Job Title :Azure DevOps engineer
Contract length:12 months
Location: Dallas/Plano (possible remote)
Need to be on W2
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
- Create and manage Azure DevOps Services build and release definitions to enable deployment to lower environments as well as production environments
- Primary duties will encompass the design and implementation of automated build and release pipelines utilizing Azure DevOps Services, supporting Salesforce applications and setup continuous integration capabilities
- Provide communication and collaboration between software development, quality assurance, business analysis, project management and infrastructure teams
Perform Dev, Test, UAT, Staging and Production build/deploy activities for application releases
- Support production deployments, assist with troubleshooting deployment issues
- Assist with branching/merging in order to provide support of parallel development requirements
- Collaborate with testing teams and assist with continuous delivery of builds to environment
- Act as a liaison between application development and infrastructure teams in the establishment of needed infrastructure in the development and subsequent support of application solutions
- Develop an understanding of infrastructure footprint of existing Salesforce solutions and utilize as a pattern for new solutions
- Serve as the SME for software development life-cycle tools that can support testing, monitoring, integration/release and scheduling areas
- Install, configure, troubleshoot, patch, and upgrade software application products
- Monitor usage and changes configurations to improve capacity or performance of servers
- Participate in system performance tuning and technical troubleshooting sessions
Minimum Skills And Competencies
8+ years of proven experience in developing cloud automation (DevOps) projects
4+ years of working experience on the Azure DevOps (ADO) framework, including Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Artifacts,
Azure Test Plans, Azure Board, and Azure Monitoring
Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps Services, creating and managing build definitions, and creating and managing release pipelines, deployment groups, deployment gates
Experience with all types of application configuration and deployment, including but not limited to, web applications, web services, windows services, micro services and Salesforce applications
Good knowledge of Azure cloud foundational components such as identity and access management (IAM), Network and Infrastructure, etc.
Good experience with version control systems including branching, pulling, tagging using knowledge of infrastructure as code automating the services creation and deployment using Terraform.
Good experience in working on an agile scrum project delivery while adopting scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning, daily standups, retrospective and review demo)
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD implementation and best practices utilizing Azure DevOps Services and on premises TFS
- Hands on expertise in Docker and Kubernetes
- Jenkins Administration, Jenkins Docker as well as Jenkins HA skil
- Experience in building end to end ci/cd pipelines using Jenkin, Nexus, Docker registry, Helm.
- Understanding of Change Control procedures, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery concepts as they relate to Distributed Systems architectures
Certifications
Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer expert
You will not approach our candidate directly or indirectly for further assistance and opportunities. We will retain the right to withdraw our candidate from the submission.