Puppet Resource / Application Support

DIRECTV is one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services delivering a premium video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched programming, and industry leading customer service to more than 32 million customers in the U.S. and Latin America.

• Assisting in automation and orchestration of application deployments for multiple development and application support teams
• Develop reusable puppet code for installation and configuration of common application components
  
• Support and maintain the department’s Puppet Enterprise environment
  
• Provide training and on boarding of developers and application support teams into the cloud environment
  
• Mentor teams in the development and use of Puppet modules for application automation
  
• Implementation of configuration changes, as well as backing out an unsuccessful change.
  
• Document and maintain knowledge of supported applications and platforms
  

• 1+ years of working experience with Puppet for configuration management and automation
• 3+ years of system administration experience with either RedHat Linux or Windows Server operating systems
  
• Proficiency with use of source code management and software development workflow using Git
  
• Have a thorough understanding of SDLC best practices including CI/CD
  
• Demonstrated leadership capability; able to help guide, motivate and collaborate across IT operations, development and architecture teams
  
• Scripting or programming proficiency (Ruby, bash, PowerShell, etc.)
  
• Experience working in an environment with automated deployments and automated testing
  
• Experience in advanced application configuration, troubleshooting and performance tuning
  

• Experience extending Puppet with Ruby (Custom types and providers, custom functions, etc)
• Familiarity with application architecture and deployments in cloud environments (Microservices, service discovery, A/B code deployments, etc)
  
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare, OpenStack, AWS
  
• Experience with Java containers (Weblogic, Tomcat, Jboss, etc)
  
• Experience with webservers (Apache, IIS, nginx, hapxory, etc)
  
• Experience with .NET application stack
  
• RedHat or Microsoft certification
  
• BS degree and/or the equivalent in training and experience preferred
  
• Experience with using and maintaining Atlassian suite of products (Stash, Jira, Hipchat, etc)
  
• Load balancing concepts, features and applicability to application/service deployments
  
• 5+ years of relevant work experience developing services, automation tools/scripts
  
• Knowledge of SQL and NOSQL databases
  
• Experience with software packaging (e.g. RPM, MSI, etc.) and software distribution
  
• Take ownership of assigned tasks and drive to completion; provide status and follow-up as needed
  
• Excellent personal and communication skills.
  
• Highly tuned problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience porting puppet code to future parser