Principal DevOps Engineer (Azure)
Job Description: Responsible for ensuring adherence to the SLAs as per contract. Take the lead on urgent issues and projects, ensuring statuses are properly communicated and appropriate staffing resources are assigned as required. Cloud and Puppet Automation: Design, build, support, and manage engineering activities related to cloud initiatives. Develop, design, and support automation modules using puppet technologies. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in tech stack such as Linux, Networking and Load Balancing Have a thorough process methodology and ability to communicate with all stakeholders. Work collaboratively with development engineering to create and deploy a CI/CD infrastructure. Develop and implement environments for quality assurance, development, etc. Deploy and Support applications in a cloud environment. Responsible for infrastructure security and making sure environments are secure, reliable, scalable, and automated. Providing direct server support during various operations such as deployment and general production. Collaborating with developers to make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices. Designing, implementing and testing agreed-upon infrastructures. Automating deployment of Linux applications, system configurations and security settings. Evaluate candidates for open positions Requirements BS degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or similar relevant field Minimum 6-10 years of related experience in the professional industry. Working on tools like Jenkins, Azure, App Center Cloud Formation, Ansible, Subversion, Docker, or relevant Strong experience in the administration of cloud-hosted environments on at least one popular cloud IAAS platform such as Azure and AWS DevOps – familiarity with DevOps practices and automation tooling Hands-on expertise on Microsoft products. (TFS, TeamCity) Virtualization – Facility with the techniques used to virtualize servers, applications, and desktops. Knowledge of the data center requirements to implement each technology. Must have hands-on working with the automation tool i.e. Ansible, Chef. Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform and Cloud Formation. Experience with CI/CD toolchain (Kubernetes) Basic level scripting experience (Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell). Experience with Linux distributions (Rhel 8, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Amazon Linux) Excellent verbal and written English communication skills Flexible attitude and versatile personality. Originally posted on Himalayas