Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in Azure DevOps, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code (IAC), and cloud-based application development. As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, efficient, and reliable DevOps processes and solutions to support our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement Azure DevOps solutions, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and client requirements.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud-based applications using Azure DevOps, Git, and other tools.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform, Ansible, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, or other tools to automate the provisioning and management of Azure resources.
• Configure and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and other container orchestration platforms for deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications.
• Monitor and manage the performance, availability, and security of Azure resources using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Security Center, and other tools.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and support to team members and clients.
• Develop and maintain documentation for Azure DevOps processes, best practices, and client solutions.
• Stay informed on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies within the Azure DevOps ecosystem.
• Implement DevOps technologies in customer environments to aid their teams in the overall business goals eliminating their technical challenges.
• Design, architect, and implement solutions using Azure DevOps tooling including boards, repositories, test plans, pipelines, and more to improve process and reduce manual effort required.
• Design, architect, and implement solutions for hosting applications on Azure leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy the required resources.
• Leverage Terraform, as the industry standard, for IaC deployments to define, create, and manage resources required to support applications or workloads.
• Design, architect, and implement solutions using Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes services.
• Create architectural diagrams, propose solutions, and implement Kubernetes for various workloads as required.
• Support existing clients with additional configuration, updates, and more to keep clusters running efficiently.
• Provide senior level mentorship to other engineers and clients providing documentation or training building a collaborative environment ensuring everyone is aware of emerging technologies or different ways of accomplishing the same task.

Skills Requested:

• Proficient in Git with the ability to explain the benefits and best practices for using a version control system to support application development and GitOps.
• Strong understanding of git operations and various workflows required to achieve CI/CD for applications.
• Senior level experience with Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform, Azure ARM templates. Other skills which would be considered include Bicep or CloudFormations.
• Senior level experience implementing Infrastructure as Code in environments and supporting production workloads using IaC.
• Senior Level Experience with Azure DevOps including setting up new organizations and extending functionality for existing users.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Boards, Repos, Test Plans, WiKi’s and Pipelines.
• Must possess the ability to explain the advantages of CI/CD to clients and implement working pipelines in client’s environment to support application development and IaC.
• Senior Level experience managing Kubernetes in production settings.
• Experience managing Azure Kubernetes Service is preferred.
• Must be able to setup new clusters for clients including the infrastructure configurations, sizing, additional tooling, Azure connections, and more.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or relevant experience
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, and cloud-based application development
• Expertise in Azure DevOps, Git, and CI/CD pipeline management
• Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform, Ansible, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, or other tools
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, and other container orchestration platforms
• Familiarity with monitoring and managing the performance, availability, and security of Azure resources
• Proficient in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences