Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

The Senior Azure DevOps Engineer is a hands-on technician that will be mostly responsible for administering the CI tool "Azure DevOps". A key focus of this role is providing solutions that are robust, scalable, and highly available. They want to move their repos from their old tool to the environment using their new Azure DevOps CI tool. This person will be handling issues and breaks with the environment. They need someone who not only knows how to use “Azure DevOps” (the tool) but someone who understands everything behind it, how it works, and then administering it when needed. The Senior Engineer, DevOps is passionate about learning and enjoys a deep dive into complex problems and technologies.

Job Functions:

• Configure cloud services, cloud native container orchestration platforms for high-traffic applications.
• Collaborate with technical teams and cloud vendors to define best practice adoption of cloud technology and deliver best of breed solutions.
• Automate application delivery pipelines for containerized and legacy applications running in the cloud and on-premise.
• Provision, configure and maintain infrastructure for multiple production and test environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively reduce MTTR or production incidents through automated healing mechanisms and curating health indicators.
• Troubleshoot issues in real time as part of incident response.

Skills:

• 7+ years of overall experience in system operations, software development or both plus 3+ years of experience in design, provisioning and automation of distributed infrastructure/applications in cloud and on-premise environments.
• Strong experience deploying and managing applications to public cloud systems i.e. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong practical Windows and Linux-based systems administration skills in a cloud or virtualized environment.
• Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure.
• Prior success in automating a real-world production environment.
• Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments.
• Strong ASP.NET, JavaScript and C# programming skills.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments with many nodes.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with products like TeamCity/Octopus, Jenkins, Bamboo.
• Strong scripting skills, i.e., PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewall.
• Familiarity with any monitoring tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Nagios, New Relic.
• Experience with revision control source code repositories like Git, TFS, SVN, Mercurial.
• Experience with automated testing tools (ie. Selenium, JMeter).
• Understanding and experience with code deployment (tagging).
• Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA and REST).

Required Skills: Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: Background Check: Yes

Notes: For this role you really just need to focus on finding someone who has high-level experience with the CI tool "Azure DevOps" and being able to administer it. This position is 100% remote and exclusive with client! This position is budgeted for an ongoing contract (doesn't end).