Lead Administrator

Role:Cloud DevOps Engineer Expert Level (Azure)

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Introduction

Wipro are searching for talented resources to join an existing customer project within a major client to support the creation and delivery of Public Cloud services.

The objective of this project is to develop the public cloud platform to the next level of functionality, scalability, reliability and to improve the integration with the Customers existing systems, processes and services. This will be done by implementing new capabilities according to the customers global roadmap (taking in consideration both business needs and technical constraints) and by extending the current infrastructure services to other locations using a fully automated approach.

Integrated monitoring, proactive alerting and native integration with the Customers incident management processes are part of the daily activities as well as exposing APIs for the developed services via the customers strategic hybrid cloud platform in order to deliver standardised hybrid cloud solutions to multiple internal business lines.

Responsibilities

Evolve current Landing Zone Concepts and basic infrastructure services by introducing Pre-defined Infrastructure as a code templates to launch complete environments.

Implement platform features specified in User Stories complying with quality standards specified by the Customer IT Architect

Definition and organization of testing activities, writing test case scenarios and scripts for automating testing, preparation of status reports of testing activities

Ensure use of best practices/well architected review of applications and code. Review of peers code in line with best practices

Leveraging IaC tools such as Terraform and cloud native build templates and code.

Hybrid cloud integration

Leverage customers CI/CD pipelines to automated builds and deployments

General capabilities

We are looking for Professionals with 8-12 years experience with the following capabilities:

Possesses deep industry knowledge.

Able to create and elaborate as-is solutions as well as address business & functional requirements of very high complexity.

Write use cases / user stories, designs document, acceptance scenarios, test cases.

Able to perform gap and cost-benefit analysis of business requirement to existing implementation.

Able to create low level designs to meet architectural standards and high-level design concepts for IT infrastructure platforms

Solid full stack development experience, comfortable with trunk-based development and the creation of services definition through code.

Knowledge of new technology standards, such as cloud computing, hybrid cloud, immutable infrastructure, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code.

Knowledge and capabilities to design projects enabling the DevOps implementation

Experienced in agile code development working within SCRUM team

Specific mandatory skills
    

Area
  

Skill
  

Minimum level in this subject
    
Azure
  

Azure Foundational Services

All following services are used and therefore you need to have deep knowledge and experience in each.

Express Route, Load Balancer, VNET, VPN Gateway, VMs, CDN, DNS, AKS, Azure Functions, Subscriptions, Auto Scaling and Scale sets, Blob storage, CosmosDB, Rediscache, VSTS, Operational Insights, Azure Resource Manager, Building Blocks, Powershell, Azure AD, App Service Certificate, Key Vault, API Management, Service Bus Queues, Azure Notification Services, Marketplace,

How to setup these quickly via IaC
  
6-8 years

Need to understand application architecture stacks and how these are delivered through the foundational Azure services mentioned.

Can build requested architecture stacks using Azure components.
    
Scripting
  
Python, Bash, etc.
  
4-5 years

Need to understand how to create scripts to achieve small tasks that cannot be handled by bigger tools

Need to be able to write Azure functions to carry out simple tasks using Azure services, such as check and report on status of services.
    
Linux / Windows Admin
  
Install Operating Systems, install application services, automation of tasks (Ansible / Chef)
  
4-5 years

Linux preferred.

Capable of building services (across many target machines)

Diagnosing problems with running services
    
DevOps
  
Coding in CICD environment, use of Github, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.

Employing best practices on code structuring (trunk-based development), code management and documentation, Jira/Confluence.
  
4-5 years

Must be used to developing and maintaining code that forms part of standardised services.

Must be able to create new Jenkins pipelines as required.
    
IaC
  
ARM Templates and Terraform
  
4-5 years

Need to be competent in coding Infrastructure stack deployments in these.

Need to understand differences between them, which is preferable for given scenario.
    

Measurable KPIs

Sprint velocity with SCRUM team

Average Time to Market (for new requirements)

Code quality

Wasted effort and rework due to bugs