Azure DevOps

The opportunity

We are looking for Senior DevOps Engineers to join our DevOps team. DevOps is one of the leading competencies with the following key offerings:

• Assessment and Strategy Planning.
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment [CI/CD].
• Environment Provisioning (On Prem/Cloud).
• Automated Infrastructure via IaC.
•  Monitoring & Logging and Site Reliability.

As Senior DevOps engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on industry leading Greenfield and/or Brownfield implementations that meets the highest DevOps standards providing best user experience to our clients across the globe. You have a passion for automation and try to implement it at every turn.

Your key responsibilities:

• Provision and configure build servers, testing, staging, and production environments to ensure continuity.
• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure.
•  Design, build, test, deploy, maintain and improve technology solutions.
•  Ensure that software is always release-ready with updated versions of the application, in the working state.
• Build, test and maintain continuous integration and delivery workflows using  CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps etc.).
• Automate infrastructure through robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and support developers in the organization by means of improving CI/CD processes.
• Assess existing technology and provide plans and processes for improvement.
• Conduct working sessions with IT teams to support the upskilling of technical resources in DevOps methodology and DevOps tooling.
• Monitors and report relevant KPIs and SLAs.
•  Willing to work in shifts and open to business travels at client locations.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Understanding of or experience in Agile Development Environment.
•  Problem solving and troubleshooting with eye for details.
•  Good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work in both collaborative and independent work environments.
• Proven ability to work as DevOps lead on projects.
• Excellent command over English (written and spoken).

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Experience in DevOps practices including design, configuration, continuous integration & delivery workflows in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps etc.).
• Experience in Linux/Windows Administration with scripting capability in one or more languages – Python, Bash, PowerShell and Groovy.
• Strong technical knowledge of Cloud concepts IaaS, PaaS, SaaS with experience in provisioning cloud (Azure) environments using IaC – Terraform, ARM templates.
• Strong technical understanding on web applications and database components such as Apache, IIS, Tomcat/JBoss, MySQL, SQL Server, etc.
• Experience in deploying applications (involving Java, .Net and node JS etc.) and understanding its architecture.
• Experience in maintaining & administering Docker and Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience in configuration management (Ansible, Puppet etc.) and version control (GitLab, GitHub etc.) systems.
• Experience in deploying, monitoring and maintaining Cloud systems (Azure Cloud).
• Experience with application load balancing solutions for scaling and HA.
• General networking skills required (TCP/IP, SNMP, etc.).

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Diploma or Degree in Computer Science, Software Engingeering or related discipline with 7+ years’ of overall experience.
• Good technical knowledge of Microservice oriented solutions, APIs, Azure AD and common Cloud authentication patterns.
• Cloud/DevOps Certification (MS Azure).