DevOps Engineer at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Job Summary

• DevOps Engineer would work with different IT departments and development teams to implement software strategies. They need to be flexible with the plans, deal with complex situations, assure product quality, and collaborate with different development teams.

Responsibilities 
Documentation:

• Hands-on client project support, minimizing service outages, supervise and produce documentation for issue tracking.
• As a DevOps Engineer, you need to consult with the clients, stakeholders, and developers to understand the requirements from both sides.
• 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.

System Analysis:

• Analyzing the current technologies used by the company and introduce new strategies to improve the development life cycle.

Design and Development:

• One of the key responsibilities of a DevOps Engineer is to provide such IT solutions to improve the development infrastructure of the organization. They can also automate several processes and reduce the risk occurring while coding, testing, and deploying the software products.

Collaboration and Support:

• To yield good results, you should monitor and perform technical analysis of the application development process. You should also collaborate with operations and development teams to mitigate the risks associated with the product life-cycle and improve the overall scalability and reliability of the application.

Software Testing:

• Software testing is a crucial part of the SDLC model and consumes a substantial amount of time. Therefore, it is important for engineers to automate the process of testing various software and minimize errors.

Deployment:

• Another important aspect that DevOps Engineers need to oversee is software deployment. They should fix the software production environment and automate the deployment process for new updates.

Performance Management:

• Use business-oriented operations to achieve successful development and identify alternative solutions for reducing the gap between the productions and deployment period.
• Responsible to implement automation where needed, create/improving monitoring strategies, and maintenance and optimization of Azure-based infrastructure.

Troubleshooting:

• Perform routine analysis of the production environment and ensure that operations for each project run smoothly.
• Be the point of escalation for troubleshooting and remediating Azure cloud issues.

Requirements

• Academic Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field.
• Experience: Minimum 4-7 years

Key Skills & Competencies:

• 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 Incident and troubleshooting.