You will be a critical member of a collaborative and forward-thinking team working with a diverse range of technologies, able to enjoy an amiable and supportive environment, and benefit from our investment in team skill-building and cross-training, wherein we leverage each other’s strengths.
About the Responsibilities:
• Ensuring application migrations from on-prem data centers to Microsoft Azure are successful
• Consulting and providing expertise on technical solution options, and contributing to decision-making discussions in areas such as serverless computing, containerized workloads, and big data
• Remaining up-to-date on internal and industry-wide best practices related to those solutions
• Evangelizing best practices for cloud architecture and the key pillars of cloud application operations
• Developing and ensuring delivery of resilient infrastructure designs using Infrastructure-as-Code
• Performing knowledge transfer for SRE, Application and Support team resources when needed
• Diagnosing and resolving potentially complex infrastructure, integration, and application issues
• Improving standardization and automation within maturing processes to enhance efficiency
• Performance testing and tuning to ensure production workloads are supported
• Monitoring and supporting critical business applications to ensure SLAs are met
• Understanding and implementing defensive, detective and corrective controls
• Assisting in the development and/or implementation of comprehensive information security procedures and practices to reduce attack surfaces and comply with best practices
• Augmenting project and systems documentation for technical and non-technical audiences
About the Requirements:
Overall Work Experience: 6+ Years
High-Value Professional Experience and Skills:
• Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on-prem to cloud
• Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs
• Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals
• Familiarity with current Microsoft Azure solutions; AWS and GCP experience also considered
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Prefer Terraform; Related: Ansible, Puppet, ARM templates)
• Automated CI/CD pipelines (Prefer GitHub Actions; Related: Jenkins, Argo CD)
• Containerized workloads (Prefer AKS & Helm; Related: EKS, other K8s distributions, Docker, JFrog)
• Serverless solutions (e.g. Logic Apps, Function Apps, Functions, WebJobs, AWS Lambda)
• Logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
• Network Security (e.g. Azure Policy, Active Directory/RBAC, ACLs, NSG rules, private endpoints)
• Big Data Analytics (e.g., Databricks, Synapse)
Other Desirable Professional Experience and Skills:
• Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate broad technical cloud knowledge
• Ability to act as a point of expertise, sharing knowledge and advising on best practices
• Strong budgeting/finance skills and experience with cost management
• Multi-component system integration and troubleshooting
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Secrets management (Prefer Hashicorp Vault; Related: Azure Key Vault, Secrets Manager)
• Kubernetes service meshes (Prefer Linkerd; Related: Istio, Traefik mesh)
• Coding/scripting (e.g., Linux/Bash/Sh, Windows/PowerShell/Batch, Python, Java)
• Event handling (e.g., Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Redis Streams, Event Hubs, Service Bus)
• Load balancing and service proxies (e.g., Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy, F5)
• Other products in use: Jira, Confluence, Azure Storage Explorer, MySQL Workbench, Maven
Basic Professional Experience and Skills:
• Knowledge of SDLC and change control, and associated procedures
• Common source code control tools and repositories (e.g., Git/GitHub/GitLab, VS Code, SVN)
• Ability to describe and discuss technical solutions with various audiences
Required Education and Length of Professional Experience:
• 6+ years professional experience in DevOps or SRE roles on a major cloud platform, preferably someone with project leadership roles.
• BSc+ in Engineering/Computer Science/IT, advanced degree preferred
• Industry certification for Cloud Developers/Architects (Prefer Azure; Related: AWS, GCP)
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