Azure Devops Engineer

Overview :

As a DevOps engineer you are a highly skilled & experienced subject matter expert with a deep
understanding of public private and hybrid cloud platforms. Reporting to the DevOps Architect
the lead will play a key technical role in the life cycle of projects with significant interaction with
Architects Tech leads and project managers. Your in-depth knowledge of DevOps best practices
concepts and tooling coupled with a practical experience in DevOps SecOps and NetOps are
the key qualifying attributes for this position.
What does success look like
A successful DevOps Engineer Infrastructure & Platforms will have mastered the arts of:
Implement solutions provided by Cloud Architects Solution Architects
Bridged the gap between Development teams Infrastructure SMEs and other teams to
understand business requirements and deliver high quality outcomes
Maintain & improve stability integrity and efficiency of Materials DevOps tools and
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms through
monitoring optimization and proactive maintenance. .
Successful incident and problem resolution by direction and coordination during business
critical incidents or outages.
Responsibilities
Implementation
Deploy & manage highly scalable secure and reliable cloud-based infrastructure using
AWS Azure cloud and GCP
Use Infrastructure as a Code to define & deploy cloud infrastructure.
Translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs and
document all work using required standards methods and tools including prototyping
tools where appropriate.
Implement & manage automation and containerization technologies like Docker and
Kubernetes to streamline application deployment and scaling.
Implement cloud-based network infrastructure ensuring high availability security and
performance.
Review and optimize cloud environments to ensure adherence to Information Security
policies and industry best practices.
Contribute to Business Continuity Plan by implementing or improving DR HA and SRE
for critical cloud workloads.
Deploy and manage on-premises and SaaS source code repositories including Azure
DevOps Gitlab GitHub Bitbucket.
Implement systems characterized by managed levels of risk manageable business
technical complexity and meaningful impact with well-understood technology design
patterns.
Manage availability of different service components to ensure they meet business needs
and performance targets.
Create and interpret automation scripts for cloud-based CI/CD pipeline to
deploy/upgrade/patch web applications.
Deploy & promote applications across environments (e.g. Dev Quality Staging
Production)
Deliver tasks based on project objectives; technically support projects to completion.
Ensure deliverables are completed within target timeframes with consistently high-quality
Prepare documentation and support transition of operational activities
Collaboration
Collaborate with in Material IT groups (DWT INF EA) to implement base lines for IaaS
and PaaS platforms adopting best practices and policies that support and optimize their
respective environments
Collaborate with DevOps architect to support development teams with a full set of
DevOps ALM tools by leading the establishment of the right tooling and processes that will
result in a fully automated release management pipeline to include: the Automated build
process environment setups testing scripts deployments and production operational
metrics/debugging information (to target developers).
Influential and effective advisor and contributor to change management minimizing risks
that could be introduced to new or existing environments
Safely execute changes in an interruption-free manner using secure modern infrastructure
capabilities
Promote quality work by bringing multidisciplinary skillset to help connect the dots with IT
service owners partners and vendors.
Work closely with developers to ensure that applications are deployed monitored and
supported in a highly scalable and automated fashion.
Document the process and tasks being taught so it can be standardized and cross trained
across the team
Operations
Streamline DevOps processes throughout the organization decreasing deployment time
optimizing monitoring and reducing interruptions.
Monitor & optimize costs with stakeholders to ensure IaaS & PaaS operations are within
budget.
Participate in incident response activities on private and public cloud platforms.
Innovate in the automation & reliability engineering space making new solutions available
for use by our development community
Optimize resource utilization on existing cloud workloads.
Estimate costs for future cloud workloads based on project requirements.
Assist with cloud ops for existing workloads (scaling migration decommission).
Troubleshoot and identify problems across systems: including computing storage
networking software COTS and open-source packages and solutions and cloud
computing including IaaS PaaS SaaS.
Bring an automation mindset to eliminate mundane or repetitive tasks by providing
objective practical and relevant ideas insights and advice on DevOps initiatives.
Analyze current processes identify and implement opportunities to optimize processes
Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mind set by creating and
managing release pipelines for next generation application development efforts and
ongoing production operations.
Evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy
and standards.
Report on established KPIs to ensure performance is measured against expected
business outcomes.
Requirements
Education & Certifications:
Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or Engineering (B.E/B
Tech/M. E/M Tech) or related field or equivalent experience.
Certification on AWS cloud technologies is mandatory
Good to have: Certification on GCP Azure; Certified Kubernetes administrator
Functional:
Done it:
o 4 to 5 years of relevant experience in cloud-based infrastructure architecture
administration and monitoring.
o In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of AWS
o Proven experience as DevOps engineer.
o Strong understanding of networking cloud compute and storage.
o Strong knowledge of Cloud Governance focusing on application security risk
management and collaboration.
o Experience in inter-cloud migration.
o Experience with scripting languages like Python Ruby PowerShell or Bash.
o Advanced experience with usage and management of Git version control
technologies (GitHub Gitlab AWS Commit etc.)
o Proven experience applying best practices for frontend and backend
infrastructure (web engines relational databases storage network disaster
recovery high availability)
o Experience troubleshooting complex issues ranging from system resources to
application stack traces
Know it:
o Hands on in GCP/Azure
o Experience with continuous Integration tools (TeamCity Azure DevOps Gitlab
CI/CD AWS Code Pipeline)
o Working knowledge of automation service provisioning.
o Hands on experience with IAC tools such as Ansible Chef Terraform
CloudFormation Bicep Typescript Azure ARM etc.
o Hands on in containerization technologies (Docker Kubernetes Docker Swarm
AWS Fargate)
o Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management
o Secure systems & networks management through automation capacity planning
monitoring performance tuning and testing
o You are aware of information security at large Networks Docker security
Kubernetes Security.
o Strong hardware and software diagnostic skills
Shown it
o Familiarity with web development experience and setup: Apache Nginx etc.
o Familiarity with Agile/Scrum process using platforms like Jira/Confluence
o Experience with Grafana Prometheus ELK/EFK stack
o Demonstrable experience in converting complex business & security needs into
fit-for-purpose straightforward solutions with well-managed execution and non
interruptive transition to operations as well as effective troubleshooting &
escalation handling.
o Demonstrated competencies in system administration. DevOps or systems
knowledge security protocols for client/server environment.
o Experience supporting at least one of the following databases: MS-SQL server
MySQL MongoDB PostgreSQL etc.
o Working knowledge of related technologies including encryption IPsec VLANs
VPNs routing firewalls proxy services LAN/WAN connectivity
Do it
o Experience on SCM tools like GitHub Gitlab Bitbucket AWS Code Commit
Azure Repos etc.
o Experience in application and systems performance monitoring (Splunk New
Relic Azure Monitor AWS CloudWatch).
o Excellent communication interpersonal analytical and problem-solving skills.
o Continuous application of skillsets in cloud and hybrid environments adding
resiliency when introducing new and upcoming technologies.
o Experience with API Gee Kong or Kafka from an operational perspective will be a
good to have.
o Read and understand release notes and follow the deployment instructions
precisely to ensure zero defects in the deployment.
o Experience on open source/Linux will be good to have.
Competencies:
A communicator humble and patient individual working effectively with distributed
teams who is equally a mentor and a mentee
A creative mindset that brings ideas to life by leveraging technologies in new ways that
could have high impact in every aspect of operations
A technical player who is trusted to identify challenges and define how to overcome
them.
A multi-tasker and flexible towards work timings working in a fast-paced environment
without getting overwhelmed easily.
Detail-oriented always ready to put in the extra effort to deliver polished well-formed
IT solutions for Material.
Mindful of the employee experience - articulate confident & well-spoken in all forms
of communication comfortable to be the voice of our customer to Material IT and the
face of Material IT to our customers.