DevOps Engineer, Azure

***The salary range for this position is $71.43 - $77.86 per hour.***

***Please note, that all applicants applying for US job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States.***

With roots dating back to the 1800s, our Customer is a global professional services firm HQ’d in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. Today, they are a unique group of businesses with many enduring competitive advantages. Among them are the quality of their colleagues, deep client relationships, vast global footprint, depth of intellectual capital, and cohesive and collaborative culture.

Our customer is seeking a DevOps Engineer, Azure on a contract basis to help support their ongoing business needs. This role is 100% remote.

What You’ll Do:

• Work with infrastructure, Architecture, and software development teams to implement CI/CD automation on-prem and in the Azure cloud
• Implementation and troubleshooting of continuous build and deployment pipelines
• Contribute to the drive towards DevOps methodology with the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and API integrations
• Coordinate with Release, Infrastructure, Middleware, Developers, Quality, and other support teams to create automation and create win-win solutions
• Provide support for CI/CD Tools including new app onboarding tasks as well as support incident tickets
• Work closely with the Architecture and development team to deploy the Azure Services

Must Haves:

• Experience building CICD pipelines (Build and deployment of Azure Services and applications based on Nodejs and Python)
• Strong working knowledge in Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, Networking, Load balancers, DNS and Azure services
• Hands-on experience with Azure Arm Template(ARM), PowerShell, Shell /Bash scripting, Terraform, Python, Helm charts
• Hands-on experience and knowledge with Docker and Azure Kubernetes deployments
• Good understanding and solid experience with products such as Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Hashicorp, Rancher, etc.
• Experience with Networking, Load balancers, DNS, and Azure services
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and working independently with minimal oversight
• A great communicator who keeps all stakeholders updated with issue progress and updates
• Strong communication skills (written and oral)
• Willingness to learn new things
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Working knowledge of Azure/AW/GCP Cloud Skills (Azure Preferred)
• Working knowledge of Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Kubernetes Services, and Okta preferred
• CLI (command line interface)/Bicep knowledge

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Certification in Azure Administrator Associate or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert preferred

Hours & Location:

• M-F, 40 hours/week. This role is 100% remote.

Please note: In order to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors who plan to be onsite to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines. Prior to coming into the offices, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of the waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.