Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Hands on automation skills designing, building, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code of enterprise applications
• Build and support highly available CICD tools for pipelines and related integrations
• Design, build, and implement reusable YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps while adhering to best practices
• Perform analysis of DevOps practices, identify gaps and impediments for continuous integration and delivery
• Engage with information Security and augment the CI/CD framework with DevSecOps and standardized security tools and controls
• Develop and apply quality controls and gates to the build, test, and deploy process while establishing Definition of Ready and Definition of Done to ensure quality of delivery
• Be a member of Center of Excellence for DevOps practices and develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers
• Provide guidance, coaching, training on build, test, and release management best practices
• Collaborate on and provide input into the CICD roadmap, identify gaps and dependencies
• Onboard agile product teams to the CICD framework and perform DevOps health assessment on pipelines, identify gaps and execute recommendations
• Work directly with business leadership to understand data requirements; propose and develop solutions that enable effective decision-making and drives business objectives
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications, Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent experience

• 10+ years hands on experience with Microsoft Azure or similar Cloud native offerings

• 10+ years experience in creating continuous integration and delivery pipelines leveraging cloud native architectures on Microsoft Azure Cloud

• 10+ years’ Experience with agile delivery, SAFe, and DevOps frameworks

• 10+ years’ Experience with Azure DevOps Tools for plan, build, test, release and monitor

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell scripting, Bash, YAML, Json, GIT, Rest API, and Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates

• Experience with Git flow branching strategy

• Hands on experience with implementing standards and best practices for the CI/CD framework

• Knowledge of security scanning/monitoring tools and integration with pipeline

• Extensive experience with scripting and debugging on Linux and Windows environments

• Understanding of Test Automation tools and scripts to facilitate Test Driven Development

• Experience with Automated Change Management using modernized solutions like ServiceNow

Desired:

• Microsoft® Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Developer Associate
• Experience with Dynamics CRM platform
• Experience with Microservices deployment and release management
• Demonstrated understanding of ADLS, ADF, Databricks, and SQL is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 customization, configuration, deployment, and usage (experience migrating Dynamics from environment to environment is a plus)
• Experience using Azure DevOps REST API to enhance DevOps practices