Senior Devops Engineer - Cloud (Azure)

*Description:* The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a visible and influential leadership role to evolve and maintain our Azure environments and services. This role leads the creation and support of development and infrastructure pipelines that seek to remove human interaction with production systems and enable reproducibility across builds. They enable development teams to deploy services on-demand and ensure that proper screening and testing of the code takes place within the pipelines. This resource will also leverage best practices for configuring and maintaining Azure resources, including VMs, databases, and storage. This role helps establish technical standards and patterns, creates tools and automated workflow capabilities, and builds cloud ecosystems that foster a high degree of innovation and enablement. Solutions Development: - Drive innovation by delivering Azure-based projects for the enterprise; including migrations from on-premises, CICD pipelines, rehydration practices, managing containers, cloud security, and elastic computing. - Work with development and other DevOps teams on building technical solutions that leverage established patterns for Azure and follow architecture strategies and guidelines. - Establish and implement cost containment practices that provide robust guardrails and effectively balance developer productivity with controlling consumption-based cost challenges. - Help evolve Azure solutions to a self-service deployment model. - Rationalize technology and tool recommendations. - Integrate solutions into the larger technical ecosystem to maximize impact and value. Patterns and Standards Development: - Identify pattern and standard gaps for Azure development and/or administrative services and determine potential options to address. - Research, develop, and drive the adoption of cloud-based design patterns and standards; align to Azure best practices. - Publish thorough documentation of Azure standards/patterns and drive adoption across business and technical areas. Operations and Support: - Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, and implement preventative measures for Azure infrastructure, tools, and services. - Help manage and maintain Azure environments in accordance with corporate, security, and compliance standards. - Develop and implement Azure service health and operational metrics, including performance, availability, capacity utilization, redundancy, and cost. - Participate in prioritization and other DevOps work planning activities. *Skills:* Terraform, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud, Devops, Automation, istio, AKS, pipeline, gitops, argocd, argo workflow, data science, data platforms, data teams, dynatrace, api development *Top Skills Details:* Terraform,Azure,Kubernetes,Cloud,Devops,Automation,istio,AKS,pipeline,gitops,argocd,argo workflow *Additional Skills & Qualifications:* Nice to Have: - Ownership, consultative mindset, no hand-holding, able to drive the vision AND come up with new ideas is a huge perk - Experience with data science, data platforms, data teams, etc. The vision is to bring data science workloads into the clusters next. - Improving monitoring and automation. They're currently using Dynatrace. - Development experience is a plus - Working with microservices and RESTful APIs is a plus - understanding those concepts at the very least. - Working with development/apps teams Environment is very fresh. Clusters immature. Will have at least 4 clusters, more to come. Smaller team so need true ownership and ability to remove your own blockers. Speak up about ideas. Someone that has seen some rollouts in their days, some "battle scars" (aka been there done that). Someone that can add to the vision. Very collaborative atmosphere. Everything checked in and deployed thru the piplines, buildign things that are compliant straight out the box. *Experience Level:* Expert Level About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

Created: 2024-11-05