The DevOps Engineer is a specialist engineering role providing deep technical skills across a wide number of Azure IaaS and PaaS technologies. The key focus is enabling full lifecycle infrastructure support, ideally integrated with the company ticketing system. Using existing automation artifacts, improving and augmenting these as required, you will provide automated, reliable, repeatable deployment and configuration of multiple, coordinated resources deployed in Azure. Expert or in-depth knowledge of Azure services is critical, and the ideal candidate will have had extensive experience of developing the artifacts required to deploy large-scale infrastructure projects in Azure.

Main Responsibilities

The DevOps Engineer (DE) will provide hands on delivery of services to customer. Service delivery will include development, testing, reviewing, and ongoing operational support of the company CI/CD capabilities for the maintenance of Azure infrastructure and services.

REQUIREMENTS

Key Duties

Use scripts, templates and other automation tools for the creation of Azure IaaS and PaaS services.

Offer expert guidance and advice to the internal teams on the capabilities of the Azure IaaS and PaaS platform.

Improve the existing set of automation tools to move towards a continuous integration model.

Respond to incidents raised by the client which affect the Azure estate. Ensure that any changes made in remediating incidents are translated into documented changes to the version-controlled infrastructure-as-code.

Provide input to technical designs that map to business requirements and translate these to a set of technology artifacts that deploy Azure IaaS/PaaS services to meet that requirement.

Understanding of Beeline applications and services.

Working together with Product Owners, Engineers and Architects to scope out required infrastructure and code delivery changes

Building out Azure infrastructure for internal/external facing environments as part of operational acceptance

Consider building in automation scripts, processes and tools where possible

Implement Operational tools and requirements, e.g. monitoring solutions, high availability services

Perform infrastructure and solution testing, including performance benchmarking, end-to-end testing, disaster recovery, etc

Produce detailed, high quality documentation of the delivered work

Escalation point for support cases that revolve around, or are dependent on the performance of our environments

Essential Skills

Strong cloud first background

Strong experience in Azure

Proficiency with scripting languages, PowerShell preferred

Exposure to automation tools

Desire to evaluate and learn new technologies to tackle real user problems effectively

Microsoft certified towards MCSA/MCSE Cloud Platform track desired

Ability to work independently or part of an extended team

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Success with working with senior external stakeholders

High attention to detail and testing execution

Proactive drive to learn new technologies

Technical skills and knowledge in the following:

Administration and support of Microsoft Server 2012R2.

IP Networking, IPSEC VPN,

Active Directory and related services (GPO, DNS)

Azure IaaS offerings

Azure PaaS offerings

Automation of Azure Resource Management deployments

Azure DevOps

Exposure to automation tools

PowerShell, CLI, JSON

Knowledge of available Azure native DB technology

Windows & Linux containers and orchestration platforms

SOAP / REST based Web Services with XML / JSON