Sr Azure Dev Ops Admin

Job Title:  Sr Azure Dev Ops Admin

Location:  – REMOTE

Key Responsibilities

·         Develops strategy to execute Azure Cloud Engineering.

·         Develops and implements standards and best practices as it relates to cloud solutions.

·         Leads efforts to provision infrastructure using infrastructure as code tooling ( using Terraform, ARM etc)

·         Leverages automation to monitor and orchestrate client environments.

·         Implements Cloud standards, DevOps / CICD tool chain and Standard Operating Environment (SOE).

·         Supports business requirements by conducting business needs assessments and analysis.

·         Keeps up with patches and updates to enable new functionality and address vulnerabilities.

·         Conducts research on emerging technologies in support of cloud and infrastructure development efforts and recommends technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.

·         Works with Kubernetes, Docker, and other container technologies.

·         Deploys all Azure PaaS services (APIM, AKS, AppService, FrontDoor etc.).

·         9+ years professional experience with Bachelor’s degree

·         9+ years experience as an Azure cloud engineers supporting higher level PaaS services, network, and surrounding technology

·         Strong written and verbal communication skills.

·         Azure cloud engineer focusing on IaC and PaaS Services (AKS, AppService etc.) - Terraform experience is a must-have. Interview process  will have coding review and code sample creation.

·         Focused experience and knowledge on Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes services is a huge plus as this position will be primarily dealing with Kubernetes every day

·         Azure certification is highly desired

·         AKS certification (CKAD) and HCI (Azure stack) experience preferred

·         Strong communications / interpersonal skills.

·         Excellent troubleshooting skills.

·         Solid understanding of Azure public cloud platform.

·         Knowledge of software development life cycle.

·         Knowledge of programming languages and web- based technologies.

·         Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

·         Broad knowledge of cloud computing concepts and solutions.

·         Knowledge of infrastructure management within a cloud environment.

·         Knowledge of cloud delivery models.

·         Knowledge of Web services, API Gateway, Elastic/Network Load Balancers, ACA, policy framework, cache services, security framework etc

·         Proficiency in modern software architecture using CI/CD, DevOps, Scalability, API first strategy and etc. required.