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Railroad Commission of Texas · 12 hours ago

RRC - Programmer IV

RRC Headquarters1701 N Congress Avenue

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

The Railroad Commission of Texas is a state agency with primary regulatory jurisdiction over the oil and natural gas industry. They are seeking a Programmer IV to perform complex project and operational actions and work coordination for the Mainframe Transformation section of the Information Technology Services Division.

GovernmentOil and GasRailroad

Work & Life Balance

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, author, and refactor multi-stage YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps (build/test/scan/package/deploy), including variable groups, templates, service connections, approvals/gates, and environment-specific substitutions

Modify and standardize existing pipelines; create reusable YAML templates and task modules to enforce CI/CD best practices

Provision and configure Azure environments (resource groups, App Service/slots, Functions, Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault, Application Insights, Log Analytics) using Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform/ARM)

Document environments, pipelines, and procedures (runbooks, deployment guides, diagrams) in SharePoint/Confluence; participate in change/incident/problem management; conduct knowledge transfer and training

Collaborate with developers and operations on capacity, performance, and cost optimization (FinOps); leverage caching, parallelization, and self hosted agents to improve throughput

Support database DevOps for SQL Server/Oracle (DACPAC/BACPAC, migration scripts, drift detection) with pre/post deployment validation and safe rollout

Deliver observability for releases: configure Application Insights/Monitor and Log Analytics; create dashboards and alerts for deployment health, latency, error budgets, and SLIs/SLOs

Integrate quality and security checks (unit/integration tests, code coverage, SAST/DAST/SCA, container scanning) into pipelines; enforce branch policies and PR validation

Troubleshoot build and release failures end to end (agent pools, task versions, service connections/RBAC, Key Vault access, configuration drift, YAML syntax) and drive durable corrective actions with runbooks

Define and operate environment strategies (Dev/Test/QA/Stage/Prod), deployment rings, and promotion workflows; implement blue/green and canary deployments with rollback

Implement secure secrets and identity patterns (Azure Key Vault, managed identities, RBAC) and maintain service principals, approvals, and release gates

Qualification

Azure DevOpsInfrastructure as CodeYAML pipelinesSQL ServerBicepTerraformPowerShellGitApplication InsightsProblem solvingCritical thinkingTeamworkCommunication

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field

Five (5) or more years in DevOps/Build & Release engineering within enterprise environments, including production support

Five (5) or more years building and operating Azure DevOps YAML pipelines (Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts) with variable groups and service connections

Three (3) or more years implementing Infrastructure as Code on Azure with Bicep, ARM templates, and/or Terraform

Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve pipeline and deployment issues quickly (RBAC, secrets, agent, task, or configuration failures)

Experience integrating automated tests and security scanning (e.g., MSTest/xUnit, SonarQube, Microsoft Defender for DevOps, or equivalent)

Proficiency with Git (trunk based or GitFlow), PowerShell and/or Bash for automation, diagnostics, and environment configuration

Hands on experience with Azure services: App Service (slots), Functions, Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault, Application Insights/Monitor, Log Analytics

Proven ability to work independently on technical tasks from design to delivery, with minimal oversight

Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and integration patterns

Hands-on experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and Azure DevOps for source control, pipelines, and deployments

Preferred

Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university, preferably with major coursework in information systems, computer science, data processing, communications, business, or a related field

At least eight (8) years of hands-on web development or closely related experience

At least four (4) years of hands-on experience in production support, bug fixes, root cause analysis and handling high priority production support tickets

At least six (6) years of experience using one or more of .NET Core, JSON, XML, Docker, iText, GoAnyWhere, Azure, SQL Server, Mulesoft, Informatica, and other RRC approved and cloud friendly/native technologies/tools to design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and repair enterprise-class applications

At least four (4) years of experience performing analysis and maintenance of customer critical .NET based applications in a high-visibility production environment

At least two (2) years of experience in developing, enhancing, maintaining applications in Azure, Amazon and/or Google cloud platforms

At least two (2) years of experience developing, enhancing, maintaining application user experiences using iText, GoAnyWhere, HTML5, CSS3, Angular, React, and similar technologies

At least one (1) year of experience in data focused projects, like moving from Legacy to newer systems

At least one (1) year of experience in projects using Informatica (on-prem or cloud) or Mulesoft ESB to move data

At least one (1) year of experience in Data Warehouse projects

Experience in working in fast-paced and ever-changing environments; establishing project's goals and objectives; exercising sound judgment in making critical decisions; analyzing complex information and developing plans to address technical issues

Experience with the RBDMS platform

Total years of experience may run concurrently

Experience and education may be substituted on a year for year basis