DevOps Azure Platform Engineer

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About you

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:

Experience and Technical skills

• Expertise in using Azure DevOps and related tools such as Visual Studio Git Jenkins and Docker.
• Knowledge of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) concepts and methodologies.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud computing platforms.
• Experience on Azure managed services (SQL Server PostgreSQL Azure Storage Account ...).
• Experience on Azure network and security components (build and run): VNet Network Security Group monitoring of resources and the best practices surrounding them.
• Mastery of Azure resource monitoring tool (OMS).
• Experience on best practices in terms of architecture design (AD Storage Managed services etc.)
• Experience on the Kubernetes Ecosystem (Node Pod Ingress ConfigMap FleexVolume Services NetworkPolicy CertManager ...).
• Experience on automation of deployment of architectures and configurations (PowerShell Python JSON ARM YAML HELM Terraform).
• Strong understanding of software development processes including Agile and DevOps methodologies.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycles and Agile methodologies.
• A bachelors or masters degree in computer science information technology or a related field.

Soft skills / transversal skills

• Problem solving mindset.
• Stakeholder management.
• Communication and collaboration skills adaptive to different levels of the organization from executive forums to technical teams.
• Autonomy and selfdrive but also teamwork and leadership.
• Analytical thinking attention to detail and problemsolving.
• English proficiency

Are you looking for a new challenge

If you are as enthusiastic as we are about the new opportunities in the Azure Cloud journey then we have the right position for you. We need experts like you to make the difference and crack the pitfalls in our ambitious but disciplined journey to expand our team of Azure specialist supporting AXA Cloud Strategy in the Risk Management area.

Where will you be in the organization

The division

Group Technology Operations(GTO) aims atdesigning developing and operating Global AXA IT products delivering them to AXA Entities and the AXA Group at the right level of quality of service and cost and aligned with businessdriven priorities. Its missions can be summarized in four main activities: global product delivery global product portfolio management daytoday operations management and entities proximity management.

The department / team

You will join the Corporate Functions Global Products department. In its IT for Business duty our department designs builds and operates end user global applications in the domain of Corporate & Support Functions organized in 24 products within 6 lines of products (Finance Investment Procurement Risk Management HR/Communication Compliance).

Our main mission is to be the preferred partner of the Business families in Corporate Functions while ensuring excellence and consistency across our products in:

Implementing operating and managing Group and/or Global Solutions

Delivering advisory services in answer to Business requirements and stakes

Leveraging a market leading rightshored delivery model

Continuously integrating customer centricity efficiency innovation & technology in our operating model

You will integrate a high performing team of 200 experts mainly located in France and Portugal (and supported by offshored managed services) with a strong focus on delivery collaboration commitment and value creation where you will have the opportunity to learn and develop yourself in cuttingedge technologies and engage in activities that relate directly with business processes and functions working together with the colleagues from the Group Corporate departments.

About the job

Job purpose

Our department is committed to offering to our customer entities cloudbased solutions that run with the expected performance and robustness while being efficient and costeffective.

The AXA GO product Risk Projection Engine Sunrise is an actuarialplatform fordynamic financial analysis (DFA) based on models andusing stochastic projections for predictions on Solvency 2 IFRS17 ALM and Internal Model Review and its widely used at AXA.

The Risk Projection Engine Sunrise Product runs in Azure Cloud environment and its supported by a team of specialists spread between France and Portugal GO offices. The purpose of this position is to integrate Azure Platform Engineers team and support the cloud strategy for RPE Sunrise.

Main mission

Your responsibilities include:

Integrate Azure Platform Engineer team using Agile practices to ensure communication work distribution and knowledge sharing.

Support the definition and implementation of RPESunrise Azure strategy deploying scalable reliable and highly available infrastructure solutions in Azure.

Monitor and optimize Azure performance and cost.

Work with the security team to ensure that Azure resources are configured securely and are compliant with applicable AXA security standards and regulations.

Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration processes to increase efficiency consistency and reliability.

Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Azure infrastructure working with other IT teams as Network and Cloud Broker to resolve issues quickly.