Lighthouse Technology Services is Hiring a MAX - Sr. DevOps Engineer - 1844003 Near Buffalo, NY
*Remote Contract Opportunity* Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Sr. DevOps Engineer position! This is a 6 month contract opportunity and can be remote in the United States working EST hours. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services. What You'll Be Doing: • Design, implement, and maintain Azure infrastructure solutions with a strong emphasis on automation and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles. • Develop and maintain Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Bicep, PowerShell scripts, and other automation tools to streamline infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management. • Collaborate with development teams to establish and optimize CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment using Azure DevOps or similar tools. • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance and availability of Azure infrastructure components, including virtual machines, PaaS (ex: storage accounts, disks, app services, virtual networks), and Azure services. • Implement and enforce security best practices for Azure infrastructure, including network security groups, firewall rules, access control, and encryption mechanisms. • Stay up to date with the latest Azure technologies, tools, and industry trends, and provide recommendations for improving infrastructure automation and DevOps practices. • Participate in cross-functional team meetings and contribute to technical discussions, development efforts across multiple teams and areas of responsibility, and infrastructure planning. • Create technical documentation. • Lead and mentor a growing DevOps team. What You'll Need to Have: • Minimum 4-6 years' experience in building Infrastructure automation and technologies to the Cloud; 2 years of experience as a senior engineer preferred. • International experience a plus, ability to speak French, Spanish, and/ or Portuguese is not necessary but would be a plus. English required. • Agile methodology especially Scrum (epics, user stories, features, MVP...). • Cloud services Microsoft Azure (IaaS / PaaS). • Version control software and job execution tools (Git, Repos). • Familiarity with continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) practices, concepts, and tools. • C# language and .NET framework. • Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, Azure CLI, Perl, Python, or similar technologies. • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible is a plus. • Solid understanding of networking principles, security best practices, and cloud architecture design patterns. Pay Range: $60-$70/hr Questions about any of our jobs? Email us at recruiting@lhtservices.com View all of our open jobs here: jobs.lhtservices.com