Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Overview

Remote
On Site
Hybrid
BASED ON EXPERIENCE
Full Time
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 6+ mo(s)

Skills

IaaS
People management
Incident management
Project management
Cost-benefit analysis
Process optimization
Database architecture
Performance management
Computer science
Microsoft Azure
DevOps
Leadership
Continuous integration
Continuous delivery
Mentorship
Optimization
Management
Operations
Administration
Kubernetes
Automation
Cloud computing
Terraform
Ansible
Orchestration
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
SQL

Job Details

Our Client, is seeking a Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote
Position Type: Contract

Job Summary:

The Sr. DevOps Engineer will lead in architecting, engineering and operating production/development environments and Azure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, as well as mentoring staff, managing team workloads, tracking projects, and driving operational optimization initiatives. This role will be 80% technical hands-on engineering and 20% management and operations optimization.

Responsibilities:

  • Architecting, implementing, and managing Azure production and development environments to support enterprise applications and products.
  • Azure cloud infrastructure administration and engineering.
  • Creating and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, with deployments to Azure Kubernetes Services, and APIM.
  • Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation.
  • Application and infrastructure incident response.
  • Project management.
  • Azure cost analysis and optimization.
  • Automation and operational process optimization.
Qualifications:
  • 10+ years' experience in DevOps Engineering, 5+ years in Azure Cloud engineering and 2+ years mentoring/leading engineers. Candidate must be fully hands-on with recent Azure experience.
  • Mastery of Azure DevOps CI/CD, building, and deploying to Kubernetes.
  • Mastery of Kubernetes, preferred experience with ArgoCD and Istio.
  • Terraform Infrastructure as Code, Ansible configuration automation at scale.
  • Azure DevOps and Azure Engineer certification or comparable hands-on experience.
  • State Management, and Cloud Orchestration.
  • Mastery in written/verbal skills.
  • Mastery with contemporary engineering process (e.g. agile, scrum, Kanban).
  • Mastery of SQL and Database architecture, administration, and performance management.
  • 4-year degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.

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