Lead DevOps Cloud Engineer

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Lead Cloud Engineer

Location: Detroit, MI

Duration: 24+months

Rate: $doe W2/1099

HYBRID MODEL 2 DAYS A WEEK ONSITE AT DETROIT, MI

MUST HAVE an expert understanding and hands on experience with Terraform, Github, Ansible and Packer. This is a hands-on DevOps Engineer role.

Responsibilities

• Builds cloud infrastructure products per Microsoft s cloud adoption framework, e.g., foundation services, landing zones, app patterns. Incorporates security across the SDLC.
• Oversees and manages development and operations (DevOps) automation, including set-up and configuration of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.
• Proactively initiates and drives initiatives to improve technical direction of the cloud and IaC technology stack to deliver business value.
• Applies a perspective of long-term value to promote shared services, scalable solutions, and best practices across products and platform.
• Works beyond the scope of the immediate team/product and able to create innovative solutions that add value.
• Assists in design of solution-dependent architectures per best practices and requirements.
• Improves cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost/benefit impacts, including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure robustness of the cloud infrastructure.
• Facilitates operations, development, and testing by continuously automating and streamlining integration and deployment processes.
• Builds, maintains, and supports integration between application CI/CD pipelines and the development lifecycle.
• Provides guidance to less experienced cloud developers in optimizing and automating cloud engineering activities (e.g., real time migration, provisioning, and deployment)

Domain Expertise Requirements

• Should have at least 3 years experience as a lead cloud (DevOps) engineer designing and securing technology assets across application, infrastructure and data tiers.
• Must have at least 3 years experience working in Azure.
• Have working knowledge of agile development methodologies (scrum, sprints, KanBan etc.) and tools (Azure DevOps etc.)
• Have at least 3-5 years hands-on experience as full stack developer using IaC tools Terraform, Github, Ansible, Packer
• Having experience in Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Backstage is preferrable but not required
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies and services including those for Compute, Storage, Databases and API Management
• On-premise to cloud migration experience