Senior Automation Engineer (1428)- Springfield, Illinois, Hybrid

Senior Automation EngineerProject Summary & OverviewWe seek a Senior Automation Engineer to participate in our Product Management Transformation project, which will transform how our team delivers ongoing technical support, services, and capabilities to our customers. As our Senior Automation Engineer, you will help implement a new CI/CD and ADO process that will serve as a model across the organization. You will call upon your knowledge and experience of Agile and SCRUM Methodology, Azure DevOps (ADO), Source Control Branching, Jira, and Jira integration with ADO daily. Job Responsibilities:

• Define and implement strategies for continuous integration and release management for Services and Solutions.
• Drive the adoption of application deployment strategies.
• Support and improve tools for continuous integration, automated testing, and release management.
• Act as a technologist to guide development teams through continuous integration adoption and best DevOps practices.
• Create and manage pipelines for code generation, testing, and deployment.
• Work closely with developers and engineers to create end-to-end workflow automation.
• Support distributed software and controls, development teams, and environments.
• Optimize automated build systems.
• Manage build communication channels and document build procedures.
• Manage and maintain the version control system and all related development tools.
• Ensure implementation and enforcement of defined software configuration management practices.
• Define and ensure naming convention, library, and versioning consistency.

Required Skills:

• Five years or more of documented experience in a similar role with projects of similar size and scope. 
• Strong experience with Agile and SCRUM Methodology, Azure DevOps (ADO), Source Control Branching, Jira, and Jira integration with ADO
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in computer science or engineering or a technical degree with 6+ years of experience
• Solid understanding and practical experience of software development life cycles, with particular emphasis on build and release engineering functions
• Strong scripting/automation expertise (e.g. MS PowerShell)
• Strong understanding of operating systems, especially Windows and Linux preferred
• Experience with programming languages such as .Net /C# and C++ preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio and Azure DevOps
• Familiar with the principles of SDLC and methodologies like Agile/Scrum, CI, Good Documentation Practices, Refactoring and Testing Techniques
• Experience in the public sector, regulated industries, PII, Health, or Legal Data is highly desirable
• Self-awareness, integrity, authenticity, and a growth/entrepreneurial mindset

 
SALARY AND BENEFITS
The leadership of our Company believes in attracting and retaining exceptional talent committed to serving our clients. We offer a generous benefits package including health insurance, paid vacation, disability, and life insurance, and more. Please visit our Careers page for additional information. Salary and benefits information will be available to applicants, when and if an offer is made.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
The leadership of our Company is committed to a work culture of zealous advocacy, respect, diversity and inclusion, client-oriented defense, access to justice and excellent representation. We are dedicated to building a strong professional relationship with each of our clients, to understanding their diverse circumstances, and to meeting their needs. Our ability to achieve these goals depends on the efforts of all of us.
 
HOW TO APPLY
All applications must be completed online. We do not accept paper submissions. Please visit our Careers Page to review all current job postings, and instructions on the application process.
 
As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer, Cycurion, Inc. and our Subsidiaries prohibit discriminatory employment actions against and treatment of its employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived race or color, size (including bone structure, body size, height, shape, and weight), religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (one’s internal deeply-held sense of one’s gender which may be the same or different from one’s sex assigned at birth; one’s gender identity may be male, female, neither or both, e.g., non-binary), gender expression (the representation of gender as expressed through, for example, one’s name, choice of pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, or body characteristics; gender expression may not be distinctively male or female and may not conform to traditional gender-based stereotypes assigned to specific gender identities), disability, marital status, relationship and family structure (including domestic partnerships, polyamorous families and individuals, chosen family, platonic co-parents, and multigenerational families), genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, arrest or pre-employment conviction record, credit history, unemployment status, caregiver status, salary history, or any other characteristic protected by law.