Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $153,000.00 and $181,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire.

The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

In this DevOps role you will have responsibility for creating systems and tools to assist the Software Development Team with building and deploying software, conducting automated testing, and assisting with first-level production support.

In addition, you will have responsibility for creating systems and tools to assist the Infrastructure and Software Development Teams in provisioning, configuring and deploying virtual infrastructure, including load balancers, servers, workstations, databases, etc.

Role Objectives

• Participate in full lifecycle development of software and implement all DevOps procedures to support the CI / CD process including the automation of the build, test, deploy pipelines and configuration management.
• Employ best practices for designing automation processes and utilities that can be easily used by the development teams.
• Design and develop a best practice release management process that employs separation of control and proper approvals.
• Evaluate and monitor infrastructure resources to guarantee proper operation of the CI / CD pipeline.
• Closely partner with the security and infrastructure teams to incorporate corporate standards into the CI / CD and provisioning processes.
• Maintaining source control management system and integrating it with software build and deployment.
• Responsibility for the build environment : resolve build issues, help coordinate complex software test environments and software releases.
• Triage of software issues from the Help Desk, disseminating requests to developers as appropriate and assisting with the deployment of fixes and enhancements.
• Monitoring of Systems' operational processes, escalating and facilitating failure resolution as appropriate.
• Design, execution and monitoring of automated testing and regression suites, reporting results as appropriate.

Qualifications and Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience of working with the full software development life cycle and designing / developing best practice CI / CD pipelines, GitHub Action, test automation, static code analysis, Artifactory and release management processes.
• Strong experience with managing and support of Windows / Linux Servers.
• Good understanding of deployment of various platforms such as web / REST API, messaging bus / queue, application services, Microservices and Cloud Serverless components / managed platform.
• Proficient in containers and orchestration technologies (Docker, K8s, OpenShift, ARO / EKS).
• Proficient in at least two of the following Windows batch / PowerShell, bash, Python and Jenkins / Ansible / Puppet (IaC).
• Experience with Cloud solutions i.e. AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, ALB / NLB) / Azure (VNet, private Link, Blob storage, Azure SQL, Web App, Data Factory, ACS, AKS, ARO).
• Experience with networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, NAT, firewall, load balancing, etc).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• A curiosity concerning technology and the ability to learn new systems and tools quickly.

Desired Skills :

• Experience working with relational databases / SQL and no-SQL, other database technologies are a plus.
• Experience with code-quality (SonarQube, Github Enterprise Advanced Security, Jfrog Artifactory Xray).
• Experience with application telemetry, monitoring and alerting solutions (Splunk, LogicMonitor, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Insight or similar).
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