Azure DevOps Engineer

Position Title - Azure DevOps Engineer (Contract 8 Months)

Position Purpose

Working across our Azure estate (including; Azure Infrastructure, Power Platforms, Integration Services, and Data & Analytics) the role of Azure DevOps Engineer involves taking a people, process, and technology-based approach to address key business challenges for our Microsoft ecosystem.

The Azure DevOps Engineer will be largely working on a lift and shift migration from on-premises datacentre to our Azure landing zone working closely with the security, networking and our cloud migration vendor.

The role will also be responsible for all code-related (BICEP) improvements which are part of our two Azure Landing zones and also the review and approval of any code changes within these environments.

This is a Sydney based role – and no offshore candidates will be considered.

Key Responsibilities

· Infrastructure Deployment and Management: Deploy, configure, and manage Azure infrastructure components, including virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, and other services as required.

· DevOps Automation & Continuous Improvements: Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps to automate the deployment and scaling of applications and services. This will include the development and improvement of IaC templates for the Azure landing zone and its consumers.

· Azure DevOps Pipelines & Bicep modules owners

· Security and Compliance: Ensure Azure environments adhere to strict security and compliance standards, implementing necessary measures to protect data and applications

· Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Set up monitoring solutions to proactively identify performance issues and troubleshoot and resolve incidents related to Azure services and applications.

· Cloud Migration and Innovation: Assist consumer teams in migrating their solution effectively into the newly designed Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone Framework. This will be a mix of future on-premise migrations as well as legacy Landing zone framework workload migrations.

· Cost optimization: Continuous interrogation and assessment of opportunities to optimize Azure resources to control costs and improve the overall efficiency of cloud operations.

· Documentation and Training: Create detailed technical documentation and provide training to internal teams and partners on Azure solutions and best practices.

The methods and approaches to successfully achieving these outcomes:

· Work within an Agile DevOps team, prioritising high pressure Project work.

· Working with Architects and Partners, implement and manage the Azure estate utilising Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework and Well Architected Framework (Reliability, Security, Cost Optimisation, Operational Excellence and Performance Efficiency)

· Engage in a consultative manner with vendors and internal team members for ongoing solution development and continuous deployment

· Work both independently and collaboratively with other IT teams, vendors, technology leaders, as well as end-users when necessary

· Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, excellent judgement, and possess a passion for continuous learning

· Deliver innovative solutions in a diverse environment with shifting priorities, wearing many hats all while driving projects and tasks to completion.

Knowledge / Qualifications / Experience

· At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure support, and administration

· At least 5 years of experience working with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 in a hybrid cloud environment.

· At least 3 years developing automation solutions within the Azure platform leveraging Infrastructure as Code

· Proven knowledge of Azure principles for governance, policy and operational controls for standardisation

· Proven experience as a Senior Azure Engineer or Cloud Technical Lead role, with hands-on experience in designing and managing Azure-based solutions

· Solid understanding of Microsoft Azure services and offerings, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

· Experience in Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure - networking, security, governance.

· Experience with cloud adoption, including application readiness assessment, prototyping of new environments, server builds, data migration, performance tuning of cloud environments.

· Experience in working with and supporting AGILE programs and projects.

· Experience working in an environment employing DevOps principles, methodologies, and culture.

· Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines development & management

· Experience with optimisation, reliability, patching and security.

· Experience with scripting languages, automation tools and, infrastructure as code. (Powershell and Terraform or BICEP)

Relevant Microsoft Certifications

· Azure Fundamentals

· Azure Administrator

· Azure Solution Architect Expert (desirable)

· Azure Network Engineer (desirable)

Key Competencies

· Azure Infrastructure SME

· Security Focus

· BICEP & Azure DevOps Pipelines