Senior DevOps (Azure) Engineer

Our client, an award-winning global tax services and software provider, is the largest Firm in the world dedicated exclusively to business taxes. With global headquarters in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides an integrated suite of federal, state, local, and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis, including tax recovery, consulting, advocacy, compliance, and technology services. Our client is a seven-time recipient of the International Service Excellence Award from the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA) for its commitment to world-class client service.

About the project:
The project is dedicated to the Sales Tax area: building a SaaS solution that helps clients track and forecast their performance.

Duties and responsibilities:
• Build and maintain a cloud-based infrastructure solution in Azure
• Deploy infrastructure as code
• Building fully automated CI\СD pipelines for SaaS applications on the MS Azure platform
• Monitoring, reporting, graphing, and alerting across all infrastructure services
• Build and deploy Docker containers in an orchestrated environment
• Detect and monitor security issues
• Monitor and measure systems for performance, load & capacity planning
• Ensure that Day to Day support and maintenance of these systems is managed within best practice guidelines, which include dealing with escalations as well as communications and stakeholder management

Requirements:
• 4+ years of DevOps experience
• Commercial work experience with Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps
• Decent experience in Linux/Windows Server administration
• Well-versed in TCP/IP, HTTP, and complex cloud network and security topologies
• Good knowledge of Azure stack (AKS, VMs, Blob, VNet, SQL Databases, CDN, DNS, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Git in Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and Terraform
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (AKS)
• Hands-on experience with Terraform
• Experience setting up monitoring tools (Application Insights, Datadog)
• Basic scripting and automating skills (PowerShell, bash)
• Upper-intermediate level of English (both verbal and written)
• Deep understanding of DevOps principles

Nice to have:
• Understanding of Secure Software Development
• Experience working with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
• Experience with SQL (Azure SQL Database, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB, Mongo DB)