Azure Devops Engineer at GVA Partners

Overview

• We require the service of a highly skilled Azure DevOps engineer.
• The successful individual will work in multi-disciplinary teams to provide a broad range of information technology-related services, such as IT strategy and architecture, IT implementation support, and software development.

Responsibilities

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analysing the result
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions.

Job Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a First Degree in any relevant field with at least 7 years of relevant work experience.
• Azure (IaaS and PaaS) experience in managing configuration for Azure cloud-based Application Development and Implementation
• Well Versed in PowerShell Scripting, ARM Templates, Azure AD, App Service Plans, Azure Service Environments (Isolated Plans)
• Experienced with Azure PaaS Configuration and Administration of Azure Resources.
• Strong understanding of commonly used Azure PaaS Services viz. SQL PaaS, Azure Functions, Web Jobs, Bots, Redis, ServiceBus, etc.
• Experienced with Azure SDK / API experience.
• Knowledge with Azure Key Vault and Azure Storage
• Experience with Application Code Deployment and Configuration on Azure Environment.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with Code Debugging experience in Azure PaaS Hosted Environment.
• Knowledge and experience with working on PowerShell, JSON, XML, or similar scripting language.
• Experienced with VM Build & Management from VHD, establishes policy and ability to create policy.
• Experience in the process of Incident/Change/Problem management.
• Hand on experience in handling high-priority Incidents and troubleshooting.
• Responsible to implement automation where needed, creating/improving monitoring strategies, and maintenance and optimization of Azure-based infrastructure.
• Be the point of escalation for troubleshooting and remediating Azure cloud issues.
• Hands-on client project support, minimizing service outages, supervises and produce documentation for issue tracking.
• Create and manage best practice documents and procedures to provide a uniform, compliant cloud environment for production implementation, Update Knowledge base, and Standard Operating Procedures.

Comprehensive Understanding of the Following:

• GCP – Google Cloud Platform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• GraphQL
• CICD: Spinnaker
• GitHub
• YAML Script
• Automated build pipeline
• Infrastructure as a Code.