Lead DevOps Engineer

N-iX is a global company with Ukrainian roots that helps businesses across the world develop successful software products. Founded in 2002, N-iX has come a long way and increased its presence in eight countries spanning Europe, the US, and Latin America, India. Today, we are a strong community of 2,000+ professionals and a reliable partner for global industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies.
We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer who will be a part of a recognized CI/CD platform company that can be used to implement DevOps practices. 

Responsibilities:

• Assist design and implement orchestration tools, deployment pipelines, and foundational infrastructure platforms to support our internal development as well as our sizable base of customers.
• Good knowledge of Azure PaaS services and know how to leverage them for cloud solutions
• Strong skills in Azure networking, such as configuring virtual networks, firewalls, load balancers, and VPNs.
• Experience in migrating and transforming existing systems to the cloud using Azure tools and best practices.
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps or GitHub and know how to use them for continuous integration, continuous delivery, pipelines, and Git version control.
• Experience in using Infrastructure as Code (ARM/Bicep) and Git source control to provision and deploy cloud resources
• Automation scripting skills with PowerShell and Azure CLI
• Work with InnoDB buffer pools, binlog, statement based replication vs row based, collation, etc.
• Contribute to setting up the CI / CD pipelines using microservice methodology.
• Enhance overall platform security by using modern tools to design, test, and improve existing products, and implementing security-focused solutions to new problems.
• Author and maintain tools that reliably manage infrastructure, specifically in the areas of: Environment/Application build out, maintenance and audit, System and network monitoring, Configuration management
• Support development, release and production of our applications 
• Assist troubleshoot and solve technology problems in production and development environments 
• Handle day-to-day tasks and other routine maintenance as required including Quality Assurance processes (DRP, Backups, security restrictions) 

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or MS in Engineering or equivalent
• Solid Experience (10+) in Cloud based DevOps process
• Solid experience in Azure, MySQL and/or one of the other databases
• Experience with REST APIs, NodeJS, Knowledge of Terraform for cross-platform cloud provisioning is preferred. 
• Specialization in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for container orchestration is nice to have. 
• Understanding of networking (Routing/Switching, VLANs, Firewalls, and Load Balancers)
• Knowledge in a high-level language such as Go, Python and/or Java