Azure Devops Developer @ ITC Infotech

We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer DevOps (Contract) who will collaborate directly with internal teams to support, deploy, secure, and extend security technology capabilities while working in a dynamic, Agile development process. This role will be an integral part of the Engineering team at the crossroads of security, APIs, and cloud infrastructure interacting with mobile applications. You ll review code, help plan features, reinforce deployments and releases, craft informative analytics, implement uptime and SLA monitors and generate ideas which ultimately improve our products along with planning. Work alongside our development teams to deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot application deployments
-Proactively improve site reliability and key metrics, such as up-time, application performance, time to issue resolution, time spent resolving incidents, and other key operational SLAs
-Build tools and employ automation to manage, standardize, and accelerate processes
-Implement infrastructure, build, scaling and project automation
-Design and implement Software Defined Infrastructure using cloud standards and methodologies
-Work with state-of-the-art tools such as Azure Cloud Services, PowerShell, Docker, SonarQube, Azure DevOps, Terraform, etc.
-Proactively monitor issues until they are fully resolved, keeping the stakeholders informed along the way
-Work with partner teams (like IT, Cloud Centre of Excellence, Information Security, Product Cyber Security, Product Engineering teams, etc.) to resolve application and security related issues
-Build a strong relationship with development teams to understand the code, its dependencies and the infrastructure on which it runs
-Act as point of contact for the global stakeholders and within Engineering function
-Champion and manage new initiatives to completion to improve and streamline operations processes and maximize systems availability
-Resolve complex problems that have implications beyond your own area
-Experiment with new cloud technologies to define their use cases/suitability

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
-Practical hands-on experience in maintaining environments using Microsoft Azure services (Azure App Services, Azure Front Door, Azure App Insights, Key Vaults, Managed Identities, App Registrations, etc.)
-Practical hands-on experience in Kubernetes (Azure Kubernetes Service) and Docker containers (Azure Container Registry)
-Strong Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines and build and deployment automation in Azure DevOps
-Strong hands-on experience in IaC tool like Terraform for the automation of infrastructure provisioning
-Strong hands-on experience in SonarQube
-Knowledge of tools for analytics, continuous health monitoring, and troubleshooting of deployment environments 24/7
-Experience with distributed computing systems and/or cloud infrastructures (Azure)
-Proficiency in scripting languages like YAML and Powershell
-Ability to think creatively while solving challenging problems across multiple systems
-Work with CI/CD and source control tools such as Azure DevOps and Github Enterprise
-Experience/comfortable with Agile/scrum development processes and methodologies
-Strong Experience in MS SQL Database configuration and scripts automation
-Possesses good working knowledge of scripting like Python, Ruby, etc.
-Strong Experience in defining strategy for performance, load, and security tests, and implementing them
-Strong knowledge of key DevOps concepts and metrics
-Understanding of key Cloud concepts and metrics
-Strong debugging skills
-Willingness to make decisions, ability to assess risk and act with a sense of urgency enabling teams to deliver on time
-Ability to relate to others, demonstrating resourcefulness and flexibility.
-Knowledge and/or experience in various non-Azure cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
-Good communication and written skills

Desired Skills & Abilities (Nice to have, but not required)
-Strong experience with Linux/Windows based infrastructures, Windows/Linux/Unix administration
-Polyglot development (enterprise/web/API development, swift, Java, C#, Cloud)
-Experience and understanding of software design patterns
-Experience with interfacing to hardware device and/or home automation products
-Working knowledge of databases and SQL
-Experience in compliance scanning tool like Blackduck
-Experience in DevOps implementation for mobile apps

Mandatory Skills

Azure Cloud Services (Azure App Services, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, Azure App Insights, Key Vaults, Managed Identities, App Registrations, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Registry, etc.)
Azure DevOps
Terraform
YAML and Powershell scripting
SonarQube

Desired Skills

Mobile application deployments
Xcode and Android Studio
Swift and Gradle
Blackduck
Shell scripting
MS SQL Database

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