Sr. DevOps Engineer - Azure

• An Embedded DevOps Engineer works directly within engineering teams from the earliest planning stages through execution.

• Pilot currently active with ICP and P+ teams

• Expanding to two additional teams in January

• Long term objective: establish a scalable embedded DevOps model

• Fully embedded within an assigned engineering team (initially ICP)

• 1:1 pairing with developers for hands on knowledge transfer

• Engineering teams own their tickets (no centralized DevOps queue)

• Drive automation, process improvement, and efficiency

• Operate within a buddy system to ensure shared learning and support

• Opportunity to build greenfield automation and define CI/CD standards

• High visibility and significant organizational impact

• Ability to influence the direction of the DevOps function early in its evolution

• Over the last 5 years, which cloud platform have you worked in most frequently as your primary environment? CHOOSE ONE o Microsoft Azure (primary platform for most projects) o AWS (primary), with some Azure exposure o Azure and AWS used roughly equally o Primarily another cloud provider o Limited hands-on cloud experience

• Which statement best describes your Azure experience? CHOOSE ONE o Designed and built Azure environments end-to-end o Regularly deploy and manage workloads in Azure o Support or maintain Azure environments built by others o Limited hands-on Azure experience o No Azure experience

• Which Azure services have you worked with directly? (Select all that apply) CAN SELECT MULTIPLE ANSWERS HERE o Azure App Services o Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) o Azure Virtual Machines o Azure Storage / Networking o Azure Monitor / Application Insights o Azure DevOps o None of the above

• How have you primarily used Terraform? CHOOSE ONE o Authoring and maintaining Terraform modules for Azure o Modifying existing Terraform configurations for Azure o Applying Terraform written by others o Reviewing Terraform plans o No Terraform experience

• What best describes your experience with Ansible? CHOOSE ONE o Designed and wrote Ansible playbooks o Regularly modify and run playbooks o Use playbooks created by others o Limited exposure o No experience

• When deploying applications in Azure, which approach have you used most often? CHOOSE ONE o Managed services (App Services, Functions, PaaS) o Kubernetes (AKS) o A mix of both, depending on the use case o Mostly AWS equivalents

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship not available., * Terraform (non negotiable must have)

• CI/CD pipeline creation, management, and deployment
• Azure preferred over AWS
• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Familiarity with observability platforms: Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic (nice-to-have)
• Azure Currently - can come from a mixed cloud environment but 60% of their time must be spent in Azure
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Build CI/CD Pipelines
• IaC
• PaaS strongly preferred

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

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