Azure Devops Engineer

Azure Devops EngineerIssaquah, WA (Complete Onsite) 4-6 Months+ Rates - 68/hr on c2c or 56/hr on w2 UST Global (Retail client)Responsibilities:Configures and maintains on-premises and Azure cloud infrastructure to ensure availability, performance, scalability and security of development, testing and production environments, relying on automated scripts and configuration management tools.Demonstrates expertise in the deployment of integrated or standalone releases across multiple interconnected and disperse applications.Uses industry standard tools to improve and speed up delivery of our products and services.Provides fast and thoughtful issue resolution by executing quick fixes or proactively identifying and solving problems related to builds in production environments.Configures and automates development and test environment, deployment, automation and support test data management.Establishes workflows that use the automated pipelines for CI and CD.Develops tool integrations that allow for end to end traceability for application development (from requirements to code objects changed to meet the requirements).Manages source code repositories, merging, branching, resolving conflicts, defining and documenting procedures and best practices.Develops, maintains, and automates application deployments to various non-production and production environments.Develops, maintains, and automates infrastructure provisioning and configurations.Maintains CI/CD development, supports, troubleshooting on all aspects of Compute, Storage, and Network.Requirements:Must-Have: 5+ years' experience with Automation and Orchestration tooling/technology (Azure DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, etc.).Excellent Knowledge in Azure DevOps.Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.Experience using, managing and provisioning Azure Services.Experience with multiple coding languages (Python, Spark, Scala, R, Java, C#, etc.).Experience with APIs & Webservices.Advanced knowledge with Azure Portal and Azure DevOps.Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure AD, Azure App Service, Azure Application Gateway, Azure VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall, Azure Front Door.Working knowledge with LAN, WAN, DNS, routing, Firewall, networking, load balancer, system monitoring.Knowledge of Information Security best practices & principles (certificates, encryption, etc.).Hands-on experience with Terraform, Azure Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, and other DevOps components.Strong scripting skills (Powershell, Bash, Python etc.).Working Knowledge of XML, JSON, and Terraform.Knowledge of Agile Methodologies.Azure certification would be an added advantage.