL Release, Jenkins, and JFrog Artifactory.
• Strong programming knowledge in Java, Python, and Shell scripting.
• Solid understanding of application infrastructure on both cloud-based and non-cloud environments.
• Experience with core application framework/library implementations.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD setup and implementations.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.
• Education: B.E. / B. Tech/M.E. /M. Tech/B.Sc./M.Sc./BCA/MCA (prefer IT/CS specialization).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in UNIX, Shell Scripting, Exadata, and Oracle.
• Willingness to learn technologies like Openshift (cloud).
• Strong analytical, communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

• Major medical insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employer-provided group life insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401k retirement plan