AzureDevOps Engineer

Client : Internex/Hanu

Position: Senior SRE/AzureDevOps Engineer

Fully Remote • Miami, FL

Exp range : 10 Plus

Description

As a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer, you focus on using the latest cloud technologies to architect, scale and monitor our services and products. You will be a champion of systems, infrastructure automation and security. This is a hands-on technical position. The ideal candidate has prior experience managing Cloud Infrastructure and Enterprise applications striving to solve traditional operations problems through automation and software. You must possess a high standard of excellence, solid written and verbal communication skills, have a strong customer focus, and be capable of technical deep dives into web applications, application performance, databases, load balancers, networks, and cloud storage.

Requirements

Summary of Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and oversight with your strong understanding of Cloud services, DevOps/ DevSecOps toolsets and platforms including compute, storage, networking, Security, Kubernetes, service mesh, CI/CD, and observability.
• Drive automation of Cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, self-service, Infrastructure-as-Code services, Auto Scale initiatives, and DevOps deployment.
• Implement security baselines and standards for Azure resources including Network access, restriction of internet-facing resource provision and configuration within the Azure environment.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements, architecture, development, and deployment.
• Provide expertise and serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for both infrastructure and application provisioning and configurations in Microsoft Azure.
• Work with application teams with their digital transformation goals and provide Azure resource deployment orchestration, automation, security, and configuration expertise.
• Lead and implement all aspects of a cloud migration initiative, including its impact on infrastructure, networks, and security.
• Establish a continuous improvement plan for Cloud Operations, including technology reviews, root cause analysis, action reports analysis, and cloud portfolio review to ensure adequate infrastructure to provide a suitable operating environment(s) for critical applications.
• Create observability strategies with focus on self-healing mechanisms.
• Reduce Mean Time To Recover (MTTR) for micro and macro recoveries.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by following the broader industry, attending training sessions and educational workshops.
• Contribute to roadmap development, execution, and releases.
• Ensure all applications are fault-tolerant, highly available where possible, and make efficient and effective use of computing resources.
• Collaborate with software engineering, product, and design teams to ensure that software releases, internal and external, can be done easily (and retracted easily if need be).
• Define and develop architectural standards that promote DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• Optimizing solution architectures to manage costs and identify cost control mechanisms.
• Document processes and train other team members.

Requirements:

• Experience in designing and implementing applications using PaaS Services in a hybrid Azure environment.
• Hands-on experience:
• deploying Azure resources from Azure DevOps pipelines
• writing Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates and modules
• writing Azure policies
• writing scripts in PowerShell or Azure CLI
• migrating applications to the Azure
• writing reusable IaC for multi-environments (e.g., dev, uat, prod)
• As an Azure SME, the individual should be able to:
• advise application team with various azure services
• advise applications with Azure resource configuration with security focus
• define the operating procedure in a Cloud environment
• support with performance tuning and testing activity
• Experience with SaaS based Observability solutions (AlertLogic, New Relic, Datadog, Sentry).
• Experience with multiple databases (MS SQL, Azure SQL, Postgres, MySQL, Redis).
• Proven ability to implement secure and highly available infrastructure services.
• A passion for advancing and continually improving our DevOps automation and practices to keep our applications easy to deploy, monitor, and scale.
• You have experience with writing and managing container-based infrastructure.
• You are familiar with segregation of duties and data standards such as SOC/SSAE, CIS, or PCI.
• Good understand difference between structure, semi-structured and unstructured data.
• You are familiar with SLI and SLOs.
• 3 + years of Terraform is a must.
• 3 + years of scripting language (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, etc...).
• 2 + years in SRE/DevOps role.
• 2 + years of experience in an IT Infrastructure Engineering role.
• 3 + years of proven experience in Azure PaaS services such as Azure AppService, Azure Kubernetes services.
• 3 + years of experience with Azure network infrastructure such as Virtual WAN, vNETs, subnets, Network Security Groups, route tables, ACLs) Azure AD, DNS, and domain management.
• 2 + years of proven experience with Azure database services such as Azure SQL, Azure COSMOS DB and MongoDB.
• Spanish language is a plus.
• Proven experience in Azure security tools such as Azure Security Center, Azure Key Vault and Azure Policies.

Bonus:

• Chat Bots
• Understanding of Chaos Engineering
• Public Git publications
• Have created front-end UI to facilitate DevOps self-service offering