Senior DevOps Consultant

Work on a greenfield AI transformation programme, building Azure cloud services from scratch. Actively promoting DevOps ways of working and SRE best practices within teams. Work with DevOps/Platform Engineers, Developers, Architecture and Security to design, plan, implement and release necessary changes according to the needs of the business. Working with other DevOps/Platform Engineers in providing templates and knowledge that facilitates smooth automation process through out a project lifecycle. Continuously drive improvements in processes, tooling, and system architecture of the underlying infrastructure and capabilities. Work on everything from transitioning on-prem services into Azure cloud (PaaS and IaaS services), helping move to and maintain orchestrated container-based service architecture (Azure Kubernetes and Docker). Add, improve and maintain modules in our Terraform & PowerShell module library. Create and maintain an enterprise grade monitoring and alerting solutions of applications, networks, data and infrastructure services. Assist in the creation of reports/dashboards for usage and up-time. Manage and monitor system health to ensure that issues are quickly identified and resolved. Collaborate with the IT operations and development teams to plan and execute system changes e.g., security and audit controls as required by the business or compliance requirements Automate build and release manual activities using DevOps best practices.

Hands-on working experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), Security, Networking and Azure DevOps Pipelines. Hands-on working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Packer, Terraform and programming and/or scripting language such as PowerShell, Bash, SQL, KQL. Hands-on knowledge on the usage of CI/CD processes including the integration of security & code quality tools. Hands-on experience in engineering and automation of container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker. Hands-on experience in designing, implementing, testing, and securing APIs. Hands-on experience implementing security controls across data, infrastructure, and applications primarily in Azure. Hands-on knowledge in logging, monitoring and alerting tools. Hands-on knowledge in setup, maintaining and supporting Kubernetes environments using cloud providers specifically Azure. Hands-on experience implementing WAF solutions.

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