Basic Purpose:

　　Reviews Lower (non-Production) environments and associated activities to ensure compliance with Enterprise standards and the ISD Environments Management Directive, preventing, or documenting and/or remediating any known gaps. Additionally, ensure adequate preparation for implementation of IT Service modifications in the Production environments, in a manner that protects and enhances operational availability. This includes learning Navy Federal Release controls, while operating as a Release Manager, which entails assisting Release Owners manage their lower environments' work and providing oversight review and approval of their activities, leveraging the candidate's industry experience and knowledge.

　　Specific Qualifications:

　　Has 7+ Years of experience working in IT Environments Management for large, complex and mission-critical applications

　　Demonstrates effective English communications skills, both written and verbal

　　Has significant understanding of software build and release processes, including associated risks and considerations

　　Has 3+ Years experience with automate testing, with hands-on experience developing test plans, case and associated scripts; DevOps experience is a plus

　　Has significant experience working within a team, and independently, performing root cause analysis of incidents

　　Works independently with minimal oversight (Mid-Level to Highly Experienced)

　　Possesses a degree or formal training in Computer Science and/or Information Technology

　　Holds certification in appropriate engineering disciplines

　　Has working knowledge ServiceNow ITSM

　　Demonstrates understanding of Lower / non-Production environments in an enterprise environment

　　Strong understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Waterfall, Agile methodologies (Preferably SAFe) and DevOps

　　Has significant experience with distributed systems architectures, possessing understanding of associated management tools

　　Experience in the development of medium to highly complexed distributed business applications

　　Strong understanding of Change & Release Management frameworks and processes

　　Strong understanding of Risk management and associated frameworks, preferably ISACA COBIT 5 and/or similar frameworks

　　Highly Desired Experience With:

　　Finance Industry

　　ITIL concepts, especially Service Transition, with certification

　　DevOps and/or Agile concepts, with certification

　　Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

　　Testing, and related automation

　　Experience with ServiceNow as a power user and/or developer and/or administrator

　　Cloud computing, with specific understanding of: Azure

　　Security concepts: access control and authorization

　　Distributed technology (AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows): WebSphere, .Net, Lotus Notes, Java, SOA

　　DBMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Progress and Teradata

　　Testing (Unit, Functional, Performance and Stress/Load), including Automation / Scripting

　　Automation/scripting: Python, Ansible, WSS, BAW, Pega, JavaScript, JAVA, etc.

　　Collecting and delivering detailed information, with analysis/interpretation, to personnel of varying levels, from engineer through management

　　Application development

　　Nice to Have Experience With:

　　IBM Mainframe (z Series) configuration items including data, applications and infrastructure: COBOL, CICS, Assembler, REXX, JCL, FileAid, AbendAid, Strobe and SysView;

　　Reporting: Crystal Reports and Cognos

　　WebSphere Engineering and Administration responsibilities

　　Administering middleware application servers (WebSphere, MQ, IBM BPM, JBoss, .Net, etc).

　　Specific Duties:

　　The engineer will assist in the management of multiple complex environments to ensure continuous systems availability, in support of IT services/products including build, maintenance and testing - throughout the release lifecycle

　　Participate in projects as an Environments/Release Management resource teaching, supporting, and reviewing designs, plans and execution of associated activities

　　Lead and participate in Team initiatives

　　Lead initiatives to help Release teams automate testing – coaching new scripters in best practices, while performing general testing knowledge transfer/management

　　Coach and mentor junior Release Team Members