Company Description 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. Job Description • 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 Qualifications • 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 Additional Information • 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