Job Description

Senior DevOps Engineer
Development Team

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize our Azure-based hosting solutions, ensuring uptime, scalability, and optimal performance
• Safeguard the consistent and reliable operation of our Windows Server and IIS environments, including Application Request Routing (ARR)
• Lead the transition to containerized applications, evaluating current processes, recommending best practices, and implementing container orchestration solutions
• Expertly guide the shift from Azure DevOps (ADO) to GitHub, ensuring a seamless transition without any disruptions
• Own the design, development, and maintenance of continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. Ensure rapid yet reliable code deployments
• Guarantee the utmost level of security across all platforms and application stages, from code to deployment to runtime.
• With agility and precision, discern the intricacies of existing environments, even in the absence of comprehensive documentation
• Grasp high-level, occasionally nebulous objectives and transform them into actionable and meticulous epics, ensuring that all necessary steps are thoughtfully planned and executed
• Utilize Datadog to monitor systems, diagnose issues, and set up insightful alerts
• Collaborate with teams using Jira, ensuring that all tasks are transparent, tracked, and efficiently executed
• Enhance and expand our current documentation, ensuring clarity and reducing future onboarding time
  
  

Required Experience

• Excellent English communication skills
  
• 5+ years experience in architecting, deploying, and managing complex enterprise grade solutions using the Microsoft technology stack (especially Azure, Windows, IIS/ARR) across various delivery modalities – mobile applications, web applications, APIs, web services, and UI frameworks
• Demonstrable experience transitioning traditional applications to containerized solutions such as Docker with the use of container schedulers like Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with both Azure DevOps and GitHub, with a particular emphasis on migrating between the two
• Deep understanding of modern security best practices and a proven track record of implementing security solutions
• Extensive experience in designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency with Datadog or similar monitoring and alerting tools
• Proven experience with Agile methodologies and tools like Jira
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to bridge gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A strong aptitude for tackling complex challenges with creative and effective solutions
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in environments that are constantly evolving and occasionally ambiguous
  
  

Desired Experience

• University degree in Business, MIS, or Engineering
  
• Knowledge of AWS
• Experience in building and managing Azure Microsoft SQL Server databases
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to serve as a liaison between development, IT, Customer Support teams
  
  

Additional Information

• Knowing your ideas are heard and matter – think big!
• You get to own your job and be recognized for your contributions
• Work with smart and creative people
• Making mistakes is human. Let’s learn from them. Be transparent!
• We recognize you as an individual – no presumptions or judgment. Be the extraordinary you!
• Typical week is 40-45 hours, Monday – Friday
• 15 days Paid Time Off (PTO), 1 floating day, 3 sick days, and designated national holidays

• Start: ASAP