Release Engineer (Azure DevOps with Terraform) - Urgent

Job Title: Release Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL

Job Description

Who are we looking for?

A release engineer who will lead the efforts of migrating our TFS into Azure DevOps and work on the development of our continuous integration and deployment practices (CICD).

Technical Skills:

• Minimum of 6 years developing CICD pipelines. Preference is given to GitLab-based pipelines.
• More than 4 years of hands-on experience with Azure DevOps
• Hands-on experience in continuous delivery and continuous integration of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Azure Repos, branching, code review, and code analysis tools
• Proficient with Git, Git Flow, Azure DevOps
• Strong hands-on expertise in diverse DevSecOps concepts/tools, especially on Azure DevOps, Pipelines, GitHub, GitHub actions
• Ability to assess the requirement, and environment and suggest the right tools/technologies.
• Microsoft Azure Architecture Design
• Azure Landing Zone Design & Implementation
• Design and Creation of Infrastructure as Code (IAC)/Terraform Modules (Terraform experience is nice to have, but not at a premium cost. There will be Terraform leadership/expertise already in place they can learn from)
• Design and Development of AKS (Azure Kubernetes Infrastructure) modules
• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform Development.
• Azure Support
• Security & Operational Governance
• Expertise in Azure Functions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Write software, from build system automation to automated deployment, to scale our engineering delivery.
• Bring in continuous deployment practices to enhance our Agile posture.
• Imagine, architect, develop, deploy, and evolve CI and CD systems for us on-prem applications.
• Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and services.
• Write application deployment automation using industry-standard deployment and configuration tools.
• Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the purpose of provisioning and operating client tests as well as production environments.
• Implement systems support including responding to monitoring.
• Implement and stay abreast of DevOps industry best practices and tooling.
• Work with developers to identify necessary Azure resources and automate their provisioning.
• Document automation processes
• CI/CD infrastructure and process troubleshooting (disk space, network issues etc).
• CI/CD pipeline support (troubleshooting, support with setting up in new projects)
• Work closely with key stakeholders to capture, analyze, and derive DevOps requirements.

Process Skills:

• Able to coordinate with developers and stakeholders on DevOps issues.
• Able to proactively search for solutions from knowledge bases, support documentation, and other information sources.
• Strong initiative; self-driven; ability to multi-task
• Should be responsible, accountable, and work independently.

Certification:

• Azure Certification, DevOps certification.