We are looking for a Lead DevOps Architect with strong developer skills to be responsible for migrating internal teams off of Jira to Azure DevOps and off of Confluence to SharePoint. Successful candidates for this role will need practical and hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and be fluent in scripting languages, writing code from requirements, writing jobs and job workflows, analyzing APIs, using REST services, working daily with a small and highly motivated team, and being quality and detail oriented. The work to be done includes building and contributing to technical solutions to accomplish the migrations. The deliverables will need to be written well, documented well, and tested well so that they can be used for the initial wave of migrations as well as ongoing and future migrations.

Our Lead DevOps Architect drives the vision and use of work management, resource management, portfolio management tools, and user adoption through the introduction of innovation and continuous improvements within the toolset.
We're looking for experience in building, connecting, and administering applications/services in complex and high-quality environments to support IT and Business Operations. Candidates should be comfortable with cloud environments, their PaaS and IaaS offerings, and using agile methodologies at the team level. Our Lead DevOps Architect should possess an understanding of software development, software configuration management, deployment and release management, application lifecycle management, infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps tools and processes.

Responsibilities & Ideal Skills:
· Deep practical experience with Azure DevOps, from the UI and from the REST API. A plus if the candidate also has practical experience with Jira and the Jira API.
· Working knowledge of Confluence and SharePoint (information architecture, page creation).
· Scripting languages (PowerShell is preferred, but Node and Bash are also acceptable).
· Understanding and using REST services (API, endpoints, GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, and DELETE verbs).
· Understanding how to write a highly fault tolerant job including handling exceptions and when to recover from certain exceptions and when to stop/fail.
· Understanding how to write a highly observable job including asynchronous status events, reporting, and logging.
· Writing tests to ensure the code/script written is performing well after refactoring.
· Solid understanding on how to write script/code/jobs on a Windows machine.
· Project experience with data mapping and the extract-transform-load (ETL) workflow. The candidate will need to map data from one type of data object to another type of data object.
· Plan, organize, and control resources, procedures, and timing for technical processes and projects.
· Analyze and document requirements by collaborating closely with a range of users in the organization.
· Assist in the development of detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, and status reports.
· Assist in risk analysis and supervising the progress of plans against project milestones and budgets.
· Provide technical and analytical guidance to project teams.
· Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
· Perform other duties as required.

Additional Ideal Skills:
· Self-motivated. This position is remote and the candidate will need to ensure they are making progress and/or asking for help when needed.
· Terrific communicator over written (documents), email, Teams/Slack, and video (Teams, Zoom).
· Quality-driven. We only get one chance to migrate a project, data fidelity is critical, and it needs to be done right.
· Can work within the Agile/scrum methodology, which includes being fast but not sacrificing quality for speed.
· Can work as part of the team, contributing to the understanding and success of the team and its objectives.
· The ability to quickly and accurately analyze and diagnose issues with services, implementing code or script with defensive patterns to prevent dataflow disruption.
· Practical and hands-on knowledge of SQL and NoSQL implementations, schema development and maintenance, report generation with PowerBI or Excel.

Minimum Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree in IT or equivalent work experience plus five (5) years’ relevant experience in project and process planning and management.
· Knowledge of multi-functional departmental processes preferred.
· Advanced analytical and problem solving skills with innovative outcomes which future-proof the solutions.
· Ability to effectively architect solutions and actively participate in multiple projects simultaneously.
· Strong organizational, time management, interpersonal skills with ability to effectively multi-task.
· Comprehensive presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.

Domicile / Relocation Information:
This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States. 
The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.
 
Application Criteria:
Upload current copy of Resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire November 17, 2023.

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• Building and iterating on solutions that generate value;
• Acting as a change agent to advance curiosity and performance.

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