Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Qualifications:

• 5+ years technical experience with CI/CD practices, Infrastructure as Code, working with cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS desirable.
• Azure and Azure DevOps relevant training and certification
• Azure experience mandatory, AWS and other cloud platforms desirable.
• Understanding of networking and security principles operating in a cloud environment mandatory.
• Integration experience with REST APIs (ServiceNow, Azure Graph APIs)
• Experience in service management using ServiceNow desirable.
• CI/CD as part of SDLC support and deployments.
• Source-code management using GIT-based repositories

Key Responsibilities:

• Promoting and developing automation/orchestration to support scalable infrastructure.
• An SME with Powershell, YAML, ARM, JSON templates, Terraform and Azure DevOps/GitHub
• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and technical designs, being able to translate this into code
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others, analysing results and providing feedback
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems with rapid development of IaC updates and fixes
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions.
• Identify and isolate complex server system or service outages performance degradation.
• Represent Cloud Delivery in Problem Management meetings.
• Implement operational changes required to maintain the integrity of the server products or to return the products to full capability from a degraded state.
• Implement new services as part of Internal Cloud Delivery projects, external Projects and/or as instructed by Architecture.