Advanced Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior SRE/DevOps engineer who designs, automates, and operates enterprise Azure cloud infrastructure: building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), provisioning with Terraform/Ansible, running Kubernetes/AKS workloads, and providing 24x7 escalation support. Deep Azure expertise (IaaS/PaaS, Entra ID, monitoring) with GCP as a plus.
Skills:
- 7+ years of relevant infrastructure or software engineering experience.
- 5+ years of experience with deployment/automation/management tools such as Docker, Terraform,
- In-depth knowledge of Azure services, including Azure Networking, Storage, Firewall, Compute, Function, Backup and Azure DevOps
- K8s, Azure AKS, and Rancher.
- 3+ years of experience working with, designing, and implementing Azure cloud solutions.
- 2+ years of experience leading technical proof of concept projects.
- Automating routine tasks using Ansible, Python, Terraform and Azure CLI for enhanced efficiency.
- Must have experience working with Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, respectively.
- Experience configuring and managing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub actions, GitLab, Jenkins, etc. for enterprise-level deployments.
- Proficient in identifying, researching, and resolving technical problems by determining the true root cause.
- Capable of performing a wide range of complex tasks and providing support for escalated trouble tickets.
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
- Scripting skills and working experience with Infrastructure as Code
- A passion for keeping up to date with the latest cloud trends and technologies.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Identify and mitigate risks associated with cloud-based solutions.
- Efficiency to work independently and as part of a team.
- Assist application teams in onboarding their applications into the enterprise cloud environment.
- Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments through Azure GitHub actions.
- Assist application teams in onboarding their applications into the enterprise cloud environment.
- Design and implement cloud-based solutions that meet business needs.
- Ensure that cloud-based solutions are secure and compliant with industry standards.
- Proficiency in multi-cloud environments, especially in GCP, is highly desirable.
- Strong familiarity and comfort working with version-control systems, such as Git.
- Advanced experience in large scale cloud architecture, design, and integration with a focus on automation, networking, and NextGen Firewall
- Provide off-hours support (24 x 7) as required.
Azure Must haves:
- 3+ years of experience designing and supporting Azure environments, including IaaS and PaaS.
- Understanding of C4Model. (https://c4model.com/)
- Understanding and working experience with MS Entra ID.
- Strong working experience using Terraform to deploy Azure Resources.
- Strong working experience using GitHub.
- Experience with of Azure PaaS services including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Synapse, Databricks, azure functions, Azure SQL, Cosmos, etc.
- Experience in designing and analyzing enterprise level Azure Architecture.
- Experience with Monitoring tools such as Azure monitor, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus etc.
- Ability to implement security measures for Azure-based applications and infrastructure.
Non-cloud specific must haves
- Experience and proficiency with Mac OS
- Hands on Kubernetes experience
- Best practice knowledge of software development lifecycle
- Good communication skills
- Experience working on an Agile SCRUM team
- Understanding that during business hours, thorough communication and presence is fully required
Nice to haves:
- Azure Certifications
- Azure Bicep
- Hands-on Azure DevOps
Skills
- Agile
- AKS
- Ansible
- Automation
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Functions
- Azure Synapse
- Bicep
- CI/CD
- CLI
- Cloud
- Databricks
- Datadog
- DevOps
- Docker
- Dynatrace
- Entra ID
- Firewall
- GCP
- Git
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- Grafana
- Infrastructure as Code
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Networking
- Prometheus
- Proof of Concept
- Python
- Rancher
- Scrum
- SQL
- Terraform
- Version Control