Azure DevOps Engineer

Description

Duration: 9 months of contract, possible extension

Work Schedule: M-F 8-5

Work location: Allentown, PA

Summary:

• The DevOps Engineer helps increase speed of delivery, improve quality/security of code, and optimize processes for the development team.
• The DevOps Engineer is responsible for identifying the bottlenecks of various development and delivery processes, working with team members to improve them, and improving the overall experience of developers.
• They are responsible for infrastructure-as-code deployment tooling and supporting services on multiple cloud providers along with metrics and logging.

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with Tech Leads and developers of various teams to assess existing problems and come up with process improvement solutions.
• Identifies bottlenecks in coding development and deployment processes.
• Participates in planning delivery time, code quality, and process efficiency improvement projects.
• Executes on the plan by building coding standardizations and automating processes for the organization.
• Performs daily tasks such as environmental health checks, disk space monitoring, and environmental status reports.
• Maintains and grows knowledge of platform configuration management and troubleshooting.
• Actively participates in deploying application artifacts to appropriate target environments using the supported technologies and infrastructure.
• Surveys developers and technical members of the organization to understand their main pain points in the coding and development process.
• Collaborates with the rest of the DevOps team to deliver a consistent and holistic solution to the organization.

General:

• Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging/disruptive technologies.
• Wants to unleash inner self-starter and work in an environment that fosters entrepreneurial minds.
• Believes in a culture of brutal transparency and trust.
• Open to learning new ideas outside the scope of knowledge.

Required Skills:

• Excellent coding and scripting skills (Bash, Perl, Powershell) and experience with implementing high-scale cloud architectures using modern, cloud-based container platforms (PaaS/SaaS).
• Working knowledge of deployment automation solutions (i.e., Terraform, ADO).
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) and cluster management tools like Kubernetes.
• Experience with containers such as Docker, OpenShift.
• Experience with continuous integration and related tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, Maven, Ant, Git, Sonar, etc.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align the organization on decisions.
• Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply.
• Utilizes team collaboration to create innovative solutions efficiently.
• Experience as a DevOps or SRE Engineer on a cross-functional agile team preferred.

If interested, please forward your resume to OR call me on 703-889-6669.