Position/Title: Azure DevOps Engineer (Mid-Level) - 100% Remote

** NOTE: We are specifically looking for 2-4 year person with experience in Azure DevOps. We are not able to sponsor any Visas at this time.

Location: 100% Remote (anywhere in the US

Primary Purpose:

Responsible for Application Lifecycle Management for multiple business units. Primary duties will encompass the design and implementation of automated build and release pipelines utilizing Azure DevOps Services, supporting a .NET C# stack. Provide communication and collaboration between software development, quality assurance, business analysis, project management and infrastructure teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

• Create and manage Azure DevOps Services build and release definitions to enable deployment to lower environments as well as production environments
• Setup continuous integration capabilities
• Perform Dev, Test, UAT, Staging and Production build/deploy activities for application releases
• Support production deployments, assist with troubleshooting deployment issues
• Assist with branching/merging in order to provide support of parallel development requirements
• Collaborate with testing teams and assist with continuous delivery of builds to environment
• Act as a liaison between application development and infrastructure teams in the establishment of needed infrastructure in the development and subsequent support of application solutions
• Develop an understanding of infrastructure footprint of existing NET solutions and utilize as a pattern for new solutions
• Serve as the SME for software development life-cycle tools that can support testing, monitoring, integration/release and scheduling areas
• Install, configure, troubleshoot, patch, and upgrade software application products
• Monitor usage and changes configurations to improve capacity or performance of servers
• Participate in system performance tuning and technical troubleshooting sessions

Minimum Skills and Competencies:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor Degree or in-lieu of degree, equivalent education, training and work-related experience
• 2+ years of working with or supporting an Application Development team
• 2+ years of distributed build/deploy experience
• Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps Services to include: GIT Source Control, GIT branching strategies, creating and managing build definitions, and creating and managing release pipelines, deployment groups, deployment gates
• Strong build automation experience utilizing YAML
• Experience with all types of application configuration and deployment, including but not limited to, web applications, web services, windows services, micro services
• Ability to refactor application builds to utilize NuGet packages
• Familiarity with building and deploying NET Core applications
• Strong working knowledge of all phases of software development including design, coding, testing and implementation
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Performs work under general supervision
• Handles moderately complex issues and problems, and refers more complex issues to higher-level teammates
• Ability to work with and understand business client requirements
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish working relationships with individuals at varying levels within the organization
• Effective organizational and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure, adhere to project deadlines and procedures, multi-task and be detail-oriented
• Must possess effective written and verbal communication skills

Desired Skills:

• Strong scripting knowledge, preferably PowerShell
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD implementation and best practices utilizing Azure DevOps Services and on premises TFS
• Familiarity of working with containers utilizing Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience creating SQL projects/DacPacs; automating the deployment
• Strong knowledge of Windows server technologies (ex IIS configurations, monitoring agents) and network configurations (ex DNS, proxy, firewall rule exceptions)
• Experience working with virtual machines in a VMWare environment
• Understanding of Change Control procedures, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery concepts as they relate to Distributed Systems architectures

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