DevOps Engineer

Position Summary

Team is creating a self-service platform that deploys cloud infrastructure for our business members. This will increase speed to market by helping value streams deliver solutions to the business through standardized offerings.

DevOps Engineers automate software builds, test and deploy systems, and build infrastructure as code. DevOps

Engineers manage various development, test, staging, and demo environments (code deployment using

Continuous Improvement (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines, backups, data refreshes), as well as deploy and

manage software into CLIENT's production environment, while leveraging as much automation as possible. They are responsible for continually advancing the technology in a collaborative and creative agile environment using many of the latest technologies and industry best practices and finding better and more efficient ways of delivering solutions that meet business objectives.

Job Duties/Essential Functions

Develops and operates end-to-end automated solutions for IT ops activities (including deployment, release

management, monitoring, etc.).

Collaborates with Operations, Development, and QA functions to develop solutions that are predisposed to

scalability and simplified maintenance.

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.

Creates, and manages Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Maintains, extends and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.

Demonstrates expertise in the deployment of integrated or standalone releases across multiple interconnected

and dispersed 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.

Creates the pipeline to periodically generate code quality metrics.

Drives each team to be self-sufficient by providing tools and training and brings different teams together to work towards common goals.

Coordinates resources across technology functions to stand up and monitor 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.

Works closely with product and application teams to create version control branching strategy.

Works cross-value streams with other DevOps Engineers to avoid and resolve merge conflicts.

Develops tool integrations that allow for end to end traceability for application development (from requirements to code objects changed to meet the requirements).

Required

8+ years' IT experience.

Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.

Tooling and Automation: Source, Build/Test/Scan, Artifacts, Deploy.

Environments, Lifecycles, Application Boundaries, and Release Orchestration.

Reusable Steps & Scripting.

Working experience with infrastructure as code driven through CI/CD pipelines.

Templating, Modularity, Idempotency and Reusability.

Provisioners vs. Configuration Management.

Experience Provisioning And Managing Azure Cloud Services With

Subscriptions, Policy Management, Resource Groups.

Networking, VNets, Private Endpoints.

Azure Active Directory & Azure RBAC.

Azure IaaS and PaaS.

Experience With The Following

Terraform HCL v0.13+, JSON.

Powershell v5+, Bash v4+.

Azure and Azure DevOps Programmability

Azure CLI & Terraform.

Azure DevOps.

Repositories, Repository Permissions and Branch Policies.

Pipelines & Variables.

Solid understanding of development/coding methodologies.

Excellent troubleshooting skills; and the ability to logically think through problem situations.

Solid understanding of application architecture, network technologies, application security, and infrastructure

architecture.

Must have high integrity, accountability, a positive attitude; and be willing to do what it takes to make the team

successful.

Team player; good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills as well as creative, likes challenges.

Recommended

Microsoft Azure certification(s) preferred.

Ability to automate software defined networking.

5+ years' experience deploying enterprise Azure cloud technologies.

8+ years' experience with enterprise infrastructure and software systems.

Knowledge of Agile Methodologies