Senior Azure Devops Engineer (Remote)

Project Description:

You will be part of the Future Factory team tasked to transform and equip the large Manufacturer with digital solutions, skills and knowledge to strengthen World Class Manufacturing for competitive advantage. You will be responsible to make sure the standard solutions and services deployed integrate with the existing landscape in a proper and documented way.

Responsibilities:

Incident management and root cause analysis

Coordination and communication within the dev teams

Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools

Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs

Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible

Setting up tools and required infrastructure

Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation

Mandatory Skills Description:

Bachelor’s or Master ‘s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent experience

5 years of experience as a DevOps/support engineer supporting heavily complex Kubernetes architectures.

Experience templating external Kubernetes libraries for internal use including Helm, Kustomize.

Ability to transform Kubernetes manifests from Helm & Kustomize to plain Yaml, and vice versa.

Ability to package and maintain platform components like Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, etc.

Ability to modularise Terraform resource deployments, maintain existing Terraform infrastructure

In-depth knowledge of Linux administration.

Advanced knowledge of IT software, hardware, and network setup.

Advanced knowledge of cloud networking – VNETs, Subnets, NAT, DNS, Application Firewalls, Network Firewalls

Hands-on experience with GitOps, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Stack HCI/Edge Cluster, Hyper-V Cluster, Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL, Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)

Extensive experience in resolving IT queries.

Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics (creating videos is good-to-have but not mandatory).

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Proficient in ArgoCD & understands GitOps practices

Hands-on experience templating application deployments

Technologies We Work With (key words):

Cloud: Azure

Azure Resources: Azure Stack HCI, SQL Servers, Managed SQL Servers, PIM, Function Apps, Azure DNS, Azure API Management, ACR, Azure AD (Service Principals, Enterprise Applications, App Registrations, Groups, Roles), AKS, Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, KeyVaults, VNETs, Subnets

Containerisation Technologies: Kubernetes, k3s, Docker, Helm, Kustomize

Kubernetes Technologies: ArgoCD, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Nginx Ingress Controller, Cert Manager, External Secrets, External DNS, Velero

Programming & Scripting: Python, Bash, Jsonnet (VERY NICE TO HAVE), BICEP

Infrastructure As Code: Terraform, Packer, Azure DevOps Pipelines, BICEP

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

Certified Azure Administrator Associate/ Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate

Experience in Manufacturing

Jsonnet

Azure Stack HCI

Experience as a developer with Python / JS/TS / C#, or even better – Jsonnet

Languages:

English: C1 Advanced