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DevOps Engineer (remote)

Jacksonville, FL

DESCRIPTION:

Are you ready to design, plan, and automate the delivery of complex Azure environments?  Do you have expertise in migrating and maintaining multifaceted applications in the Cloud? Astadia is looking to expand their team of Cloud Engineers, Architects, and Administrators. Join our team supporting cloud adoption in the Private and Public Sectors.

JOB SUMMARY

The Astadia Cloud team ensures that the requirements of our clients are implemented into their production environment on schedule, while meeting any associated production service levels addressing availability, performance and issue resolution. The current effort requires planning, integration, deployment, and maintenance of applications to a secured Common Computing Environment (CCE) in the Azure Government Cloud.  The position will include creating and maintaining the code that performs Azure deployments using ARM templates and PowerShell.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for Azure hosted applications
  • Provide SME support for application migration and integration projects taking place within Azure, including both design and support
  • Work independently, and with the wider team, to analyze, unravel, and resolve issues in real time, providing end-to-end issues resolution
  • Develop and maintain Powershell scripts to push system and application objects to dev/test/prod environments via DevOps processes
  • Must demonstrate a complete understanding of IT and development infrastructure as configuration as code.
  • Must have experience working with ARM templates and DSC resources.
  • Participate in knowledge sharing activities in areas of expertise, including mentoring, cross training, documentation, and other activities as required to improve the technical expertise of the team as a whole
  • Use existing tools to build automated processes to complete maintenance activities
  • Tune the tools and processes to streamline maintenance tasks
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of regular processes, track issues, document changes, and build automated procedures that promote an environment of continuous improvement within Azure
  • Ensure all services and applications are operable in both Pre-Production and Production environments, and that they meet the proscribed SLA's for availability and performance
  • Support the Azure deployment infrastructure through system performance tuning and maintenance tasks
  • Provide daily operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting activities for Azure infrastructure and application releases – provide detailed reporting on all triage, investigation, failure recovery, and performance tuning activities
  • Report all issues to the project manager, and escalate issues as needed through appropriate levels to achieve satisfactory results for the client
  • May be required to be on-call, or provide weekend and after hours support for package deployments and issue resolution

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Excellent PowerShell and scripting experience.
  • Excellent DSC resource knowledge.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and SCM tools and practices.
  • Ability to configure and run builds and release in TFS and Azure DevOps.
  • Education (preferred):
    • BS degree with 8+ years of relevant experience,
    • OR a Masters degree with 6+ years of relevant experience
    • OR 10+ years of proven related experience showing increasing systems complexity
  • 8-10 years' experience in IT as a sys admin or network engineer
  • 2+ years' experience in Azure technologies, design, and development/engineering
  • CompTIA Security+ certification or higher a plus​

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