Principal DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Job Description:

- Responsible for ensuring adherence to the SLAs as per contract.

- Take the lead on urgent issues and projects, ensuring statuses are properly communicated and appropriate staffing resources are assigned as required.

- Cloud and Puppet Automation: Design, build, support, and manage engineering activities related to cloud initiatives. Develop, design, and support automation modules using puppet technologies.

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in tech stack such as Linux, Networking and Load Balancing

- Have a thorough process methodology and ability to communicate with all stakeholders.

- Work collaboratively with development engineering to create and deploy a CI/CD infrastructure.

- Develop and implement environments for quality assurance, development, etc.

- Deploy and Support applications in a cloud environment.

- Responsible for infrastructure security and making sure environments are secure, reliable, scalable, and automated.

- Providing direct server support during various operations such as deployment and general production.

- Collaborating with developers to make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices.

- Designing, implementing and testing agreed-upon infrastructures.

- Automating deployment of Linux applications, system configurations and security settings.

- Evaluate candidates for open positions

Requirements

- BS degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or similar relevant field

- Minimum 6-10 years of related experience in the professional industry.

- Working on tools like Jenkins, Azure, App Center Cloud Formation, Ansible, Subversion, Docker, or relevant

- Strong experience in the administration of cloud-hosted environments on at least one popular cloud IAAS platform such as Azure and AWS

- DevOps – familiarity with DevOps practices and automation tooling

- Hands-on expertise on Microsoft products. (TFS, TeamCity)

- Virtualization – Facility with the techniques used to virtualize servers, applications, and desktops. Knowledge of the data center requirements to implement each technology.

- Must have hands-on working with the automation tool i.e. Ansible, Chef.

- Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform and Cloud Formation.

- Experience with CI/CD toolchain (Kubernetes)

- Basic level scripting experience (Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell).

- Experience with Linux distributions (Rhel 8, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Amazon Linux)

- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

- Flexible attitude and versatile personality.

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