12 Month Contract

W2 Employee Only- NO CORP to CORP

Must be a Texas resident

It is expected that this individual will be onsite in Taylor Texas a minimum of 2 days per week or more based on business needs

Starting range $66+/hr, DOE

Responsibilities:

Provides support, oversight, administration, and facilitation of changes that affect ERCOT facilities, infrastructure, hardware, operating systems, database platforms, firmware, network, and software environments for 24/7 IT Operations. Ensure audit tracking, reliability, availability, correct functionality, system integrity, and risk mitigation in ERCOT’s IT Service Delivery model by coordinating, communicating, and recording changes to ERCOT’s non-development environments. [Coordinates & facilitates all ERCOT Software, Hardware, and Infrastructure code and configuration changes.]

Essential Job Duties:

Organize and facilitate effective release planning meetings.

Managing release schedules, and/or key infrastructure initiatives across multiple applications.

Planning, managing, and executing release cycles, including tracking release deliverables, functional/security test sign-offs, and leading release efforts for non-prod and prod deployments.

Prepare release plans for various applications, track and maintain them.

Review release plans, change requests in release pipelines

Coordinate release builds to the appropriate environments (Testing, Production, etc.)

Perform data analysis using SQL for generating release metrics and scorecards

Assist the team in establishing a consistent and predictable release cadence

Standardization of release process across IT applications by working with various stakeholders

Cross functional dependency management mapping for various releases and maintenance of the same

Collaborate with release leads/managers to deliver a comprehensive plan and ensure delivery excellence across the application portfolio.

Flexibility to work outside of business hours as needed to support release deployments.

Providing support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB) as needed

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related field or six years applicable experience is required.

ITIL V4 certification (Preferred)

Work Experience:

Minimum 3 years experience in IT Change and Release Management

Minimum of five (5) years (in excess of degree requirements stated above) of progressively responsible experience in system integration processes

Understanding of ITIL Best Practices in IT Service Management (Change/Release/Incident/Problem) Management

Working knowledge with tools like Jira, Confluence, Service Now

Cloud infrastructure knowledge/experience is a plus

SQL/VB Scripting/Data Analysis knowledge is a plus

Preston-Hunter, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Preston-Hunter, Inc. is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Preston-Hunter, Inc. are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, qualified disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can contact Human Resources at the location(s) where you are applying. Preston-Hunter, Inc. will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. In the event you feel you have been harassed or discriminated against, immediately report the issue to Preston-Hunter, Inc. Human Resources. Preston-Hunter, Inc. encourages applicants of all ages, except for minors as federal law prohibits.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document, I-9 Form, upon hire. Preston-Hunter, Inc. participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Preston-Hunter, Inc. is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before Preston-Hunter, Inc. can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Preston-Hunter, Inc. can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

At this time, Preston-Hunter, Inc. does not sponsor work Visa’s, and all candidates must be eligible to be a W-2 employee working through Preston-Hunter, Inc. All offers of employment, if any, are conditioned on the provision of satisfactory proof of the individual’s right to work in the United States, as required by law.