Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

The Senior DevOps Engineer is tasked with the design, development, and administration of continuous integration and deployment solutions for applications and software across the Digital Connected Living platforms. They support the creation of new technology infrastructures and maintain software configuration, automation tools, and develop automation processes and standards.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Training: The Senior DevOps Engineer conducts training for any staff Engineers and other engineering teams on how to build software defined/driven processes in code.  The Senior DevOps Engineer plays an operational role by troubleshooting issues in systems and leveraging those issues as vehicles for teaching other members of the staff.

• Strategy: The Senior DevOps Engineer enables automation of configuration management for all development, quality assurance, user acceptance, pre-production and production services as well as the automation of continuous integration and continuous delivery of IaC services.  The Engineer is also tasked with recommending software deployment strategies that allow DevOps engineers to successfully deploy software and services in any environment. They are responsible for the updating configuration management tools, code, and modules for the purpose of streamlining implementation and supportability.

• Design and Development: The Senior DevOps Engineer is charged with building and optimizing comprehensive automation systems that operate across all lines of business at Assurant.  They also implement scaling strategies and develop automation scripts and solutions for the purpose of streamlining, implementing, and testing software-based technology services. The Senior DevOps Engineer additionally develops self-service solutions for the engineering departments in order to deliver software-based technology services with great speed and quality. They are also responsible for providing input into the architecture and technical leadership of the entire DevOps infrastructure.

• Collaboration and Support: The role of the Senior DevOps Engineer is a collaborative role where they assist more junior members of various teams in the usage of technologies for software development, software testing, service provisioning, and service management.  The Senior DevOps Engineer also leverages the workings of reusable tools and patterns, for example, reusable code and CI/CD pipeline tasks.  They also support engineering teams in the implementation and lifecycle of infrastructure solutions and operational documentation in order to meet the highest levels of quality and standards.

• Knowledge: The Senior DevOps Engineer is further tasked with keeping up with and implementing industry best practices and trends on behalf of the DevOps department. They conduct research, tests, and implements new metrics collection systems that can be reused and applied to software-based technology services and application development projects.  The role is seen as a practitioner of emerging and transformational technologies and ways of working.

What are the requirements needed for this position? 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or any other relevant STEM field is desired

• 5+ years of working experience in a DevOps capacity, preferably as a DevOps Engineer

• 3+ years working with Azure, YAML, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Github

• 3+ years of experience working with tools and languages such as C#/Java, Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, JSNode, SQL and MongoDB.

• The candidate must also have experience automating the management of large-scale infrastructure.  

• The candidate must have experience in systems automation, orchestration, deployment, and implementation across multiple layers of the stack.

•  Ideal candidates will have several years of experience using Windows and Linux and must have experience in one or the other as a basic requirement. 

• Experience configuring and automating monitoring tool systems and responses is a must. 

• A suitable candidate will further demonstrate experience in horizontally scaled distributed systems, for example, ELK, Container Management and Orchestration platforms. 

• The candidate must have a solid understanding of AWS and Azure Cloud Platforms.  The candidate must also have worked with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, NewRelic, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Nimsoft.

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any other relevant STEM field, or equivalent experience

• Familiarity with leveraging the Microsoft tool chain for DevOps including but not limited to:

  • Azure DevOps

  • Octopus and/or Microsoft Release Manager

  • Azure and related platforms and technologies (Cosmos DB, Application Insights, SQL PaaS, etc.)

  • PowerShell and PowerShell DSC

  • Microsoft Service Fabric

• Additional DevOps Experience a plus on any of the following disciplines:

  • CI/CD toolchains, Maven, Jenkins, etc.

  • Configuration management and orchestration tools, such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform

  • Container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, or Swarm

  • Use of the Atlassian stack (Jira, etc.)

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Pay Range:

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

If there is no posting end date listed then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.

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