Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is a leading company in the IT sector, and they are seeking a DevOps Engineer II to lead automation processes for deploying Infrastructure as Code in Microsoft Azure and On-Premises environments. The role involves managing Linux/Kubernetes cluster environments, supporting development teams, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to ensure application uptime and performance.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead infrastructure-as-code development using Terraform and scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell to support scalable and reliable deployments
- Manage Linux/Kubernetes cluster environments
- Deploy solutions in accordance with Change Management Processes
- Support development teams on API integration strategy and standards development
- Ensure systems are secure against cybersecurity threats
- Identify technical problems and develop software updates and fixes
- Strong Splunk skills for administration, query optimization, alerting, and dashboard development
- Build tools to reduce errors and improve customer experience
- Propose ideas and solutions within the Infrastructure Department to reduce workload through automation
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for faster and more reliable software releases
- Independently conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
- Design and write tests to investigate infrastructure failure and scaling
- Create and maintain response playbooks across incident management and monitoring tools
- Develop automation to ensure repeatability, eliminate toil, and reduce time to action and repair services
- Analyze key operational metrics to identify opportunities to improve availability
- Implement effective monitoring, alerting, and reduction of alert fatigue
- Manage container orchestration environments and optimize deployment workflows to enhance scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency
- Design, build, and manage containerized environments using Docker
- Create and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Design and optimize monitoring dashboards and alerting systems to proactively detect and address application performance and uptime issues
- Implement code branching strategies using GitHub functions
- Advanced Terraform syntax and GitLab CI/CD configuration, pipelines, jobs
- Provisioning and setting up metrics in Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana, creating and managing alerts
- Implement cloud engineering standards, reusable modules, and platform patterns in Microsoft Azure
- Operate shared cloud platform services according to Cloud Engineering defined architectures
- Ensure infrastructure changes comply with reliability, security, and cost controls established by Cloud Engineering
- Maintain operational documentation and runbooks for cloud platform services
Skills
- Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
- Over 4 years as a DevOps Engineer in medium to large-scale environments
- Proficient in Windows Server, Linux, and hybrid cloud deployments using Microsoft Azure and VMWare
- Skilled in Git/GitHub workflows, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, and container orchestration (Tanzu, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Experienced with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps) and observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ThousandEyes)
- Knowledgeable in log management (ELK Stack) and database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL)
- Strong background in automating infrastructure provisioning and application deployment using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
- Proficient in creating and maintaining monitoring dashboards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to ensure application uptime and performance
- Experienced in ensuring infrastructure security, driving automation initiatives, and collaborating across teams to improve reliability and scalability
- Experienced in building observability pipelines and performing advanced queries in log management tools like Splunk for troubleshooting
- Experience implementing and operating Azure-based shared services defined by platform or cloud engineering teams
- Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Certification (Required)
- Kubernetes Administration Certification (Required)
- Linux Certification (Desired)
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