Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer/YAML Expertise - Hybrid

Seeking Azure DevOps Engineer with experience working with cloud platforms and has a passion for automation and developing DevOps best practices. This person will drive DevOps automation and containerization strategies that align with DevOps principles and standards. DevOps engineer will collaborate with Product owners, developers, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers and operations to plan, design, test and deliver pipelines and infrastructure using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model.

Description

Hybrid - *HQ preferred* but open to – Winchester, Pensacola, San Diego- Need someone local to these areas

• Potential for conversion to FTE
  
  

Key Requirements

5 years of experience building CI/CD Pipelines in YAML is ESSENTIAL!

Experience Building deployment pipelines in Azure ADO.

5-10 years of Azure DevOps

Security or DevSecOps is NOT needed

YAML is the most important skill set.

Responsibilities

• Hands on automation skills designing, building, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code of enterprise applications
• Build and support highly available CICD tools for pipelines and related integrations
• Design, build, and implement reusable YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps while adhering to best practices
• Perform analysis of DevOps practices, identify gaps and impediments for continuous integration and delivery
• Engage with information Security and augment the CI/CD framework with DevSecOps and standardized security tools and controls
• Develop and apply quality controls and gates to the build, test, and deploy process while establishing Definition of Ready and Definition of Done to ensure quality of delivery
• Be a member of Center of Excellence for DevOps practices and develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers
• Provide guidance, coaching, training on build, test, and release management best practices
• Collaborate on and provide input into the CICD roadmap, identify gaps and dependencies
• Onboard agile product teams to the CICD framework and perform DevOps health assessment on pipelines, identify gaps and execute recommendations
• Work directly with business leadership to understand data requirements; propose and develop solutions that enable effective decision-making and drives business objectives
• Perform other duties as assigned
  
  

Required

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications, Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent experience
• 5 years hands on experience with Microsoft Azure or similar Cloud native offerings
• 5 years experience in creating continuous integration and delivery pipelines leveraging cloud native architectures on Microsoft Azure Cloud
• 5 years’ Experience with agile delivery, SAFe, and DevOps frameworks
• 5 years’ Experience with Azure DevOps Tools for plan, build, test, release and monitor
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell scripting, Bash, YAML, Json, GIT, Rest API, and Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates
• Experience with Git flow branching strategy
• Hands on experience with implementing standards and best practices for the CI/CD framework
• Knowledge of security scanning/monitoring tools and integration with pipeline
• Extensive experience with scripting and debugging on Linux and Windows environments
• Understanding of Test Automation tools and scripts to facilitate Test Driven Development
• Experience with Automated Change Management using modernized solutions like ServiceNow
  
  

Desired

• Microsoft® Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Developer Associate
• Experience with Dynamics CRM platform
• Experience with Microservices deployment and release management
• Demonstrated understanding of ADLS, ADF, Databricks, and SQL is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 customization, configuration, deployment, and usage (experience migrating Dynamics from environment to environment is a plus)
• Experience using Azure DevOps REST API to enhance DevOps practices.
  
  

If you are interested or have any references please share resume at mukul@brightmindsol.com.