Dev Ops, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

Purpose and Function:

Build automation, orchestration, configuration management and other solutions scalability and maintainability of Charles River’s global Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. Collaborate with Tech Services, Application Management, Product and Engineering to streamline and standardize operations.

Key functional details:

• Contribute to Ansible automation and orchestration code
• Review code with team
• Build automated QA with Molecule and other testing technologies
• Operations automation:
• Define infrastructure requirements
• Create workflow and project templates
• Job scheduling: 
• Research vendors
• Implement pilots
• Plan and execute migrations
• Configuration management:
• Implement platforms and tools to store, control, and enforce application, OS, and middleware configurations
• Deployment automation:
• Build a deployment pipeline for application components, configurations and customizations
• Version control
• Design and implement version control system repository to drive deployment automation, operations automation, and configuration management
• IT Service Management (ITSM):
• Research and implement tools to streamline service management and delivery, and support (Change, Incident, and Problem Management).
• Performance management:
• Research and implement tools to track performance and availability metrics to facilitate service improvement. 
• Integration: 
• Configure, test, and support integration of tools
• Automation scripts: 
• Develop, test, deploy, and support scripts (e.g., Powershell, Python, Perl, etc.) to facilitate automation and tool integration.

Required Competencies

• Proven ability to excel as part of a technology services/operations team in a fast-paced, high-growth, mission critical technology-based Software as a Service (SaaS) environment.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT, Finance with a technology concentration.
• 7+ years in IT system administration and infrastructure related management and automation software.
• Excellent “soft skills” including interpersonal/verbal and written communications, customer service, teamwork, ability to multi-task, organized, attention to detail, self-motivated, eager to learn, calmness under pressure.

Ideal Competencies/Experience:

• Experience with any of the following software is desired: Powershell, MS SQL Server, VMware, MS Windows, Devops tools such as any major configuration management software, any version control technology, any major job scheduler. 
• Financial services/trading system experience is a plus.