Senior Azure or .NET Application Engineer

Contract Seattle, WA || Hybrid Job Description Required Skills - Microsoft Azure; .NET Core; ASP.NET MVC; Azure DevOps; Containerization; SQL Server

Job Duties -

• Be an active participant in all scrum ceremonies and in the delivery of the strategic roadmap.
• Propose technical solutions.
• Delivery of well-designed, high-quality, fully functional, properly tested features, fixes, and enhancements.
• Responsible for the full application development lifecycle and support.
• Use your strong understanding of Continuous Delivery and Integration frameworks including deployment automation, configuration management, test, and source code/git repositories to help the team deliver
• Help troubleshoot and support our store partners with operational issues and update/correct/create knowledge base articles.
• Troubleshooting and debugging to optimize performance.
• Provide subject matter expertise and direction, guidance, and support on complex engagements.

Job Requirements -

• 7+ years of software engineering
• 5+ years of Microsoft .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET MVC experience
• 5+ years of cloud computing, preferably Azure, including Containerization, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Virtual Networks, Load Balancers, Traffic Manager, and Application Gateway for networks
• 4+ years of SQL Server including database design, query optimization, and stored procedures
• 3+ years of API development, including RESTful services and third-party integrations
• 3+ years of Azure DevOps or other CI/CD tools to manage deployments, Git principals, release planning, branch management, GitHub Actions
• 2+ years of Azure EntraID formerly Azure Active Directory (AAD) for identity and access management
• Knowledge of application monitoring tools such as Application Insights, Datadog, Splunk, and New Relic

Knowledge of Apigee

Desired Skills & Experience -

• Hands-on experience with Azure App Services, Blob Storage, Queues, Event Hubs, Key Vault, and Application Insights.
• Expertise in designing and implementing Azure Service Bus solutions for various messaging scenarios, including point-to-point (queues) and publish-subscribe (topics) patterns.
• Experience in designing and implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Experience in automating infrastructure provisioning and deployments using ARM, templates, Terraform, or Bicep.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.

Experience with moving workloads from IaaS (e.g., Virtual Machines, legacy applications) to PaaS services (e.g., Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, Azure Functions).