Azure DevOps Engineer
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Azure DevOps Engineer to be based at their client’s office in Wokingham, UK.
This is a hybrid role you can work remotely in UK and attend Wokingham office 3 days per week.
This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
Key Responsibilities
- Analysing the technologies in use to plan possible improvements and upgrades.
- Participating in code development, app deployment, and infrastructure maintenance
- Taking part in project planning to share knowledge about system risks, infrastructure capabilities, and cost-vs-revenue ratios.
- Providing inputs for operation requirements regarding each release.
- Identifying better testing practices to minimize errors during deployments.
- Setting up automated updates to be deployed into production via configuration management software.
- Applying automation to processes wherever possible.
- Performing routine maintenance and troubleshooting to avoid bottlenecks in the production environment.
- Developing recommendations on how to boost performance with possible modifications and alternative solutions.
- Assisting in the operative management of staff according to the best DevOps practices.
- Mentoring team members when utilizing continuous CD/CI capabilities of the Azure DevOps platform.
- Monitoring customer experience through corresponding metrics and indicators.
- Monitor application alerts/dashboard and logs to mitigate if there are any issues.
- Subscribe and listen to infrastructure alert to identify potential issues and fix it before it occurs.
- Scale up/Scale down application and its infrastructure as required.
- Backup/Archive/Purge application data from the storage meeting application requirement.
- Manage MLOps environment and provide infrastructure needed for data scientist/forecaster to do model training, inference run, research & development and data sources in ML datastore needed in both non prod and production environment.
Key Requirements
- 5-7 years of relevant experience in a DevOps role.
- Good knowledge of Azure PaaS services and know how to leverage them for cloud solutions
- Strong skills in Azure networking, such as configuring virtual networks, firewalls, load balancers, and VPNs.
- Experience in migrating and transforming existing systems to the cloud using Azure tools and best practices.
- Proficiency in Azure DevOps and know how to use them for continuous integration, continuous delivery, pipelines, and Git version control.
- Experience in using Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform/ARM) and Git source control to provision and deploy cloud resources.
- Worked on yaml scripting and helm charts
- Strong PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Python scripting skills for automating tasks and processes.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights for performance and reliability management.
- Understanding security best practices, including role-based access control (RBAC), Azure Policy, and managing secrets with tools like Azure Key Vault.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with development, operations, and security teams, with strong communication skills to drive DevOps culture.
- Specialization in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Strong problem-solving abilities to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to DevOps processes.
- Azure DevOps Engineer cert is plus.
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