DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

About the Job:

The DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in supporting and advancing our cloud infrastructure and deployment strategy. This role will focus on supporting the development team in all aspects of their role in an endtoend development lifecycle. This role will also aid the support and implementation team with the tools they need to support and test the software solutions. One of the primary roles will be supporting a cloud production staging testing and development infrastructure in Azure. This includes Front Door Linuxbased MSSQL Servers (looking to migrate to SQL Azure) Azure Web Apps IIS Servers Windows App Servers Windows Dev/Test Workstations and Linux Servers. This role will also be in charge of developing and implementing CI/CD pipelines in Azure. You will be responsible for the processes and controls for SOC2 ISO and HIPAA and any certifications and audits that go along with it. This is a new position within a growing company that was previously handled by senior management developers and engineering so the company is looking for an expert to take over the reins and lead the team into uncharted territories. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in various sized organizations to make a significant impact and help a startupstyle company scale up.

• Maintain and support a cloud production staging testing and development infrastructure in a welldocumented Azurebased infrastructure with alerts and monitoring
• Work with development to architect modern web microservices and cloudnative distributed systems based on containers such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Architect and automate the deployment and operation of cloudnative technologies using CI/CD workflows infrastructure provisioning and application deployment tools
• Participate in and support all aspects of the software development life cycle for Cloud solutions including planning requirements development and testing
• Research and implement new technologies that may improve efficiency scalability reliability repeatability and reduce cost
• Regularly audit current cloud environment and recommend changes and improvements that can impact performance and cost
• Configure and manage Azure resources including virtual networks virtual machines SQL database servers and more
• Migrate and archive onpremise vmware and hyperv workloads to Azure to a virtual network that can be accessed from the office or via VPN
• Effectively secure the cloud environment by managing IAM access and other security aspects of the cloud environment. This includes setting up users roles and groups with proper permissions (permissions management) providing employees and contractors secure access to limited resources and performing updates or maintenance to various resources and components
• Manage operating system images updates and operations for VMs typically managed in Azure

• Expert in Azure Cloud Technologies (Virtual Machines Web Apps Resource Groups Virtual Networks Express Routes Load Balancers Security Rules Network Security Groups Azure SQL Server Azure Blob Storage Azure Cache Azure Alerts Azure AD (Entra ID) Key Vaults Metrics and Logs)
• Proficient to Expert with Azure DevOps and Git (CI/CD using coded pipeline such as YAML and ansible playbooks)
• Experience securing managing and monitoring Azure environments
• Experience in complete Azure administration Subscriptions IAM Resource Groups etc.
• Experience with endtoend software development lifecycle and delivery using Waterfall and Agile practices
• Experience supporting technical teams implementing a DevOps platform to accelerate software delivery supporting techniques such as BlueGreen Deployment
• Ability to design and implement highly available and scalable application solutions in a cloud environment
• Expertlevel project management skills
• Programming skills in C# VB.NET Angular HTML and CSS a plus
• Ability to analyze business needs and translate them into technology solutions
• Excellent knowledge of OnPremise Infrastructure to support Virtual Machines (HyperV and VMWare) VPN Networking and migrating workloads to Azure

• Great problem solver
• Extremely hardworking
• Boundaryless workethic
• Ability to produce results with minimal supervision
• Team player
• Eager to learn
• Desire to be challenged
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• A bachelors degree or equivalent
• Azure DevOps certification preferred
• GSuite experience preferred
• 2 years of experience in DevOps
• 5 years in a technical position (software development software architecture IT engineering etc.)

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