Configuration / DevOps Engineer

About the Position:

We are looking for an experienced Configuration Management Analyst to support the product line. Dayforce is a comprehensive, modern cloud human capital management (HCM) SaaS product suite and platform for managing the entire employee lifecycle.

The Configuration Management Analyst is responsible for providing configuration management process support and maintaining the infrastructure and tools to enable rapid development and release for all Dayforce software solutions. The CM Analyst will collaborate with Development, Support, and Operations throughout the software product lifecycle to ensure high quality deliverables.

The Configuration Management (RCM) team supports the product and development teams as they build, test, and deploy software, both monolithic and microservices based software.

The RCM team does that by defining, managing, monitoring, and reporting on all development/QA environments, software branches, builds, and deployments. The RCM team also builds and maintains tools for use by the team itself as well as by the product and development teams. These tools range from simple PowerShell scripts to monitor server disk space to a self-service Configuration Management Tools Portal.

Responsibilities:

Work with all product teams to deliver quality products on time

Take ownership of the integrity of source control and build environments

Maintain and improve the process for releasing builds into QA

Maintain and improve the process for releasing software to customers including patches and maintenance releases

Manage release and development branches, including tagging and merges, and apply best practices

Maintain and support Development and QA infrastructure deployments

Improve build configuration and automation to efficiently manage the release of code

Actively participate in continuous quality improvements in all processes

Qualifications:

University degree in Computer Science or related field

Experience with the software development life cycle

Experience working with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Puppet)

Experience with build automation tools (e.g. MS Build, PowerShell, Jenkins)

Experience working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

Experience with source control management practices and advanced branching techniques (e.g. Git, GitHub, TFVC, BitBucket)

Experience administering application lifecycle management tools (e.g. TFS/VSTS/Azure DevOps, Jira)

Proficiency with SQL and an understanding of relational database systems

Experience in defining and improving software build, deployment, and release processes

Experience working in .NET application development

Experience working in Microsoft Azure

Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

Ability to work in a team environment with minimal supervision

Experience working in an Agile development environment