56271: Columbus, OH – IT – DPS – Senior Business Subject Matter Expert 1/SME1

Job Classification: DevOps Consultant ( SME1)
Role, Start/End Date:   One (1) Subject Matter Expert (SME1) with expertise in DevOps transformation. September 1, 2015– June 30, 2019 (1850 hours)
Rate: $108.99 X 1850 hours in FY19 ($201,631.50)
Will close to submissions: Friday 9/28/2018 at 10:00am EST
Interviews: Onsite interviews are required.
Requirement Description:

• Work with and advise the Dept. of Public Safety (ODPS) IT DevOps coach on cultural and technical challenges to:
• Deliver proven training programs to explain and instill DevOps values including those as detailed by CALMS, Agile and Lean.
• Seek and tactfully challenge team members who actively or passively stand against the core values of DevOps or DPS’ IT DevOps transformation mission.
• Seek and address organizational and team-level challenges with management.
• Drive automation in pursuit of predictability, supportability, security and time to innovate.
• Drive and assist with discovering, comparing and building DevOps tooling for SDLC and infrastructure provisioning.
• Conduct process re-engineering workshops and projects to identify areas of improvement pertaining to the SDLC by leveraging continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, TDD/unit testing, integration testing, UI testing, DB standards testing and security testing.
Requirement Description:

During the interview process with the ODPS staff, the resource consultant must demonstrate competence and experience in their ability to transform IT organizations from traditional siloed, non-collaborative and stagnant to DevOps with collaboration and automation. The resource’s experience must also be documented for review and verification. Offered resources not showing technical or functional competence and experience will be sufficient reason to reject the Offeror’s proposal. It is the responsibility of the Offeror to pre-screen their candidates to ensure compliance.

The ODPS has estimated that it will require one (1) full-time resource to provide up to two thousand (2000) hours for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) with potential to remain with ODPS for up to another year, two thousand (2000) hours in Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20).
Additional Requirements:

• Progressive enthusiasm toward DevOps transformation.
• Progressive coaching and mentoring mindset.
• Progressive collaborative work ethic.
• Progressive continuous learning and improvement mindset.
• Self-motivated.
• Results-driven.
• Excellent English language communication (oral and written) skills.
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Excellent collaboration skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent relationship building and maintenance skills.
• Excellent meeting and work session facilitation skills and experience.
• Excellent influence and negotiation skills and experience.
• Excellent conflict management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent project planning skills.
• Excellent decision-making skills.
• Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize efforts and adjust situationally.
• Ability to drive toward clarity out of ambiguity.
• Extensive knowledge of DevOps tooling.
 Mandatory Requirements/Time:

• 3 years progressive hands-on designing, implementing and supporting DevOps process and tooling to support continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, continuous testing (unit, integration, coded UI, security, etc), continuous monitoring, continuous feedback, automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management (network, server, OS, application, service, etc).
• 3 years progressive DevOps transformation coaching.
• 2 years hands-on public cloud infrastructure design, provisioning and monitoring.
• TDD (test drive development) concepts.
• Agile concepts and practices.
• Lean concepts and practices.
• Business process re-engineering.
Preferred:

• DevOps certification(s).
• Agile certification.
• Lean certification.
• BS degree in computer science or similar area.

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