DevOps Engineer Level 2

DevOps Engineer Level 2
JOB-6879 | Program

Location: BTC-Blue Ash, OH (Remote)

Duration : 6 Months
Note to Vendors

- Remote candidates will be considered

- This will be a 612-month contract

- Pre-screen consists of 4 video questions pertaining to candidate's experience and knowledge in the field and will take 10-15 min to complete

Job Description

Kroger Application Platform(KAP) is an initiative to develop common development toolset/framework for an application team to quickly get started on their Cloud journey. As part of KAP Data track, we are looking for DevOps engineers to help us with automating and building scripts to provision infrastructure for Azure data platform services.

What are the top 3 must have skills that these candidates need to have to be considered?:

1. At least one configuration deployment tool (Terraform, Ansible or Chef)

2. Experience architecting cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, or GitLab)

3. Experience with any Cloud data platforms deployment
REQUIRED SKILLS:

7+ years of professional experience

3+ years of Terraform and Azure Automation experience

Experience managing and provisioning Infrastructure as code components in Cloud

Hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Python, bash, go etc.

Experience architecting cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, or GitLab

Hands-on experience designing & deploying Highly available Azure Cloud data platforms.

Experience deploying incremental changes and manage production deployment pipelines.

Experience working in an Agile, fast paced, DevOps Environment

Support internal customers in adopting the developed automated patterns

Strong presentation, verbal, and written communications skills
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

Knowledge of deployment of Cloud data platforms such as MS SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Databricks, Snowflake, etc

Knowledge of Data services and Event services (EventHub, Event Grid, Service Bus) in Azure

Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewall

Experience implementing and designing cloud native security concepts, DevSecOps or MLOps

Ability to lead effectively across organizations and engagements, preferably from a professional services organization or similar
Key Responsibilities

Automate and build scripts to provision infrastructure for Azure data platform services

Enhance existing templates that are already build (Ex: Integrate with ServiceNow)

Assist Kroger application teams in utilizing templates and support as needed

Present new capabilities/features developed to broader audience

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