Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Beaulieu & Associates, Inc. was founded in 2007 with the vision of being the antithesis of today's recruiting practices by offering a unique, high-end approach to IT Staffing and Recruiting.  Today more than ever, our clients appreciate our ability to understand their requirements and consistently find and engage great people. The depth of our offering goes way beyond traditional staffing.   In our world, integrity, trust and mutual respect encourage a spirit of true collaboration aimed at producing performance, results and overall value.

Our mission, our passion is helping people, teams and entire organizations achieve the success they desire.  Why not hire the best!

 

Job Description

Beaullieu & Associates is seeking candidates for a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer, Architect, for a Direct Hire with a San Antonio based company.  This position is a great opportunity for someone to come in, make a difference and shape the direction of this organization's Azure Cloud offering.

The Azure DevOps Engineer will be part of the team that is responsible for designing, developing, and operating the infrastructure and applications that make our Cloud solution work.

We are looking for a seasoned Azure DevOps Engineer who is eager to work with the scale of a global infrastructure across several cloud IaaS vendors.

The goal for the Operations team is to keep our infrastructure ahead of our (rapid) customer growth, ensuring service reliability, performance, efficiency, and security. If you're an operations-minded automation and software expert looking to join a small, nimble team, you may have found the best place to be!

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Develop new tools and features for Globalscape products on Azure
  • Operate our existing VMware-based cloud infrastructure
  • Be involved in real-time assessment of issues and help develop solutions
  • Build and design solutions that mitigate risk and increase efficiencies
  • Create tools and solutions to manage and monitor our rapidly growing infrastructure and operations
  • Monitor software and systems to detect issues before they impact business operations
  • Automate processes and sub-processes to enable greater scale and speed
  • Provision, configure and maintain cloud resources including server instances, load balancers, security groups, DNS management, certificates 
  • Apply periodic updates, patches, etc to servers during maintenance windows

 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS

  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Have 2-3 years of DevOps-like work or experience in a real time operational role
  • Expert experience with Azure IaaS, Scale Sets, ARM templates, Azure Automation
  • Expert knowledge of Powershell
  • Experience with Azure using both the Azure Portal, Azure Command Line Interface (Azure CLI)
  • Experience with automation and configuration management (Chef, Ansible, DSC, etc)
  • Have proficiency in at least 1 other language: python, php, .net, C#, etc
  • Working knowledge of MSSQL, including administration and performance tuning
  • Strong background in Windows systems administration
  • Advanced knowledge of networking and protocols: TCP/IP,ICMP,SSH,LDAP,DNS,VLANs,Loadbalancing,NSGs, etc
  • Experience with VMware virtualization technologies
  • Ability to identify problems, and effectively communicate solutions to peers and management
  • Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate with people with a variety of skill sets
  • Ability to adapt to rapidly changing requirements

 OTHER VALUABLE SKILLS

  • Container experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with logging/monitoring using tools such as Grafana, OMS, LogStash, Kibana a plus
  • Understanding of agile and other development processes and methodologies
  • Experience integrating multiple, interdependent, distributed systems and applications

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS

  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Have 2-3 years of DevOps-like work or experience in a real-time operational role
  • Expert experience with Azure IaaS, Scale Sets, ARM templates, Azure Automation
  • Expert knowledge of Powershell
  • Experience with Azure using both the Azure Portal, Azure Command Line Interface (Azure CLI)
  • Experience with automation and configuration management (Chef, Ansible, DSC, etc)
  • Have proficiency in at least 1 other language: python, PHP, .net, C#, etc
  • Working knowledge of MSSQL, including administration and performance tuning
  • Strong background in Windows systems administration
  • Advanced knowledge of networking and protocols: TCP/IP, ICMP,SSH, LDAP, DNS, VLANs, Loadbalancing, NSGs, etc
  • Experience with VMware virtualization technologies
  • Ability to identify problems, and effectively communicate solutions to peers and management
  • Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate with people with a variety of skill sets
  • Ability to adapt to rapidly changing requirements

 OTHER VALUABLE SKILLS

  • Container experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with logging/monitoring using tools such as Grafana, OMS, LogStash, Kibana a plus
  • Understanding of agile and other development processes and methodologies
  • Experience integrating multiple, interdependent, distributed systems and applications

Additional Information

Are you interested? Please forward your resume and contact information. We will follow up with more details regarding this opportunity.  

Beaullieu & Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer.