Job Summary:
Freddie Mac is committed to making home possible for families across the country. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive Unix Administration skills to own and enhance their Nimble tool chain, supporting various development teams and ensuring efficient and agile delivery of software solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Owns releases and production integrity, enabling Capital Markets to manage Freddie Mac’s retained portfolio as well as debt funding, liquidity management, interest-rate hedging and securitization
• Provides a platform for the division’s software development community (300+ professionals), guaranteeing consistency between development, integration, pre-production and production environments
• Delivers automated tools and pipeline for continuous integration and development (CI/CD), meeting demanding and challenging business needs in a controlled yet efficient and timely manner
• You will own the entire Nimble tool chain.
• Through it, you support, directly and indirectly, various development teams to maximize Nimble’s value proposition.
• As the subject matter expert to the development community, you support providing a one-stop technical solution to anyone delivering products driven by business in a timely, efficient, and agile manner.
• You will thrive on developing, maintaining, and extending Nimble's automation fabric and enhancing tools for Project workflow, source code and artifacts management, development workflow, continuous build and integration, test automation, and continuous delivery and deployments.
• Collaborates with the internal community and empowers it to meet business needs economically and effectively — providing consultancy throughout the entire lifecycle, especially in: Application architecture and software containerization (Docker), Iterative and test-driven development, Continuous integration and deployment, Automated testing.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5yrs+ experience of Unix Administration
• 5yrs experience of engineering automated software delivery toolchains
• Clear understanding of security practices and identity management in SDLC tools
• 5yrs+ experience of hands-on experience with Docker
• 5yrs+ experience developing solutions and managing environments that automate software deployment and configuration
• 5yrs+ experience in infrastructure engineering for both non-production and production environments
• 10+ years of relevant professional work experience
• Expert in Operating System Platform Configuration: Linux platforms (Red Hat)
• Automated configuration management (Ansible is a must)
• Expert in High Availability techniques: Failover techniques and load balancing (hot-cold implementation is a must)
• Business continuity — wide area resiliency
• Expert in scripting languages: Bash (must have 10+ years of hands-on experience)
• Knowledge of Application Software deployment and orchestration techniques (yum)
• 5yrs+ of Java application deployments and Java resource management
• Python
• Groovy
Company:
Freddie Mac is a public government-sponsored enterprise that provides mortgage capital to lenders. Founded in 1970, the company is headquartered in Mclean, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.