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Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.
With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest "Canadian-Owned" IT staffing/consulting company.
Procom's areas of staffing expertise include:
Application Development
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Business/Systems Analysis
Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
Infrastructure & Network Services
Risk Management & Compliance
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Security & Privacy
Specialties Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

Configuration Engineer Summary

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is looking for a Configuration Engineer in Hamilton, NJ.

Configuration Engineer Details

Will be responsible for configuration management, execution, tracking, risk assessment, and documentation delivery to ensure that configuration management process meet or exceed the expectations of delivery and product teams across the organization. A key part of the role is to partner with delivery teams to proactively ensure better quality by rapidly building, testing, & deploying deliverables via reliable and repeatable processes with traceability and evidence. This position requires a familiarity with agile methodologies, continuous integration, with a drive towards continuous improvement along with a demonstrated ability to coordinate with multiple teams and projects.

Configuration Engineer Responsibilities

- Owns, designs, develops and implements complete configuration management policies and

processes to support multiple product lines and services.

- Provides source code management expertise to ensure no code is lost, know what code is

deployed when and where, and assist in branching and merging implementations.

- Implements environment configuration patterns and practices to allow for consistent single binary code deployment to each environment in an isolated rollback capable fashion.

- Integrates Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools from concept through implementation with the code to deploy delivery process.

- Works with development team to establish code versioning guidelines that provide prompt

feedback to allow for timely adjustment and revalidation.

- Strives to reduce complexity and assists development, QA and engineering with utilizing

automation, Source Control and CM tool sets to decrease their time to value & warranty support work.

- Automates to reduce manual error-prone steps and builds out repeatable Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Testing (CT) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

- Functions as the technical "Tool Smith" and liaison with release management planning, Change Control Board (CCB) communications and oversight for best of breed build and delivery practices.

- Provide support for the existing applications and databases as required.

- Investigate new technologies and approaches to address business needs and improve existing systems.

- Using and recommending best practices for application development support.

- Ensure that software products meet all prerequisites (ex: code review) before releasing software to various environments (Dev, QA, Staging, or Production).

- Collaborates with Infrastructure Engineers, Application Development, Users and Management to coordinate changes.

Configuration Engineer Start Date

ASAP 

Configuration Engineer Assignment Length

Permanent

Configuration Engineer Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in software development or equivalent experience

- Five (5) + years configuration management experience or software automated build and deploy processes in a software development environment

- Experience with Source

 Code Control tools such as Subversion SVN, TFS, Git is required.

- Ability to use, maintain and develop complex build scripts using CCNet, NAnt, MSBuild,

PowerShell and other scripting languages.

- Strong understanding of Configuration Management in both Hardware and Software.

- Experienced with implementing and supporting Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as TFS, Team City, Jenkins, etc. for automated build, testing and deployments.

- Experience with 'Click Once" methodology of deployment.

- Experience with automated database deployment & management tools such as RoundhousE, Microsoft SSDT, APexSQL; RedGate SQL Automation pack desired.

- Strong writing skills for creating configuration management documentation coupled with project management and organizational skills.

- Experience in operating system platforms including Windows Server 2008/2012, Windows 7/8.

- Exposure to remote methodologies including RDP & LOGMEIN.

- Self-directed worker who takes direct responsibility for on-time task completion in a flexible, collaborative and creative work environment.

- Strong communication and information technology skills, excel at attention to detail, ability to solve problems of moderate scope and complexity and a broad knowledge of the information systems process flow and architecture.

- Ability to understand technical content and communicate well with subject matter experts.

- Experience managing a configuration management team in an Agile/Scrum environment, a plus.

- Understanding of the GAC, .Net Assemblies, Web Services, Windows Services, WCF, IIS, C#, XML, Must include C#, .Net, Expertise in using .NET 4.51/4.5/4.0, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, WCF Web services, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012, ADO.NET, Visual Studio 2010 & 2012, XML, HTML, DHTML, Java Script, jQuery, JSON, XSLT, AJAX, IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0, UML, Visio, Reporting Services and SQL programming skills.

- Experience in configuring WCF web service in .Net.

- Understanding of n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, and Data Access Layer).

- Experience in 24x7 post production support.