Azure Devops Engineer

Overview

As a DevOps engineer, you are a highly skilled & experienced subject matter expert with a deep

understanding of public, private and hybrid cloud platforms. Reporting to the DevOps Architect,

the lead will play a key technical role in the life cycle of projects, with significant interaction with

Architects, Tech leads and project managers. Your in-depth knowledge of DevOps best practices,

concepts and tooling coupled with a practical experience in DevOps, SecOps, and NetOps are

the key qualifying attributes for this position.

What does success look like?

A successful DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Platforms will have mastered the arts of:

• Implement solutions provided by Cloud Architects, Solution Architects
• Bridged the gap between Development teams, Infrastructure SME’s and other teams to
  
  

understand business requirements and deliver high quality outcomes

• Maintain & improve stability, integrity and efficiency of Material’s DevOps tools and
  
  

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms through

monitoring, optimization and proactive maintenance. .

• Successful incident and problem resolution by direction and coordination during business
  
  

critical incidents or outages.

Responsibilities

Implementation

• Deploy & manage highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure using
  
  

AWS, Azure cloud, and GCP

• Use Infrastructure as a Code to define & deploy cloud infrastructure.
• Translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs and
  
  

document all work using required standards, methods, and tools, including prototyping

tools where appropriate.

• Implement & manage automation and containerization technologies like Docker and
  
  

Kubernetes to streamline application deployment and scaling.

• Implement cloud-based network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and
  
  

performance.

• Review and optimize cloud environments to ensure adherence to Information Security
  
  

policies and industry best practices.

• Contribute to Business Continuity Plan by implementing or improving DR, HA and SRE
  
  

for critical cloud workloads.

• Deploy and manage on-premises and SaaS source code repositories including Azure
  
  

DevOps, Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket.

• Implement systems characterized by managed levels of risk, manageable business,
  
  

technical complexity, and meaningful impact with well-understood technology design

patterns.

• Manage availability of different service components to ensure they meet business needs
  
  

and performance targets.

• Create and interpret automation scripts for cloud-based CI/CD pipeline to
  
  

deploy/upgrade/patch web applications.

• Deploy & promote applications across environments (e.g., Dev, Quality, Staging,
  
  

Production)

• Deliver tasks based on project objectives; technically support projects to completion.
• Ensure deliverables are completed within target timeframes with consistently high-quality
• Prepare documentation and support transition of operational activities
  
  

Collaboration

• Collaborate with in Material IT groups (DWT, INF, EA) to implement base lines for IaaS
  
  

and PaaS platforms, adopting best practices and policies that support and optimize their

respective environments

• Collaborate with DevOps architect to support development teams with a full set of
  
  

DevOps ALM tools by leading the establishment of the right tooling and processes that will

result in a fully automated release management pipeline to include: the Automated build

process, environment setups, testing scripts, deployments, and production operational

metrics/debugging information (to target developers).

• Influential and effective advisor and contributor to change management, minimizing risks
  
  

that could be introduced to new or existing environments

• Safely execute changes in an interruption-free manner using secure modern infrastructure
  
  

capabilities

• Promote quality work by bringing multidisciplinary skillset to help connect the dots with IT
  
  

service owners, partners and vendors.

• Work closely with developers to ensure that applications are deployed, monitored, and
  
  

supported in a highly scalable and automated fashion.

• Document the process and tasks being taught so it can be standardized and cross trained
  
  

across the team

Operations

• Streamline DevOps processes throughout the organization, decreasing deployment time,
  
  

optimizing monitoring and reducing interruptions.

• Monitor & optimize costs with stakeholders to ensure IaaS & PaaS operations are within
  
  

budget.

• Participate in incident response activities on private and public cloud platforms.
• Innovate in the automation & reliability engineering space, making new solutions available
  
  

for use by our development community

• Optimize resource utilization on existing cloud workloads.
• Estimate costs for future cloud workloads based on project requirements.
• Assist with cloud ops for existing workloads (scaling, migration, decommission).
• Troubleshoot and identify problems across systems: including computing, storage,
  
  

networking, software, COTS and open-source packages and solutions, and cloud

computing, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

• Bring an automation mindset to eliminate mundane or repetitive tasks by providing
  
  

objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights and advice on DevOps initiatives.

• Analyze current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimize processes
• Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mind set by creating and
  
  

managing release pipelines for next generation application development efforts and

ongoing production operations.

• Evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy
  
  

and standards.

• Report on established KPIs to ensure performance is measured against expected
  
  

business outcomes.

Requirements

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, or Engineering (B.E/B
  
  

Tech/M. E/M Tech), or related field or equivalent experience.

• Certification on AWS cloud technologies is mandatory
• Good to have: Certification on GCP, Azure,; Certified Kubernetes administrator
  
  

Done it:

• 4 to 5 years of relevant experience in cloud-based infrastructure architecture,
  
  

administration and monitoring.

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of AWS
• Proven experience as DevOps engineer.
• Strong understanding of networking, cloud, compute, and storage.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Governance, focusing on application security, risk
  
  

management and collaboration.

• Experience in inter-cloud migration.
• Experience with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, PowerShell or Bash.
• Advanced experience with usage and management of Git version control
  
  

technologies (GitHub, Gitlab, AWS Commit etc.)

• Proven experience applying best practices for frontend and backend
  
  

infrastructure (web engines, relational databases, storage, network, disaster

recovery, high availability)

• Experience troubleshooting complex issues ranging from system resources to
  
  

application stack traces

Know It

• Hands on in GCP/Azure
• Experience with continuous Integration tools (TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Gitlab
  
  

CI/CD, AWS Code Pipeline)

• Working knowledge of automation service provisioning.
• Hands on experience with IAC tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform,
  
  

CloudFormation, Bicep, Typescript, Azure ARM etc.

• Hands on in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm,
  
  

AWS Fargate)

• Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management
• Secure systems & networks’ management through automation, capacity planning,
  
  

monitoring, performance tuning and testing

• You are aware of information security at large Networks, Docker security,
  
  

Kubernetes Security.

• Strong hardware and software diagnostic skills
  
  

Shown it

• Familiarity with web development experience and setup: Apache, Nginx etc.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum process using platforms like Jira/Confluence
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/EFK stack
• Demonstrable experience in converting complex business & security needs into
  
  

fit-for-purpose, straightforward solutions, with well-managed execution and non

interruptive transition to operations, as well as effective troubleshooting &

escalation handling.

• Demonstrated competencies in system administration. DevOps or systems
  
  

knowledge, security protocols for client/server environment.

• Experience supporting at least one of the following databases: MS-SQL server,
  
  

MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc.

• Working knowledge of related technologies including encryption, IPsec, VLANs,
  
  

VPNs, routing, firewalls, proxy services, LAN/WAN connectivity

Do it

• Experience on SCM tools like GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, AWS Code Commit,
  
  

Azure Repos etc.

• Experience in application and systems performance monitoring (Splunk, New
  
  

Relic, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch).

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Continuous application of skillsets in, cloud and hybrid environments adding
  
  

resiliency when introducing new and upcoming technologies.

• Experience with API Gee, Kong, or Kafka from an operational perspective will be a
  
  

good to have.

• Read and understand release notes and follow the deployment instructions
  
  

precisely to ensure zero defects in the deployment.

• Experience on open source/Linux will be good to have.
  
  

• A communicator, humble and patient individual working effectively with distributed
  
  

teams who is equally a mentor and a mentee

• A creative mindset that brings ideas to life by leveraging technologies in new ways that
  
  

could have high impact in every aspect of operations

• A technical player who is trusted to identify challenges and define how to overcome
  
  

them.

• A multi-tasker and flexible towards work timings, working in a fast-paced environment
  
  

without getting overwhelmed easily.

• Detail-oriented, always ready to put in the extra effort to deliver polished, well-formed
  
  

IT solutions for Material.

• Mindful of the employee experience - articulate, confident & well-spoken in all forms
  
  

of communication, comfortable to be the voice of our customer to Material IT, and the

face of Material IT to our customers.