DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with Azure experience to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Azure tenant management, resource management, networking, DevOps administration, and automation. This role is pivotal in ensuring our cloud infrastructure is secure, efficient, and scalable. This individual will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our systems and services.Responsibilities:Cloud Platform Management:Lead and manage cloud-based infrastructure, primarily in Microsoft Azure.Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on Azure.Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost efficiency, with an emphasis on automating financial governance (FinOps) practices.Deploy and manage serverless and event-driven architectures, ensuring efficient scaling, automation, and maintenance of services like Kafka and Azure API Management (APIM).CI/CD Pipeline Development:Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring rapid, secure, and reliable delivery of services.Automate build, test, and deployment processes to enhance development efficiency, using industry best practices.Infrastructure as Code (IaC):Implement infrastructure as code practices, with a primary focus on using Bicep for Azure deployments. Familiarity with tools like Terraform, ARM templates, and AWS CloudFormation is also valuable.Ensure infrastructure automation, provisioning, and management are efficient, repeatable, secure, and compliant with financial industry standards.Azure DevOps Administration:Manage Azure DevOps Services, including user access, permissions, and project setup.Update pipelines, boards, and repositories to streamline development workflows, while automating the Azure DevOps platform for SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) implementation.Experience with Azure DevOps marketplace integrations is a plus.Monitoring and Performance Tuning:Implement and manage robust monitoring solutions to ensure high performance and availability of cloud environments.Proactively identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.Collaboration and Support:Work closely with development, InfoSec, compliance, and operations teams to address infrastructure and regulatory requirements.Provide DevOps and Azure DevOps support, assisting teams with troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues in cloud environments.Best Practices and Security:Enforce cloud security best practices, compliance with SOC 2, and governance policies, ensuring adherence to financial industry regulations (e.g., FFIEC).Stay updated with emerging cloud technologies, DevOps methodologies, and security advancements to continuously improve the cloud environment.