Our History:
From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 150+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies, to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record.

Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project based work.

DevOps Architect 

Position Description

Seeking a DevOps Architect with significant Java expertise who will join a team focused on advancing development and operations. The team functions as a Development Practice that is responsible for providing standards and tools to developers and as a SWAT Team that is engaged for the resolution of highly-visible operational issues. Team members are expected to be subject matters experts who are hands-on, detail-oriented, and capable of mentoring others.

This position will involve defining and communicating standards for the following:

• Continuous integration
• Code quality analysis
• Code reviews
• JavaEE application server configuration
• Java / JavaEE coding
• Unit and integration testing
• Configuration management
• Use of 3^rd-party libraries and dependency management

Job Responsibilities

• Primary:
  • Communicate and collaborate with IT development teams to increase automation and code quality
  • Lead the creation of standards for Java-based applications and middleware
  • Ensure consistent application of standards throughout the enterprise to streamline development and maintenance
  • Provide design and implementation guidance and tutoring to developers on best practices, tools, and quality assurance
  • Resolve high-visibility application and middleware issues
  • Engineer the deployment and operation of continuous integration tools
  • Provide build environment that consistently builds, packages, reports on, and ensures the integrity of software products
  • Integrate automated builds and build artifacts into test environments, test harnesses, and code analysis tools
  • Stay abreast of the latest in development and build technologies
  • Support Client's DevOps initiatives
• Secondary:
  • Harvest and maintain reusable components
  • Provide guidance for development teams on modularizing applications into cohesive, reusable components
  • Participate in R&D activities
  • Collaborate in the selection of preferred technologies
  • Assist in enterprise architecture efforts
  • Collaborate in the development of applications with respect to testability, scalability, performance, security, and fault tolerance

Qualifications

• Required:
  • Strong grasp of automation tools
  • Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
  • Ability to code and script
  • Experience with systems and IT operations
  • Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
  • Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using JavaEE platforms
  • Profound insight of Java and JavaEE internals (classloading, memory management, transaction management, etc.)
  • Comfort with collaboration, open communication, and reaching across functional borders
  • Object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Preferred:
  • Excellent knowledge of relational databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
  • Experience in developing applications using at least one popular UI framework (Angular, Ember, Spring MVC)
  • Knowledge of virtualization technologies (Docker, AWS, VMware)
  • Experience with the Spring Framework
  • Experience with test-driven development