Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Our Client, is seeking a Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote
Position Type: Contract
Job Summary:
The Sr. DevOps Engineer will lead in architecting, engineering and operating production/development environments and Azure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, as well as mentoring staff, managing team workloads, tracking projects, and driving operational optimization initiatives. This role will be 80% technical hands-on engineering and 20% management and operations optimization.
Responsibilities:

• Architecting, implementing, and managing Azure production and development environments to support enterprise applications and products.
• Azure cloud infrastructure administration and engineering.
• Creating and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, with deployments to Azure Kubernetes Services, and APIM.
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation.
• Application and infrastructure incident response.
• Project management.
• Azure cost analysis and optimization.
• Automation and operational process optimization.

• 10+ years' experience in DevOps Engineering, 5+ years in Azure Cloud engineering and 2+ years mentoring/leading engineers. Candidate must be fully hands-on with recent Azure experience.
• Mastery of Azure DevOps CI/CD, building, and deploying to Kubernetes.
• Mastery of Kubernetes, preferred experience with ArgoCD and Istio.
• Terraform Infrastructure as Code, Ansible configuration automation at scale.
• Azure DevOps and Azure Engineer certification or comparable hands-on experience.
• State Management, and Cloud Orchestration.
• Mastery in written/verbal skills.
• Mastery with contemporary engineering process (e.g. agile, scrum, Kanban).
• Mastery of SQL and Database architecture, administration, and performance management.
• 4-year degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.