Senior Azure Cloud Specialist at DigiOutsource

Purpose of the role

• A member of our DevOps team needs to work closely with development and infrastructure to ensure fast and reliable continuous integration and to help facilitate the move to the cloud. DevOps is part of the technology department and as such it is expected that a candidate has a passion for technology and is always seeking to increase their knowledge and skills.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Providing leadership and accountability for work you undertake
• Articulating your work and ideas
• Adapting to fast-changing business requirements in a dynamic environment
• Taking on ideas and responding to feedback from the business and other technical experts
• Researching and implementing new technologies within the DevOps space to improve the process of code deployment to our environments, seeking to eliminate inefficiency using relevant technology solutions
• Following a source control culture within the configuration of servers and applications where environment configurations are stored in code for a fully automated process.
• Participating in a 24/7 support roster to support applications after hours, training other DevOps team members to resolve issues and reduce the dependency on yourself or other tech teams after hours.
• Taking part in daily stand-ups with the DevOps team and your assigned Dev teams to receive work and supply updates, and provide input with respect to design, monitoring, deployment, resource and security requirements.
• Attending Development meetings at project inception to ensure DevOps standards are adhered to, especially with respect to logging and monitoring of application health and compatibility with infrastructure design, security requirements and compliance and best practices.
• Maintaining knowledge of the inner workings of all applications within your portfolio, ensuring that all system dependencies are documented.

You Will Have

• Experience using Microsoft Azure products & technologies
• Knowledge of private, public and hybrid cloud architecture, networking, workload types, migration patterns and tools
• Familiarity with .NET/C# development
• Demonstrable PowerShell scripting skills
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in DDoS, Website Security, CDN using tools such as Incapsula / Cloudflare.
• Excellent experience in building CI/CD pipelines using automation tools (Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Git, etc), able to build/manage a pipeline from start to finish
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools – Terraform preferable
• Experience with containerization principles and frameworks (Docker, Kuber netes)

Person Specification

• Complete understanding of what the DevOps culture is
• Passionate about technology
• Able to communicate on all levels, technical and non-technical
• Team Oriented
• Takes ownership of their work and has exceptional attention to detail
• Patient and calm under pressure
• Perseverance and the ability to drive issue resolution and projects through to completion
• Continually strives to improve both their work and their personal knowledge
• Self-motivated and content to work both individually and on team projects.
• Articulate and able to communicate technical detail to both peers and non-technical stakeholders
• Personable with the ability to handle stressful situations
• Technical creativity and the ability to envision future solutions