Rackspace: Azure DevOps Engineer II/III

Summary

• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field.
• Leads others to solve complex problems.
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.
• May provide functional leadership to teams or projects.
• Encourages others to listen attentively and engage with the speaker by asking appropriate open‑ended questions; reflects on and reiterates key points and clarifies messages to help others reach agreement.
• Monitors non‑verbal reactions of others to identify and respond to areas of interest or concern.
• Ensures all viewpoints have been heard and discussed before reaching conclusions, offering guidance or asserting own views.
• Influences and coaches others across the business unit/function to work independently and identify areas for improvement in work processes.
• Encourages and motivates people to achieve high standards of excellence by consistently raising the bar and coaching others to achieve results.
• Sets challenging and realistic goals for others; proactively considers the business unit/function’s goals to prevent conflicts of interests and communicates goals to teams.
• Provides guidance and expertise to analyze data and patterns and assess the root cause of complex, non‑routine problems.
• Collaborates with others across disciplines to brainstorm and execute solutions to the most complex, uncommon problems.
• Guides the execution of solutions for complex, non‑routine issues; redirects solution implementation if desired results were not originally met.
• Creatively develops tools, visual aids and other original content to support the understanding/education of complex and technical information (e.g., legal, operational risk, and regulatory data).
• Guides others on the best practices and approaches for creating clear, concise and organized communication materials to convey technical concepts in a user‑friendly way.
• Challenges others to bring fresh and creative perspective to differentiating technical communications and ensuring comprehension and ease‑of‑use for various audiences.
• Exceeds customers’ expectations by listening for unexpressed needs; connects customer needs to relevant service offerings and new technology.
• Leads others in resolving technical issues in a timely manner; follows up with customers to ensure satisfaction.
• Partners with the business to integrate new technologies into business solutions; creates and communicates a vision of the technology requirements for the future state of the business.
• Prioritizes workload and ensures that deadlines are successfully met; delegates or seeks additional staff when necessary.
• Identifies short‑ and long‑term barriers to completing project plans and takes corrective action to meet deliverable objectives.
• Manages multifaceted projects or assignments, such as projects that have several separate components, with minimal error and without missing important deliverables.

Knowledge

• DevOpsSkill Baseline Coding
• Scripting/ Programing language/ Configuration Management/ Container (1 or more at 100 level)
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• VCS (Git Based VSC)
• Family with commit, branch, merge, review process
• Understand pre/post hook
• Design/implement branching strategy (e.g., git flow, GitHub flow)
• Design/implement group development collaboration process (access control, code review/approval, integration with other CI tools)
• Artifact Repository
• Familiar with one of the popular antifactory management tools
• CI/CD tools
• Implement CI services (VCS, antifactory repo, build, release)
• Design/implement CI/CD pipeline
• Operating System familiar with Linux or Windows OS
• Cloud Skill Baseline
• Automation
• IaC
• Use cloud IaC language to implement cloud resources or operation process
• Use orchestration tools to organize IaC code and inject configurations
• CI/CD
• Implement CI services (VSC, Artifacts repo, build service pipeline service)
• Implement CI/CD pipeline to build/deploy infrastructure or application
• Design/implement best practice CI/CD
• Landing Zone (Multi Account Framework)
• Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Security
• Networking Compute (VM, Container platform, Function)
• Virtual Machine workload
• Implement serverless solution for operational purpose
• Data storage, Database
• Configuration management
• Secret Management
• Monitoring and Logging
• Message Queues