VP, DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

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 .

Our Way of Working

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home, near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

You are the right candidate if you…

• Enjoy creating CI/CD solutions across multiple hardware and software environments
• Care about resiliency. Our applications are business critical and need active and working DR capabilities
• Understand how to get the job done. Implementation is key when working in a highly-regulated field like credit underwriting
• Are a leader: This VP will influence a large cross functional team to deliver working automated processes. Are you up for the challenge?
• Learn quickly and adapt to new technology: Let’s face it – technology changes by the minute. Are you able to quickly adapt and learn to be productive with new languages, operating systems, and tools?

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

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

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience with continuous integration environments
• Proficiency with Cloudbees/Jenkins deployments
• Proficiency and/or knowledge of multi-branch pipelines and Jenkinsfile
• Familiarity using splunk for production support
• Expertise with JSON, REST and XML based web services
• Working knowledge of developing/supporting large-scale applications
• Excellence in technical communication with technical and non-technical peers
• Strong cross-functional team player with the ability to work seamlessly across a matrix organization and partner with global development companies
• Desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Experience developing and supporting financial/banking applications
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence clients, team members, management and external groups
• Strong attention to detail in a team environment
• Strong oral and written communication, analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to analyze, use structured problem so