Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Company Overview:

Our success lies at the powerful intersection of people and technology. Bringing innovative training and education solutions to more than 2 million customers a year, Certus enables lifelong learners at every level — from trusted industry brands, such as Amazon, Siemens, Geico and Chick-fil-A, to individual learners seeking to enter, sustain or advance their careers. Our people come with a get-it-done spirit and a desire to impact a rapidly growing industry. Certus is committed to continuously evolving to ensure a culture where employees can be themselves, do their best work, and thrive, both professionally and personally. We choose to be a remote workforce so we can hire top talent regardless of location — all while empowering employees to work from wherever they choose. Innovative, brave, kind and diverse are defining traits of our team. Our talent is positioned in numerous roles, with opportunity for internal mobility, such as software engineers, instructional designers, creative writers, consultative sales professionals, innovative marketers and more.

Job Overview:

This role focuses on building and maintaining the tooling and infrastructure used to automate the release, deployment, and upgrade processes for workloads. This individual will work on developing the automated pipelines for cloud environments as well as providing consulting services to application and infrastructure teams specific to automated build, test and release automation. This role will be responsible for the operations and operating environment of all platforms and services both internally and externally facing and will drive troubleshooting efforts around incidents and outages.

Responsibilities: 

·       Design and provision cloud infrastructure in Azure using infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Azure DevOps)

·       Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deploying application, databases, and infrastructure changes

·       Collaborate with engineering teams to assist with application reliability and performance in the cloud

·       Contribute to configuration updates and server provisioning using GitOps best practices

·       Participate in troubleshooting and monitoring production issues using tools such as Application Insights, Grafana, Loki

·       Analyze resource requirements and usage, and suggest options to optimize and cut costs

·       Continuously evaluate and implement new technology and tools to improve productivity and processes

Preferred experience and skills:

• 5+ years of experience with creating solutions on Azure services with focus on security best practices

• Demonstrated experience creating well designed CI/CD pipelines for delivering solutions using Azure services

• Knowledge of container technologies and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, etc.)

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, etc.)

• Demonstrated experience with Linux and windows cli

• Demonstrated experience with scripting language such as Bash, Python, and/or Powershell

• Ability to troubleshoot independently

• Desire to mentor less experienced teammates

• Strong understanding of Azure well architected framework best practices

• Experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, etc.)

• Experience with container technologies and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, etc.)

• Knowledge of C# or other object-oriented language

• Designed high availability and disaster recovery solutions

• Solid knowledge of the complete software development lifecycle and agile process

Performance Expectations:

• Proficiency in architecting multi-cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code

• Proficiency in monitoring and responding to alerts and providing feedback to developers and stakeholders

• Keep current on the latest DevOps-related technologies to offer architectural guidance to create a scalable, manageable, stable, cost-effective platforms

EEO Statement: Certus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.