Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - Dublin, Ireland - Version 1

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    Full time
    Description

    Job Description

    Your responsibilities will include :

  • Designing, building, test and run significant components within a modern digital service platform.
  • A focus on automation of component deployment will be required.
  • Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective and minimise lock-in.
  • Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning, user story/requirement creation.
  • Implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software to production.
  • Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance.
  • Using public cloud platform(s) to solve business problems (Azure, GCP is a desirable).
  • Applying configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and container orchestration tooling to solve business problems.
  • In a customer-facing role you will implement DevOps processes and tooling for the delivery of IaaS and PaaS services using IaC in the public cloud.
  • Automate the configuration and management of cloud workloads in Azure.
  • Build toolchains to support automated builds, tests, and deployments of applications to public cloud platforms
  • Contribute to technical decisions in a collaborative team environment.
  • Qualifications

    Essential criteria :

  • 7 years' experience in Information Technology with 5 years DevOps experience with a focus on Microsoft Azure
  • Strong demonstratable experience with Azure DevOps (or equivalent CI/CD tooling), scripting languages, and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, PowerShell DSC
  • Experiencing building and configuring cloud services via Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Good knowledge on Microsoft Cloud adoption framework for Azure
  • One or more of the following Azure certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Experience of implementing modern CI/CD processes for releasing software
  • Experience in implementing and advocating for DevOps methodologies and processes.
  • Broad experience building and configuring Azure IaaS and PaaS service (i.e., App Service, VNETs, NSGs, SQL databases, Service Bus, Function Apps, Key Vault, Logic Apps)
  • Experience of platform/infrastructure architecture and design best practices, e.g. networking, security, and governance best practices
  • Self-driven approach at work with an intrinsic motivation to excel and take ownership of tasks and projects.
  • Azure Cloud Ops & build pipeline Azure Networking (vNets, firewalls AZLB's etc.)
  • Azure Components (AKS, ACR, Key Vault, App Gateway, Azure SQL, API Manager)
  • Azure Devops (pipelines, repos, releases etc.)
  • Hashicorp Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Monitoring (Azure monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics and Dynatrace)
  • Ideally exposure to (data Center) Migration Projects
  • Desirable Exposure to Node.
  • JS based micro services using RESTful and gRPC comms.