Senior Software Engineer (Dallas)

Senior Software Automation Engineer

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it's at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview :

If you are inspired by the opportunity to automate enterprise-wide infrastructure administrative tasks that provide enhanced efficiency across the organization and transform manual, time-consuming processes into efficient automated solutions, the Service Automation Team may be the perfect team for you.

We're currently seeking a Senior Software Automation Engineer to help design, build, test, maintain, and document automation solutions that support and strengthen our organization. Ideal candidate will be passionate about learning new technologies and collaborating with teams to implement them.

Our Impact :

Freddie Mac's Service Management and Global Operations organization is focused on providing automated solutions to streamline the support and operations of its 1000+ applications across the entire firm. It is an exciting time to be a part of Freddie Mac! We are searching for a highly innovative Senior Developer to join our team. Interested in learning more? Read on!

You will be a mentor to team members, driving full adoption of modern software engineering and delivery practices (Agile, BDD, Stateless Design, Microservices, Containerization, etc.).

Your Impact :

Writing well designed, testable, and efficient code by using best software development practices.

Develop automation scripts using Ansible and / or Python to streamline provisioning, configuration, and monitoring tasks.

Enhancing current automations, controls and development processes.

Automating testing and validation of various tech stacks.

Integrating data from various back-end services and databases.

Documenting Requirements, Architecture, & Design for the various applications.

Documenting and working with end users to perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Working with Change Management and Deployment teams to promote changes into production environment.

Automating the Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) process for our Applications.

Develop automated testing for our Applications.

Qualifications :

Minimum of 5 -7 years of relevant IT experience.

Experienced in developing automation scripts using Ansible and / or Python to streamline provisioning, configuration, and monitoring tasks.

Proficiency in multiple programming languages (C#, Java, Python, YML, Perl, Shell scripting, Node.js, etc.)

Experience with build automation tools such as Jenkins and build pipelines.

API Development / Use.

SOAP / REST Web Services.

ServiceNow Development Experience.

SharePoint Development Experience.

Practical experience with a CMDB, ServiceNow, Control-M, Autosys, BladeLogic is a plus.

Understanding of ITIL Design, Transition, Operations, and Continual Service Improvement.

High Level Understanding of the following Infrastructure :

Middleware : Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, WebMethods.

Databases : Oracle, Sybase, DB2, UDB, MS SQL.

Physical & Virtual Servers.

DFS, NAS, SAN Storage.

AWS Architecture / Development Experience.

Web Development experience using HTML / CSS / SQL / JavaScript Frameworks (Angular, Bootstrap, JQuery).

Concepts of Cloud Services.

Keys to Success in this Role :

Excellent collaborator and partner.

Good communication skills. The incumbent will be responsible for interfacing and influencing with the business lines as well as others across IT.

Spirit for innovation and ability to work in the space of no longer and not yet.

Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.