Build a strong relationship with the development teams to understand the code, its dependencies, and the infrastructure on which it runs.
Experience building cloud-based infrastructure solutions in Azure and AWS with a strong governance model knowledge.
Work with the development team to deploy and manage tools that support SDLC automation, configuration management, and release management.
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines that automate all aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications in Azure.
Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document the problem, and implement preventive measures.
Maintain technical system documentation as needed for audits and compliance.
Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to team members to build cloud competencies.
Work with the project teams in support of creating and participating in building customer briefings.
Ability to facilitate customer briefings inclusive of putting together materials and presentations
Qualifications
Education and Years of Experience:
Bachelor s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
8+ years of working experience on Microsoft Azure environment, especially but not limited to Azure AKS (Kubernetes), Azure ALB (Load Balancer), Azure Application Gateway.
8+years of working experience on Amazon AWS Cloud especially but not limited to Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch 8+years of working experience on infrastructure on demand and configuration of Microservices architecture based on Kubernetes and Docker 8+years of working experience in tools for routing and monitoring like HAProxy, Kibana, Grafana and Prometheus
Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:
Azure Certification (eg DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert) Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) principles and practices.
Hands-on experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates is preferred.
Experience with source code management tools such as Gerrit, Bitbucket, Git, GitLab, and GitHub.
Strong knowledge in CI/CD tools, especially Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions Experience in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes (AKS) Experience in database management (MariaDB, MySQL, NoSQL) and integration patterns, including Clustering and optimization Proficiency in cross-platform scripting languages (Python, Bash) Experience with DevOps build tools including Maven, Gradle.
Experience with Monitoring tools including Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios, ELK Stack.
Experience deploying and administering DevOps toolchain such as Jenkins, TFS, SonarQube, Nexus, Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Cloud Formation, Terraform.
Knowledge of security and performance best practices for cloud architectures.
Ability to define and build scalable CI/CD pipelines.
Understanding of deployment strategies for containerization.
Strong understanding of network and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, and HTTP.
Ability to independently investigate, troubleshoot, design, and develop solutions.
Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of architects, developers, business analysts, quality assurance testers, and subject matter experts.
Strong written and oral communication skills to interact with business and technology teams.
Strong understanding and experience operating in an agile development environment.