Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

About the Cloud Engineering Team

The Axway Cloud Engineering team is a group of subject matter experts within R&D that tightly collaborates with Product Development (R&D) and Cloud Operations teams to maintain infrastructure provisioning and management, end-to-end CI/CD code delivery, manage security, and consult on any cloud and containerization topics. This involves a strong technology background for AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, extensive usage of centralized source and configuration management and dedication to self-serve automation, as well as a solid proficiency in infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be a part of the infrastructure group of Cloud Engineering, delivering a suite of tools to both Cloud Operations and R&D teams to improve their operational efficiency and support our self-service strategy. You will be exposed to a full software delivery lifecycle process, involving technologies such as Terraform for Azure, Gitlab CI, and a variety of Azure services. You will maintain and create Axway Terraform framework, thereby expanding the range of business cases covered.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Build, maintain, automate, ensure reliability of Axway Terraform platform that fits infrastructure requirements of Axway products by using system/software engineering best practices and the latest technologies:
• DevOps (Azure, GitLab CI, Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Scripting)
• Document and handover robust automated solutions to our R&D and Cloud Operations team,
• Maintain uptime of the CI/CD service and respond to incidents promptly.
• Have an intrinsic drive for learning. The rest (platforms, training, conferences, etc.) is on us.

Qualifications

Ideally, you would have a mixture of the following:

• Working experience of Terraform development to provision and deploy the infrastructure of Azure (4+ years)
• Working experience with Ansible Automation and authoring playbooks and roles for installing, maintaining, or upgrading platforms
• Proficiency in Azure cloud services, including, AKS, virtual machines, containers, networking, and databases and security best practices, including role-based access control (RBAC). (3+ years)
• Experience in designing, implementing, and managing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using GitLab CI, or similar tools. (2+ years)
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. (5+ years)
• Strong English communication and teamwork skills
• Experience working in an Agile development environment is strongly desired
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines
• The certifications of Azure Solution Architect Expert(AZ-306) or Azure Administrator Associate(AZ-104) are preferred.

We value knowledge and experience even more than formal certificates. We know that having prepared and gone through a certification process is a great achievement on its own, but if you haven’t, don’t let this stop you from chiming in.