Azure DevOps Engineer

Must Have skills: Azure DevOps AKS Git Repositories Docker Microservices Python Linux Administration Shell Scripting Role:: Azure DevOps Engineer Position ::Contract to hire Location -Oakland, CA or Alpharetta, GA Requirements: The candidate should know how to create an Azure DevOps pipelines to script repeatable processes to perform every day and less common configuration management, build and deployment tasks. As such they shall be familiar with DevOps agent tasks to effectively get a desired result. Good engineering skills are important so that all work products are documented and templatized to get wide adoption in the team and developer community. The incumbent should be able to understand issues that are being faced by project teams trying to utilize Azure for the first time and be able to translate these requirements into designs that use Azure services to achieve a desired outcome. The candidate should have solid understanding of microservice architectures , Azure Kubernetes Services , Azure App. Services , Azure API Management , Azure Key Vault , and Azure App. Config . Deep knowledge of other more esoteric Azure services such AI and analytics is much less important. Ability to spot and trade off solutions against cost will be a helpful skill. Experience working on various middleware application servers and containers from monolithic to modern versions . Apply middleware infrastructure automation code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning capacity specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health. The candidate must also have some Shell/Perl/Python scripting language experience and be able to use this to implement changes in pipelines . Maintains technical documentation on any implementations , README files up-to-date, and status pages of the projects along with Release team handover. Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams to define, prioritize, sequence and scope middleware around business and functional areas. Accurately scopes effort, identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders. Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring , capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management. Perform impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades, patching, migration and hot fixes. Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing projects across various environments ( Regression , Performance , Production and Post-production ). Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis , and development phases. Familiarity on common issues that causes builds/deployments to fail such as out of memory, disk full, missing libraries or security certificates etc. Proven track record of handling & troubleshooting various critical Production and nonproduction applications end to end & infrastructure technical issues , providing comprehensive root cause. Its preferable that they know Terraform for configuration management knowledge of other Config. Management tooling is useful. It will be paramount to be able to pass on knowledge to the immediate DevOps team and our customers to increase the overall cadence of Azure adoption . Having worked in a DevOps team before they shall be familiar with the usual agile team rituals . This list is not all-inclusive, and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned. Skills/Experience: 5-8 years experience preferred. Required Skills: Linux Administration Shell scripting Data Serialization Language - YAML Podman (Podman Admin, Podman file scripting) (Or Docker /Container) Jenkins Admin & CICD Pipeline Apache Administration Rundeck (Administration and jobs development) Azure Fundamentals (Microsoft Training AZ 900) Azure Devops (Repos, Pipelines, Feeds) Azure Front Door deployment support Azure APIM deployment support Azure AKS/Kubernetes Helm Charts GitOps - Argo CD Azure App Services deployment Support Azure Data Factory (ADF) deployment support Ansible GitHub Repo - Admin GitHub Actions Datadog - Operator (logging and tracing) Desired Skills: Python scripting Weblogic (Administration and Deployment) GitHub Repo - Developer GitHub Advance Security ODS/LDAP Administration SiteMinder Administration Terraform Degree Requirements: Bachelors Degree in Engineering Preferred.