Job description

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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:

• Contribute to the design of systems and architecture
• Assess the businesses cloud maturity, review existing Azure cloud implementations, identify gaps and suggest improvements
• Ability to provide leadership and accountability for work they undertake and articulate their thoughts
• Comfortable with fast changing and dynamic environments
• Able to take on ideas and feedback from other technical experts as well as the business
• Research new technologies to implement within the DevOps environment to improve the process of code deployment to our environments, seek out in-efficiencies and match relevant technology solutions to resolve them.
• Follow a source control culture within the configuration of Servers and Applications where environments configurations are stored in code for a fully automated process.
• Form part of 24/7 support roster to support applications after hours, where possibly train the other DevOps team members to resolve issues and reduce the dependency on yourself or other Tech team’s afterhours.
• Take part in daily stand-ups with your assigned Dev teams to both receive work as well as supply updates and provide input with respect to design, monitoring, deployment, resource and security requirements.
• Sit in Development meetings at project inception to ensure standards set by DevOps are maintained, especially with respect to logging and monitoring of application health, compatibility with infrastructure design, security requirements and compliance and best practices.
• Maintain knowledge of the inner workings of all applications within your relative portfolio, ensuring that all system dependencies are documented.

Requirements

You will have:

• The ability to learn and master new technologies rapidly. As technology changes, you will be required to move with the times and become a master in your own right. You’ll need to be a self-starter, not always relying on official / scheduled training. We need someone who loves learning, and who is able to teach themselves.
• Significant experience using Azure Technologies, including (but not limited to):
  • Azure DevOps (VSTS) – designing and implementing release processes for development teams
  • AppInsights and Azure Monitor – significant experience troubleshooting applications (PaaS, SaaS, etc) using AppInsights and Log Analytics. Familiarity with writing queries using Kusto query to determine root cause of outages / problems.
  • Azure Functions / Durable Functions / PaaS / SaaS – familiarity (or experience with) building functions / apps with native Azure technologies. (Note: you don’t need to be a developer, just understand how Azure works, how the technology fits together, and how to troubleshoot these apps when they break)
  • Cost Management and Usage – experience in creating billing and usage scopes that can be used to easy alert on changes in usages and alert if there are significant changes in both usage and cost.
  • Azure Policy’s – experience in creating policies for an Azure environment to conform to regulations and best practices.
  • Azure Container (including Kubernetes service) – experience in building container services to host and manage new or legacy systems.
• History of successful implementation of complex Azure or hybrid cloud architecture solutions, using the following Azure technologies…PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, Azure Websites, API Apps, Azure SQL, etc
• Expert knowledge in private, public and hybrid cloud architecture, networking, workload types, migration patterns and tools
• Familiarity with .NET/C# development
• Excellent PowerShell scripting skills

• Excellent experience in building CI/CD pipelines using automation tools (Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Git, etc). Able to build/manage a pipeline from start to finish
• Using ARM templates to automate Microsoft Azure
• Experience with containerization principles and frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in using coding/scripting to automate/reduce time taken to complete manual tasks.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experience in working with Agile methodologies and DevOps principles
• A background within Development.

It would be a bonus if you also had:

• Previous experience in 24/7 High Performance Environment.
• Proven hands on experience with Windows Server / Linux and its product suite.
• Experience of automation tools such as Chef
• Experience with load balancers such as F5
• Knowledge of Azure SQL and Microsoft SQL Server
• Knowledge of Web and Application hosting environments (IIS, Windows Services or Nginx)
• Knowledge of logging technologies such as LogStash, Kibana, ElasticSearch
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Solarwinds

Person Specification

• Passionate about technology
• Ability 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

This position requires trust and honesty it has access to customers financial details – therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore, a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role, and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner, and solely for the purposes of verification.

To view all current vacancies, please visit our website, www.digioutsource.com 

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.

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Posted on 02 Apr 18:32