DevOps Architect

Job description

Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division is looking for a DevOps Architect who has deep understanding and scaling of DevOps process and tooling. There are opportunities to automate Tools Infrastructure, CI Platform, Application Provisioning, Deployment, and Management. This person will be responsible for creating and leading highly efficient, metrics-driven, DevOps solutions for our clients.   This role requires strong design skills, development skills. We need a passionate individual who can scale across roles and is flexible to work with a diverse team.

For this role, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer from development, release/build engineering and operations background to join our DevOps Customer Advisory Team and help us transform organizations by impacting their software tooling and processes. This is a great opportunity for someone from a relevant background to join a progressive organization and help build out our customers next-generation automation, monitoring, deployment platform. We need a talented, multi-disciplinary consultant engineer who’s able to build out a continuous integration process married with a solid release strategy while having the ability to upskill our customers team members and advise on best practice and strategy to management. Your passion for DevOps will be anchored in Microsoft technologies while stretching to everything from Jenkins to Team City to be able to give well rounded and extremely informed advice.

Required:

• Bachelors degree

• 1+ years' programming, architectural or developer experience

• Experience using VSTS

• Experience using Team City, Jenkins etc.

• Knowledge of the dev ops ecosystem including Testing, Analytics, internal deployments & Azure

Job responsibilities include:  

Work directly with our clients and their development teams to get their app building and deploying.  

Review existing ALM procedures and advise on best practices using the Microsoft technologies available to them and also offering the benefits of other products available.

Troubleshoot workflows to give the best CI/ CD experience to the customer’s specific needs  

Rapidly prototype and POC CI / CD for our clients  

Parachute in and save the day with your expert Dev Ops skills  

Work closely with the core VSTS / Mobile center engineering team to understand and perfect the latest features and technologies  

Deploying highly available, scalable, maintainable, monitored CI / CD.    

Troubleshooting performance, reliability, and stability issues.

Deploying continuous integration and deployment pipelines for microservices supporting containers, auto scaling and service discovery.    

Cross training with other specialists, and training people as needed.

Researching, evaluating, and developing new tools to improve product development efficiency.

Planning for disaster recovery and capacity growth.

Supporting engineering teams and automating processes to improve dev ops productivity.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to