Direct Client - Sr. Azure Cloud DevOps Engineer ( Sr. Site Reliability Engineer )

Key Responsibilities:

• Automate repetitive tasks (Eliminate toil)
• Seek opportunities and implement solutions to improve site reliability (reducing Mean Time to Diagnosis, Mean Time to Resolution, System Self-healing, etc.)
• Participate in On-Call production support
• Support Software Releases (CI/CD pipeline support, infrastructure, automation, process improvement.)
• Vulnerability Management (Patching systems and implementing security controls in compliance with Global Security)
• Create and maintain systems and infrastructure documentation
• Plan and execute on prioritized project tasks

Required Experience:

• Coding and Operations experience (8+ years combined)
• Designing, supporting and deploying mission critical products or services (5+ years)
• Operating complex, large-scale Enterprise guest-facing Applications or web sites (5+ years)
• Deploying containerized workloads into Kubernetes, Service Fabric (3+ years)
• Public cloud experience such as Azure, AWS, GCP (5+ years)
• Writing and maintaining Configuration as Code (5+ years)
• Worked in an environment that implemented Agile or LEAN principals (5+ years)

• 4-8 years of professional industry experience with software engineering.
• 3-5 years of software engineering and design at high volume or large scale
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field.

• Aptitude to pick up new technologies and trends.
• Experience with a variety of build, deployment, and CI tools such as Jenkins, Webpack, Ansible, Puppet, Github and Octopus Deploy.
• Experience automating deployments with Github.
• Experience with tools enabling automated testing and integration.
• Expertise in Linux and Windows system installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, preventative maintenance, capacity planning, monitoring, and security procedures.
• Experience installing and configuring Azure services using Terraform.
• Experience in at least two relevant scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Perl, Shell, PowerShell, etc.)
• Experience hardening and maintaining secure systems (Safe Harbor or PCI experience a plus!)
• Proven ability to participate with other functional teams in systems integration and design including writing operational specifications, test plans and requirements management with attention to detail
• Ability to produce system documentation, including writing requirements, operational specifications, system architecture, test plans and as-built documentation, all with attention to detail
• Ability to build strong relationships and influence others across the organization
• Demonstrated knowledge of Agile/Lean methodologies
• Experience working with ITIL and Service Management best practices is a plus