What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect position at Optomi?
Lead Azure Platform Engineer (Direct Hire | Hybrid 2x a week)
Locations: Charlotte, NC; Branchville, NJ; or Hartford, CT
Responsibilities:
- Designs and leads the implementation of Azure cloud-based architectures, cloud networking, and containerization with experience in patterns/automation using Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Designs and leads the implementation of CI/CD and other automation solutions and identifies design patterns with emphasis on reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security.
- Creates and improves process flows, release pipeline documentation, mockups, and other collateral to convey technical details and association with requested outcomes.
- Leads the technical evaluation of DevOps solutions, understands existing industry DevOps solutions, and designs any required custom system integrations.
- Acts as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for DevOps architecture within development teams.
- Measures and demonstrates the benefits and/or business value of DevOps improvements.
- Presents innovative complex solutions/ideas across all levels of participants and works in a team environment as both a leader and an individual contributor.
- Identifies customer, business and technology needs through relationship building and communication with key stakeholders.
- Identifies gaps and proposes modernization opportunities that involve both process and technical/automation aspects of the SDLC
- Debugs/troubleshoots issues with new and existing CI/CD pipelines.
Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in applications development
- 3 years of experience designing DevOps pipelines using tools and technologies including Azure DevOps, SonarQube and YAML.
- Prior experience as a DevOps engineer with focus on Azure Cloud Services
- In-depth knowledge of Azure services including but not limited to Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, and Azure Security.
- Proficiency in Azure DevOps and building CI/CD pipelines, that includes Azure environment provisioning tasks.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Terraform, or Ansible.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking and security best practices.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Bicep, PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
- Strategic leader with experience successfully driving CI/CD implementations and DevOps process improvements in both green- and brown-field situations.
- Understanding and experience implementing key DevOps concepts, e.g. shift left, process improvement, continuous delivery, etc.
- Advanced experience in GIT repositories to support management and branching of code, implementing pipelines, release management
- Understanding of best practices to support company governance and audit requirements in support of full SDLC
- Self-starter who can work independently and making decisions when necessary/as applicable.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and can mentor others
- Experience leading and influencing other technical leaders and collaborating with organizational leaders to build out multi-year technical visions
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels
- Preferred: Experience acting as a technical lead
- Preferred: Experience with having worked in an Agile environment, preferably SAFe.
- Preferred: Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- Preferred: Experience in Application Security / DevSecOps roles
Salary : $145,000 - $155,000
