Hybrid Azure DevOps Engineer

Our Client has an exciting opportunity for an experience Azure DevOps Engineer to join their innovative and growing company in a DevOps Engineer position. This is a hybrid role, based in the Houston area.

The ideal candidate will be an expert in Azure, possessing deep, in-depth knowledge, with the ability to coach peers, and communicate DevOps topics with technical and non-technical people.

This individual will spearhead their DevOps practice by developing and overseeing systems for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications. They will champion DevOps principles across the organization, assemble and manage a team of DevOps specialists, and collaborate with software engineers, test engineers, business analysts, and others to enhance DevOps methodologies and facilitate training in these practices.

Relocation assistance is available for candidates that do not live in the Houston, TX area.

Responsibilities:

• Setting up infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or Microsoft Bicep
• Setting up, managing, and maintaining Kubernetes and Kubernetes clusters
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Create observability systems: logging, tracing, and performance metrics
• Deploy large scale, highly available systems
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operations
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Building automated processes using bash, PowerShell, Python, C#, or other scripting languages
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs.
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Accountabilities:

• Maintain build and release pipelines
• Respond to requests from internal customers
• Maintain Azure environments for Dev/Test and production

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science
• 10+ years' experience in software development environments
• Expert in Azure DevOps (8-10 years of experience)
• Experience working on various infrastructure such as Windows and Linux servers
• Excellent understanding of various coding languages such as C#, Java, PowerShell, JavaScript, Python
• Configuration and managing databases such as SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes
• Expert knowledge of IoC
• Expert knowledge of CI/CD

Preferred Qualifications:

• Kubernetes certification
• Azure DevOps certification

Equipment and Software Knowledge:

• Azure DevOps
• Azure Cloud servers
• Networking and Firewall configuration

In addition to competitive compensation, the Client offers a range of benefits including: Paid Time Off, 401(k), Full Health Benefits, 9 Paid Holidays, On-campus Gym and Free Parking.

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