Azure DevOps Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop deployment automation to provide a fully functional cloud stack in Microsoft Azure that supports new and existing environments.
• Build, migrate and test Microsoft Azure environments and integrations.
• Integration with on-premises applications, cloud providers or other platforms.
• Develop templates or scripts to automate everyday infrastructure, development, deployment, or operations functions.
• Develops automated release tools meant to allow continuous build and release processes.
• Monitor the performance of systems in a cloud based computing environment, including overall system health, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Able to identify bottlenecks and scale up/down resources to meet demands and expectations.
• Incorporate security products and processes into existing and new systems and infrastructure.
• Bake operational and security controls into engineering and DevOps pipelines (e.g., build automation and configuration management).
• Setup multi-level network environments using Microsoft Azure.
• Provision cloud resources to support existing and new applications.
• Develop operational best practices to control cloud usage costs.
• Build and maintain scalable and performant production infrastructure, improving and ensuring reliability across systems.
• Assist IT, Development, and Data teams with Cloud management tasks.
• Absorb production support teams with troubleshooting anomalies.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure issues.
• Plan and prioritize activities.
• Work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Report activities and progress to the management on a weekly basis.
• Perform tasks as required by management.
• Provide support after hours and on weekends, when necessary.

Qualifications

• 1-3+ years of hands-on experience with Azure Infrastructure and development solutions.
• 1-3+ years of experience in designing DevOps pipelines, installations, configurations, automations and monitoring of various cloud services including: (laaS, PaaS, and SaaS).
• Experience in implementing Full lifecycle DevOps automation including Configurations management, Build Automation, Release Management, Development Automation and Infrastructure management.
• Solid experience with DevOps implementations, migrations and upgrades within the Microsoft Cloud Azure solution suite.
• Deep understanding of Cloud Azure Kubernetes Service with container-based development skills, Experience with container management tools like Docker, ACS, Kubernetes, AKS, and GKE.
• Experience with DevOps CI/CD tools and concepts – Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Chef, Ansible, Azure DevOps and staged integrations etc.
• Experience with scripting languages – PowerShell, Groovy, Javascript, Python, and Golang.
• Understanding of microservices, containerization, and other app modernization strategies.
• Understanding of APIs, SDKs, and other integration methods.
• Familiar with Network Infrastructure and Security. Knowledge of IP networking, private tunnel, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewall.
• Familiar with Windows and Linux.
• Experience with Amazon AWS and/or Google Cloud is a plus.
• Experience implementing CI/CD for Dynamics 365 using Azure DevOps is a plus.
• Experience with SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS and Transact SQL is a plus.