Senior Azure Cloud Engineer (DevOps, Ukraine)

Purpose Of The Job

We are looking for a professional Azure Engineer with DevOps experience who specializes in designing, implementing, and managing the development and deployment processes using Microsoft Azure and DevOps principles. They have a deep understanding of Azure services and tools, as well as expertise in implementing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring and troubleshooting applications and infrastructure. They are skilled in using Azure DevOps tools like Azure Pipelines, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, and Azure Monitor. Additionally, they have knowledge of configuration management tools, security best practices, and compliance requirements. Their role involves collaborating with development teams, ensuring efficient software delivery, and maintaining documentation and training for Azure DevOps processes. Overall, an Azure Engineer with DevOps experience combines Azure expertise with DevOps principles to enable seamless and efficient software development and deployment on the Azure platform.

Main Tasks And Responsibilities

Design, architect, and implement scalable and reliable cloud solutions on the Azure platform, leveraging a variety of Azure services and technologies.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define architecture designs, and develop technical solutions that meet business objectives.

Lead the implementation of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, automating build, test, and deployment processes for cloud-native and hybrid applications.

Define infrastructure as code (IaC) using ARM templates, Terraform, or other relevant technologies to ensure consistency, repeatability, and scalability in deployments.

Conduct architecture reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor team members on best practices for Azure cloud architecture and DevOps methodologies.

Stay updated on emerging Azure technologies, trends, and best practices, and continuously evaluate and recommend new solutions to enhance our cloud capabilities.

Education, Skills And Experience

MUST HAVE:

5+ years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical cloud architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations.

Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.

Knowledge of all components of a solution architecture.

Strong client-facing consultative skills, able to act as a customer advocate.

Experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) technologies.

Familiar with one or more server-side scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash).

Understanding of design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for cloud applications.

Demonstrate knowledge of Azure DevOps and setting up CI/CD pipelines.

Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).

Hands-on experience on provisioning and configuring IaaS and PaaS services like virtual machines, app services, databases, storage account, virtual network, function app, data factory, key vault, service bus, event grid, databricks etc.

Expertise with Infrastructure as Code automation tools and languages (Terraform, ARM, PowerShell, etc.) is highly desired.

Experience with setting up Logging and Monitoring solutions using Log Analytics workspace, App Insights and Azure Monitor.

Would Be a Plus

Experience in software development using C#/.NET