Azure DevOps Engineer

This is a Contract position. Remote for now but is expected to go onsite from January 2022. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Are you the next Azure DevOps Engineer we are looking for? You will be responsible for collaborating with internal stakeholders, including software development teams and other information technology resources to support business processes/ production systems and provide operational efficiency using industry-standard technologies. You will work collaboratively with IT and software engineering teams to deploy and operate our systems/platforms and support client utilization. This will include helping to automate and streamline our operations and processes and building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations. You will troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments. In this role you'll: Provide operational support for the Cloud environment (specifically Azure) , with a special focus on Network Architecture and support but with cross-training for storage, compute, Operating systems (Windows, Red Hat), and application services Recommend, develop and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, configuration management, and security Provide support for incidents and end-user requests for services. Responsible for analyzing network and system performance and evaluating new tools and systems Generate detailed technical notes and propagate the internal knowledge-base with information, including developing notes and operating procedures for activities including system monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, server architecture design, and system maintenance Test new releases to ensure compatibility to minimize impact and downtime Manage and enhance build and continuous integration infrastructure; support infrastructure for development teams and enhance tools for development workflows Advanced ability to craft clear and concise documentation Basic Qualifications / Skills: Education: 4-year University degree in Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience. Minimum 2-5 years of work experience in customer success, resident engineer, network engineer, or similar roles Solid understanding of Networking, Routing, BGP, IPSec VPN, vLAN/vNET, Virtualization, Linux, and infrastructure software Experience in configuring, testing, and troubleshooting various networking products/solutions (e.g PaloAlto Firewalls, CISCO ASA, Juniper Routing/switching, and Arista for switching. Ability to multi-task and work in a dynamic environment Availability to provide after-hours support on a scheduled/non-scheduled basis Experience in microservices and containerizes technologies (DOCKER, Kubernetes etc) and their deployment is a benefit Python, Ansible, Terraform, ASR Automation #J-18808-Ljbffr