Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 12+ Months

Mode of interview: Phone and video

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Architects and Tech Lead to finalize implementation plan to refactor Azure IaaS/PaaS cloud services for high availability, resiliency, scalability, security, and optimal performance to meet service level objectives.

• Create and maintain build and release pipelines for legacy and new services to achieve zero downtime deployments.

• Create automation to ensure consistency in deployment, maintenance, and operation of our products and services.

• Ensure software testing is automated upon deployment and continuously within production.

• Troubleshoot and determine root cause of complex cross product issues and identify action items to drive increased reliability.

• Mentor and pair program with other team members to help them succeed and achieve their full technical potential.

• Relentlessly document your implementation, patterns, practices, and processes

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in software development and/or DevOps roles

• Expert in creating build and release pipelines for software, infrastructure, and database deployments to cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud)

• Experience with IIS

• Expert in automating operational activities such as testing, scaling, data migration, configuration updates, etc.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across network, application, hardware, and service layers

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills

• Experience with Windows Server and IIS internals and administration

• Experience with developing software in an object-oriented language

• Experience in application refactoring, quality improvement, and performance optimization

• Knowledge of networking patterns for cloud-hosted services

• Knowledge of Azure infrastructure and architecture

• Experience working in an agile environment with an SDLC like Scrum, SaFE, etc.

• Experience participating in product release cycle, including code reviews and defect triage