Senior Cloud DevOps Azure Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud DevOps Azure Engineer

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Job Location: Remote (EST or CST only)

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# Positions: 3

Employment Type: W2

Candidate Constraints:

Duration:Long Term

# of Layers:0

Work Eligibility:All Work Authorizations are Permitted

Key Technology: Azure, DevOps, cloud, API

Job Responsibilities:

• We are looking for a DevOps Azure Engineer to work across multiple diverse businesses to deliver enterprise capabilities and solutions on Azure
• The perfect candidate will have previous public cloud experience delivering enterprise solutions within financial services including knowledge of the security and regulatory requirements.
• You will work in collaboration with cloud engineering, network, security, and risk management to deliver bank secured Azure solutions that meet security policies and standards.
• You will collaborate with developers in our Azure engineering team and lines of business to implement and continuously improve the framework and tools to support self-service automation of the platform. You will develop custom code in Jenkins, Groovy, Python and PowerShell to automate build and automate testing for the platform.
• You will have a strong passion for writing code to automate and integrate technologies and eliminate manual steps.
• You will work with our business developers and internal teams to maintain a backlog of features and integration enhancements to continue to automate the platform.
• You will develop code using our agile JIRA tools to manage a backlog of enhancements and bug‑fixes, managing source code in Stash and binaries in Nexus.
• You will also develop automated integration tests to run on our Jenkins CI (continuous integration) platform for test automation to help support bug‑free releases.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Azure DevOps experience in the following areas: Administration, Build and Release
• Azure Cloud Services and Tools Experience (GitHub, Terraform, Azure Data solutions, Azure PaaS solutions, Azure Pipelines, Visual Studio, AKS, Azure Monitor, Azure Functions)
• Strong programming skills with experience in API and Webhook development using Python, Ruby, PowerShell, and Shell scripting languages.
• Understand DR/BCP options and how they fit in overall application architecture.
• Understand Azure security features (data protection, authentication, RBAC, etc.)
• Understanding of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), handling public key and private key certificates in Azure environment for PaaS services and applications
• Strong network skills, with the ability to troubleshoot Azure, DNS, Azure connectivity, NSG, routing.
• Understand development concepts related to deploying platform and databases via CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensure that all cloud solutions follow internally defined security and compliance controls.
• Implement the enterprise cloud capability and enhance the cloud orchestration platform for automated provisioning, management and scalability of hosts, containers, applications, and cloud services.
• Develop/Consume APIs, SDKs and Webhook for multi‑directional integration of cloud orchestration platform with enterprise systems, DevOps tools, and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in cloud automation using native Azure CLI
• Ability to participate in fast‑paced DevOps Engineering teams within Scrum agile processes.
• A critical thinker with strong research and analytics skills
• Self‑motivated with a positive attitude and an ability to work independently and in a team.
• Able to work under tight timelines and deliver on complex problems.
• Work with segments, to assist with application migrations to Azure.

Required Skills:

• 3‑7 years of experience developing platform orchestration code in Azure Python SDK, Terraform and GitHub Runners
• Demonstrated knowledge of cloud provisioning and administration, cloud bursting, cloud interoperability, cloud disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, as well as performance measurement and monitoring in the cloud
• Experience in Azure RBAC and integration with Active Directory and PingFed
• Must be a self‑starter, demonstrated ability to take independent action to achieve results.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly with all levels within the team.
• Highly developed critical thinking, analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle and working in an Agile Scrum team
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skill.
• Desire to work collaboratively on a high‑performing team, to move the organization forward.
• Ability to lead and drive team members, to increase skillsets and knowledge across the team.

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