Configuration Management Analyst, Senior

The Configuration Management Analyst is responsible for providing configuration management process

The Configuration Management Analyst is responsible for providing configuration management process support and maintaining the infrastructure and tools to enable rapid development and release for all Dayforce software solutions. The CM Analyst will collaborate with Development, Support, and
Operations throughout the software product lifecycle to ensure high quality deliverables.
The Dayforce Release and Configuration Management (RCM) team supports the Dayforce product and development teams as they build, test, and deploy software, both monolithic and microservices based software. The RCM team does that by defining, managing, monitoring, and reporting on all
development/QA environments, software branches, builds, and deployments.

Responsibilities:
• Work with all product teams to deliver quality products on time
• Take ownership of the integrity of source control and build environments
• Maintain and improve the process for releasing builds into QA
• Maintain and improve the process for releasing software to customers including patches and
maintenance releases
• Manage release and development branches, including tagging and merges, and apply best practices
• Maintain and support Development and QA infrastructure deployments
• Improve build configuration and automation to efficiently manage the release of code
• Actively participate in continuous quality improvements in all processes

Qualifications:
• University degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with the software development life cycle
• Experience working with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Puppet)
• Experience with build automation tools (e.g. MS Build, PowerShell, Jenkins)
• Experience working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience with source control management practices and advanced branching techniques (e.g. Git,
GitHub, TFVC, BitBucket)
• Experience administering application lifecycle management tools (e.g. TFS/VSTS/Azure DevOps, Jira)
• Proficiency with SQL and an understanding of relational database systems
• Experience in defining and improving software build, deployment, and release processes
• Experience working in .NET application development
• Experience working in Microsoft Azure
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work in a team environment with minimal supervision
• Experience working in an Agile development environment