Sr Lead, Azure DevOps Engineer

This Sr level role will play a part of the Enterprise Architecture public cloud enablement DevOps team. We are focused heavily on IAC, platform automation and platform support. An ideal candidate will need to be able to develop, build, configure, deploy and support IT solutions for shared services/automation environments related to CI/CD, artifact management, automated testing and monitoring. They will also need to be able to develop and maintain DevOps roadmaps.

This role will require someone to provide server support during various operations such as deployment and general application operations. They will have to collaborate with developers to establish and ensure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices and supportability. You will provide support/resolution of cloud vulnerabilities and audit items as well as leverage the right tools to address the gaps and build IT architecture capabilities while applying experience of DevOps/SRE's best practices to enable highly available and reliable systems and processes.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience engineering, deploying, and managing pipelines in an enterprise scale environment utilizing Jenkins, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, or any other build automation tool.
• Experience with the commonly used managed services in cloud-native environments (GCP, AWS, Azure) with a working knowledge of their CLIs.
• Proficient with scripting and IaC languages to automate tasks/services (e.g. Bash, Python, Groovy, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, etc.).
• Familiarity with the Hashicorp Suite (vault, packer, consul) of products is a plus
• Experience setting up the infrastructure, processes, and tools for container-based development and deployment (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Tiller).
• Skilled using messaging queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Pub/Sub, etc.
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, VPCs, DNS, load balancers, security groups, and firewalls.
• Incorporate security tools, scans, and quality gates into the pipelines to adhere to regulatory requirements
• Experience using application and network diagnostic and monitoring tools to understand the existing application and network workloads
• Experience with source control tooling, such as TFS or GIT, in a team environment.
• Experience with cloud automation/provisioning and configuration management tools using Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Docker or Salt and experience with Containerization Tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in planning, creating, implementing and maintaining a scale-able software development infrastructure
• Experience in Development, Build, and CICD tools such as Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Artifcatory and CircleCI
• Experience with Cloud Provider Services such as AWS, GCP, Azure or PCF
• Experience with development languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, PHP, or .Net
• Willing to work on multiple projects at a time
• Make the experience of developing, testing, and deploying code fast, easy, and fun!

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in MIS, CIS, CS or equivalent related experience.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience working with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), infrastructure and IaC tools working with Agile/DevOps development teams
• Expert Knowledge of the DevOps culture, principles and DevOps frameworks.
• An Agile mindset with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Desired Skills:

• AI or Machine Learning playground work
• Driven to achieve a high level of client and customer satisfaction
• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team as a technical SME.
• Passion for delivering high-quality technical solutions
• Strong crisis management skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills including presentation skills with both technical and non-technical audiences