Job Title: Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: Cincinnati, OH // Charlotte, NC // Boca Raton, FL // Chicago, IL or within 50 Miles of these locations

Duration: 12 Months Contract Role

Requirements:

• 12 years of experience in support and/or engineering for the specific technical discipline. Azure Cloud experience for at least 2 to 3 yrs. in their most recent projects.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate information to customers and all levels within the organization

• Azure Kubernetes

• DevOps pipeline processes

• Observability practices

• Security (open policy agent)

• Terraform

• Proven ability to understand company business problems and identify technical solutions.

Desired Skills:

• Any experience in coordinating and working on multiple cross-functional base work initiatives and projects

• Any experience in diagnosing and resolving complex hardware, software and connectivity problems

• Any experience in leading enterprise base work initiatives and projects

• Certification within Infrastructure Discipline

• Ability to develop enhanced production monitoring and additional capability

Typical Duties:

• Design and implement overall infrastructure project components with infrastructure teams, ensuring that overall solution is designed to meet SLA, DR, monitoring, security and scalability needs required by the solution

• Ensure that post-production operational processes/deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase

• Generate scripts and templates required for the automatic provisioning of resources, on prem, cloud and distributed

• Discover, install and execute processes and standards for optimal use of cloud service provider offerings

• Debug technical issues inside a complex stack involving virtualization, containers and microservices

• Collaborate with engineering teams to enable their applications to run on Cloud infrastructure

• Define and create operational procedures, processes and scripts

• Ensure secure operations of infrastructure technologies (security updates, vulnerability management, role access management, configuration hardening)

• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies to ensure adherence to architecture guidelines

• Evaluate vendor technical and support capabilities

• Provide technical leadership on enterprise work and establishing standards/guidelines

• Define improvements, increased system reliability and performance

• Design, implement and support multiple complex systems or applications with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility

• Support and maintain infrastructure solutions utilizing required tools and technologies

• Provide off-hours support (24 x 7) as required