Senior Operations Engineer in Herzogenaurach bei Adidas

Senior Operations Engineer (m/f/d) in Herzogenaurach bei Adidas

Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The aim of the role is to work as part of a team to provide 24/7/365 operational

support, incident management and stakeholder communication for the systems used to

produce, publish, and serve content for a range of adidas platforms and services (possibly

including mobile, tablet, desktop, and IPTV).

Key Responsibilities:

Specialist advice

Actively maintains recognized expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s).
Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organizational objectives.
Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organization.

Business analysis

Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

Testing

Accepts responsibility for creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications (such as reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability, and portability).
Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements.
Produces test scripts, materials, and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services.
Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources, and tools.
Interprets, executes, and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards.
Records and analyses actions and results and maintains a defect register.
Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary.
Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project.
Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases.
Provides specialist advice to support others.

Systems integration and build

Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing.
Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
Defines complex/new integration builds.
Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
Designs, performs, and reports results of tests of the integration build.
Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.

Porting/software configuration

Configures software and equipment and tests platform-specific versions of one or more software products.
Reports the outcome of testing and identifies potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs and standards.

Configuration management

Proposes and agrees the configuration items (CIs) to be uniquely identified with naming conventions.
Ensures that operational processes are in place to maintain secure configuration, consistent classification, and management of CIs, and for the verification and audit of configuration records.
Develops, configures, and maintains tools (including automation) to identify, track, log and maintain accurate, complete, and current information.

Reports on the status of configuration management. Identifies problems and issues and recommend corrective actions.

Release and deployment

Assesses and analyses release components. Provides input to scheduling.
Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods – manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management. Ensures release processes