VP, DevOps Engineer

at  Synchrony

Job Description:

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum 5 years of experience with DevOps Engineering OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 7 years of experience with DevOps Engineering.
• 5+ years of application development experience.
• Proficiency and/or knowledge of CI/CD processes
• Strong experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and/or AWS

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

• You must be 18 years or older
• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent
• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process
• You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
• New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles. Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months’ time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles. Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 18 months’ time in position before they can post. All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don’t meet the time in position or performance expectations).
  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

ROLE SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

The VP, DevOps Engineer craves working in a hands-on system design and architecture environment, and leads by example to make sure time sensitive projects get done on time and to specifications. To be successful in this role, deep expertise mobile solutions, system reliability engineering, and application architecture.
This VP will lead the automation of Synchrony’s Credit Engineering CI/CD .

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Standardizing bitbucket processes across teams
• Integrating code/vulnerability tests within build pipelines
• Developing and Testing engineering practices within multiple end-to-end processes
• Implement new technologies and assist developers as they migrate to new technologies
• Drive a CI/CD strategy using our Jenkins, Bitbucket, and uDeploy stack.
• Automation to sync non-production regions/codebases
• Work to standardize deployments and documentation
• Mentor and influence all levels of the team: in this role, you will have the opportunity to influence up and down the chain of command
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security and technology standards set by Synchrony Financial
• Assist in crafting and maintaining the future state technology architectural strategy, along with our application modernization and migration roadmap.
• Ensure application code quality through development, test, and QA
• Participate in addressing root cause analyses, incident reports and provide direction in problem resolution
• Ability to analyze production defects, troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, and implement fixes
• Passionate about the latest technologies, open source projects and languages
• Influence many agile development teams through all phases of the Agile development life cycle through SAFE
• Provide 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year
• Identify ways to increase efficiency and improve system performance
• Work with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into the company’s products