Summary: The DevOps Engineer will be a part of the global IT Department and is responsible for managing, supporting, and maintaining hybrid cloud infrastructure in X-Press Feeders and its affiliates. The successful candidate will be working together with the Network, Security and Application development team members to administer, manage and support on-prem and Microsoft Azure cloud systems and workloads.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Design and development of innovative solutions in the cloud, deliver cloud migration projects, and support development teams with DevOps technologies.
- Design and build of public cloud (Azure) and on-prem datacentre infrastructure.
- Manage Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Implement infrastructure compliance and security.
- Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD).
- Write scripts for service quality analysis, monitoring and operation.
- Investigate and resolve technical issues by deploying updates/fixes.
- Quality control and management of the code base.
Requirements:
Education & Certification
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent.
- Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification is mandatory.
- Microsoft Azure DevOps (AZ-400) certification is preferred.
Knowledge & Working Experience
- Minimum 3 years experience in design & build of Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Need to have deep knowledge of DevOps practices and processes; prior working experience as DevOps Engineer.
- Sound knowledge in Kubernetes (AKS), Terraform, Azure Bicep/CLI, Powershell, Git, Docker, Linux Sys Admin (RHEL, Ubuntu), Azure Networking, Azure Application Gateway, Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Jenkins.
- Demonstrable experience in Microsoft Azure Platform As A Service (PaaS) products such as Azure AppServices, Logic Apps, Functions and other Serverless services.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server, SQL (Azure SQL MI), Cosmos DB, kSQL.
- Understanding of Identity and Access Management products such as Sailpoint, Azure AD.
- Proficient in Microsoft Visio and documentation.
- Experience in Confluent Cloud and Kafka will have added advantage.
Personal traits
- Have to stay on top of industry trends and best practices whilst recognizing opportunities for automation, design, development, and other solutions in a comprehensive manner to boost operational efficiency.
- Extensive collaboration is required to yield good results. Everything ranging from technical analyses to deployment and monitoring is handled, with the focus to enhance overall system reliability and scalability.
- Proven analytical and problem solving ability.
- Ability to multi-task, work well under pressure and enjoy being a team player.
