Trad Analytics Model Development Senior (devops Engineer, Capital Markets)

Platform Engineer

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it's at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview: Are you a platform engineer with extensive Unix administration acumen? Do you know what the correct technical infrastructure is for a high velocity agile and business focused organization? Have you successfully delivered the right foundation and platform that software development community thrives on? Do you have hands on experience with Ansible, Docker and Bash scripting? If you've designed, provisioned, and managed run-time platforms, or fully automated continuous integration and deployment solutions then we have a destination for you: The DevOps team within the Capital Markets division of Freddie Mac.

Your Responsibilities

• Support the platform environment of nimble development methodology (NDM)
• Sustain the software deployment automation solutions, especially associated with nimble trains and software promotions through the nimble CI/CD pipeline
• Automate provisioning of computing, network, and storage resources in the environment
• Implement inventory management for the NDM environment
• Define, implement and facilitate interface solutions with enterprise service management systems
• Collaborate with divisional software developers to maximize developer productivity via NDM
• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in deployment for the developer community
• Take ownership of addressing security vulnerabilities in control room housing the entire nimble toolset
• Play an active role in the organization path to green
• Maintain production environment's integrity embracing the extended support model

Our Impact

Our Capital Markets division's well-established DevOps team is managing, operating, and extending its Agile (Nimble Development Methodology, aka "Nimble") based platform for software developments. The Nimble DevOps:

• 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

Your Impact

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. Our ideal candidate also 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

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.

Qualifications

5yrs+ experience of Unix Administration

5yrs experience of supporting 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 5+ years of hands-on experience)

Knowledge of Application Software deployment and orchestration techniques (yum)

5yrs+ of Java application deployments and Java resource management

Keys To Success In This Role

Unix administrator with software developer's acumen and drive to deliver automated solutions

Intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility

Facilitate complete solutions meeting software developer, infrastructure and DevOps teams' needs

Develop fully automatic and lights-out implementations

Strong consultation and communications skills

Curiosity to learn and instill new paradigms in others