Azure DevOps Engineer

at  Avanza Solutions

LOCATION DUBAI. JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are seeking a mid to senior-level Azure Cloud and DevOps Engineer to deliver cloud engineering services to company Enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will have strong, hands-on technical skills, with the experience and consulting skills to understand, shape, and deliver against our customers’ requirements.
· Design and implement Azure cloud solutions that are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable, and cost-optimized.
· Build out new customer cloud solutions using cloud-native components.
· Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
· Write application/Infra deployment pipeline using Azure DevOps or other industry standard deployment and configuration tools.
· Usage of cloud foundational architecture and components to build out automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting services frameworks.
· Work with developers to identify necessary Azure resources and automate their provisioning.
· Document automation processes.
· Create and document a disaster recovery plan.
· Strong communication skills along with customer-facing experience.
· Respond to customer support requests within response time SLAs.
· Troubleshoot performance degradation or loss of service as time-critical incidents.
· Ownership of issues, including collaboration with other teams and escalation.
· Participate in a shared on-call rotation.
· Support the success and development of others in the team.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

· Engineer with 4-12 years of experience in the Azure cloud along with writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and building application/Infra deployment pipelines.
· Expert knowledge of Azure Redhat Openshift (ARO).
· Expert knowledge of Azure Products & Services, Scaling, Load Balancing, etc.
· Expert knowledge of Azure DevOps, GitHub, ArgoCD, Pipelines, and CI/CD.
· Expert level knowledge of Terraform and scripting (Python/Shell/PowerShell).
· Good understanding of APIM in Azure.
· Working knowledge in containerization technologies like Kubernetes, AKS, etc.
· Working knowledge of Azure networking, like VPN gateways, VNets, etc.
· Working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating systems – experience with supporting and troubleshooting stability and performance issues.
· Working knowledge of automating the management and enforcement of policies using Azure Policies or similar.
· Good understanding of other DevOps tools like Ansible, Jenkins, etc.
· Good understanding of Deployment Strategies In DevOps like Canary (most preferred), Continuous Deployment, Blue-Green Deployment.
· Good understanding of the design of native Cloud applications, Cloud application design patterns, and practices.
· Azure Admin, Azure DevOps, terraform certified candidates preferred.
Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 12 month

Please refer the Job description for details