DevOps Engineer

SUMMARY: The DevOps Engineer position is responsible for being a release automation and technical excellence evangelist, working closely with dev teams to guide them in their journey towards safe, repeatable, and ideally, human-less deployments.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily:

• Development and continual refinement of the strategy around how developers build and deploy cloud hosted company assets as frictionless and with as much self-sufficiency as possible.
• Ensure development teams at Kestra have the tooling and technical Infrastructure required to support Kestra's rapid feature development.
• Develop and implement DevSecOps strategies for ensuring developers are building features and infrastructure securely and that cloud hosted assets meet all industry standard and Kestra-defined compliance requirements.
• Regularly assess cloud hosted IaaS resources and determine options and roadmap for conversion to PaaS.
• Participate in periodic disaster recovery and chaos engineering drills, assessing weaknesses and working with the appropriate stakeholders to develop plans for improvement.
• Provide Technical and Architectural guidance to the development teams in an advisory capacity.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND/OR ABILITIES: To perform this job successfully, the individual should have the following skills and abilities.

• Extensive experience with the following:
  • Handling security and policies for Azure DevOps Repos
  • Creating and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • Creating Azure ARM Templates to deploy Azure resources
  • Authoring Powershell scripts to interact with and manage Azure resources
  • Managing Azure resources using Terraform
• Familiarity with the basics and how to troubleshoot the following:
  • Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Firewall, Network Security Groups, and Route Tables
  • Web traffic routing and load balancing through Azure Front Door and App Gateway
  • Iaas IIS VMs and Azure App Services
  • Application Configuration and Connection String management in machine.configs and web.configs
• A passion for continual process improvement. Never settling for the status quo.
• Familiarity with the day-to-day responsibilities and workflows of personnel in development, quality assurance, data engineering, and operations roles.
• A detail-oriented personality with strong troubleshooting and optimization skills.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in MIS, CS, or equivalent work experience
• 2+ year managing Azure tenants and resources
• 3+ years managing Azure DevOps tenants and Team Foundation Server implementations
• 3+ years with automated deployment and configuration management toolsets
• 5+ years .NET development

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – Strongly Preferred
• AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator – Strongly Preferred
• AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions – Highly Desired

PHYSICAL DEMAND: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to sit at a computer for long periods of time in office environment well lit.
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds.
• Position is located in the Austin, TX office. Must be able to work in the office during scheduled work hours.

OTHER DUTIES: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a complete comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Skills : MUST HAVE AZURE FOCUSED CLOUD EXPERIENCE, NOT JUST ANY GENERAL CLOUD!

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

Background Check :Yes

Drug Screen :Yes

Notes :THIS TEAM IS REMOTE UNTIL MAY AND THEN RELOCATION TO AUSTIN WILL BE REQUIRED!

Selling points for candidate :

Project Verification Info

Exclusive to Apex :No

Face to face interview required :No

Candidate must be local :No

Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship :Yes

Interview times set : :No

Type of project :Development/Engineering

Master Job Title :DevOps: Applications

Branch Code :Austin