DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Reports Directly To: Senior QA/DevOps Manager

Location: Remote / Hybrid

Duration: Full Time

Job Summary: As a company that is rapidly expanding, we are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team and drive the implementation of applications and services. We are a Health Information Exchange that takes data provided by our participants and in turn makes that data available at the Point of Care to facilitate better health outcomes. Our DevOps team works very closely with Engineering, App Support, and Infrastructure teams to securely design, build, test and deploy a highly scalable environment in our Azure Cloud. Our teams currently use the Azure DevOps and Portal Platforms, Azure Pipelines, Terraform, and several native Azure services to help deliver our applications and services to be used directly at the Point of Care. The ideal candidate will bring several years of experience in a DevOps role on the Azure platform. The candidate will be tasked with learning the environment, understanding the existing DevOps processes, and providing direction on furthering DevOps capabilities. The candidate will be instrumental in ensuring our API endpoints, applications, and architecture are secured, available, and performant.

Job Duties

Hands-on development experience in writing code and building pipelines from scratch

Ability to write Terraform to create and configure Azure Portal Resources

Ability to write Azure DevOps YAML to build pipelines for end-to-end deployments

Experience with Scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Azure CLI) to configure agents, settings and facilitate deployments solutions

Experience in working with version control systems like Git and source control management tools in GitHub

Experience in creating SQL Database, compiling SQL Scripts, and configuring permissions

Strong understanding of managing and updating certificates and SSL set up for Apps in Azure

Serve as Tier 2-3 escalation between the Application Support and the Engineering teams

Perform staging and production deployments and perform smoke tests as necessary

Participate in the technical design of new systems and architectures to ensure scalability, security, and availability and that resources are following best practices in Azure Portal

Establish policies and procedures for deploying code developed by our external vendor partners

Initiates and produces technology documentation and standard operating procedures

Provide expertise in security, networking, and Azure cloud to improve deployed environments

Guide the team on best practices, patterns, and vision for the application and automation infrastructure

Further enhance client maturity and efficiency in building CICD pipelines and orchestration

Work closely with developers to ensure that operations policies and efforts are aligned with design/development process

Participate in the technical design of new systems and architectures to ensure scalability, security, and availability

Establish policies and procedures for deploying code developed by our external vendor partners

Initiates and produces technology documentation and standard operating procedures

Serve as Tier 3 escalation between the Application Support team and the Engineering team

Utilize deployment documentation to perform successful UAT and Production deployments

Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues

Qualifications and Experience

Familiarity with publishing and deploying ASP.NET Core

Hands on experience building and maintaining pipelines as code

Hands on experience leveraging PowerShell and Azure CLI to automate deployment processes

Hands on experience with using GitHub as a source control system to manage versioning of IaC

Experience with Azure DevOps, Terraform, and the Azure cloud

3+ years of software engineering and DevOps experience

Experience configuring Azure services (Azure App Services, Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure API Management, Azure Key Vault, Azure AD, etc.)