Principal DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring adherence to the SLAs as per contract
• Take the lead on urgent issues and projects, ensuring statuses are properly communicated and appropriate staffing resources are assigned as required
• Cloud and Puppet Automation: Design, build, support, and manage engineering activities related to cloud initiatives. Develop, design, and support automation modules using puppet technologies
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in tech stack such as Linux, Networking and Load Balancing
• Have a thorough process methodology and ability to communicate with all stakeholders
• Work collaboratively with development engineering to create and deploy a CI/CD infrastructure
• Develop and implement environments for quality assurance, development, etc
• Deploy and Support applications in a cloud environment
• Responsible for infrastructure security and making sure environments are secure, reliable, scalable, and automated
• Providing direct server support during various operations such as deployment and general production
• Collaborating with developers to make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices
• Designing, implementing and testing agreed-upon infrastructures
• Automating deployment of Linux applications, system configurations and security settings

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or similar relevant field
• Minimum 6-10 years of related experience in the professional industry
• Working on tools like Jenkins, Azure, App Center Cloud Formation, Ansible, Subversion, Docker, or relevant
• Strong experience in the administration of cloud-hosted environments on at least one popular cloud IAAS platform such as Azure and AWS
• DevOps - familiarity with DevOps practices and automation tooling
• Hands-on expertise on Microsoft products. (TFS, TeamCity)
• Virtualization - Facility with the techniques used to virtualize servers, applications, and desktops. Knowledge of the data center requirements to implement each technology
• Must have hands-on working with the automation tool i.e. Ansible, Chef
• Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Experience with CI/CD toolchain (Kubernetes)
• Basic level scripting experience (Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell)
• Experience with Linux distributions (Rhel 8, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Amazon Linux)
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Flexible attitude and versatile personality

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting