Sr Azure DevOps Admin

Key Responsibilities

• Develops strategy to execute Azure Cloud Engineering.
• Develops and implements standards and best practices as it relates to cloud solutions.
• Leads efforts to provision infrastructure using infrastructure as code tooling ( using Terraform, ARM etc)
• Leverages automation to monitor and orchestrate client environments.
• Implements Cloud standards, DevOps / CICD tool chain and Standard Operating Environment (SOE).
• Supports business requirements by conducting business needs assessments and analysis.
• Keeps up with patches and updates to enable new functionality and address vulnerabilities.
• Conducts research on emerging technologies in support of cloud and infrastructure development efforts and recommends technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.
• Works with Kubernetes, Docker, and other container technologies.
• Deploys all Azure PaaS services (APIM, AKS, AppService, FrontDoor etc.).

Qualifications for Candidates

• 9+ years professional experience with Bachelor's degree
• 9+ years experience as an Azure cloud engineers supporting higher level PaaS services, network, and surrounding technology
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Azure cloud engineer focusing on IaC and PaaS Services (AKS, AppService etc.) - Terraform experience is a must-have. Interview process will have coding review and code sample creation.
• Focused experience and knowledge on Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes services is a huge plus as this position will be primarily dealing with Kubernetes every day
• Azure certification is highly desired
• AKS certification (CKAD) and HCI (Azure stack) experience preferred
• Strong communications / interpersonal skills.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Solid understanding of Azure public cloud platform.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle.
• Knowledge of programming languages and web- based technologies.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Broad knowledge of cloud computing concepts and solutions.
• Knowledge of infrastructure management within a cloud environment.
• Knowledge of cloud delivery models.
• Knowledge of Web services, API Gateway, Elastic/Network Load Balancers, ACA, policy framework, cache services, security framework etc
• Proficiency in modern software architecture using CI/CD, DevOps, Scalability, API first strategy and etc. required.