Azure Devops Lead

Deploys enterprise scaled resources that can be leveraged across technology organizations. Deploys scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure using automation tooling for routine operation tasks. Manages implementation and the ongoing operation of cloud services following approved designs, adherence to patterns, security requirements and certifies all logging and monitoring are active for security and compliance. Uses automation, configuration management and deployment tools to manage production environment, ensuring standardization and adherence to established controls and patterns. Works with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices. Enhances existing deployment processes and Infrastructure as Code scripts to improve automation, efficiency, consistency and adherence to security and audit requirements and control. Maintains comprehensive and systematic configuration, lifecycle and security management of servers. Ensures cloud services and toolsets are deployed leveraging best practices and documentation. Acts as the first point of contact to business application owners and building bridge between them and cloud team. Fosters the adoption of Cloud environment and deployments. Works with other Cloud engineers and Architects, application and business owners to deploy and improve the cloud environment. Acts as the first point of contact for application and business owners. Implements or suggests strategies in IaC, CI/CD for leveraging faster and secure deployments. Escalates unresolved issues accordingly. Collaborates with engineers, providing assistance, guidance and training as required. Participates in team activities such as daily standups, peer code reviews, design collaboration efforts and rotating on-call process. Able to provide international and 24/7 support via on-call duties and/or working a flexible off-hours schedule for planned and unplanned maintenance.

• Requires a bachelor’’s or foreign equivalent degree in management information systems, computer science, engineering or a related field and 5 years of experience deploying resources and managing infrastructure through both manual and automated pipelines in an IT infrastructure and operational environment.
• In lieu of a bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience as stated, will accept a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 3 years of experience as stated.
• Also requires 3 years of experience: maintaining resources in cross platform environments; performing cloud deployments in Azure using IaC; deploying resources using Terraform; using GitHub and GitHub Actions; building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services; building automated cloud infrastructure across multiple Production and Non-Production environments; and scripting and automating builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects.
• Requires 2 years of experience: using the CI/CD pipelines; using YAML/YML for GitHub actions; using Azure CLI; troubleshooting Azure Cloud environment; using PowerShell; automating deployments; and working in Enterprise applications development.
• Also requires 1 year of experience working with at least 3 of the following: DNS, LAN, WAN, Firewalls, File systems, or IAM. Experience may be, but need not be, acquired concurrently. Position reports to Plano, TX office.
• Telecommuting permitted in accordance with company policy, but must live within commuting distance of stated office.