Azure Devops Consultant

Description

Position Accountability
Design, build, operate, and monitor the technical distribution of our BaaS model by using the latest DevOps techniques to enable an efficient multitenant SaaS model, including integration with 3rd party and partner systems. Ensure the system meets nonfunctional requirements such as scalability, performance, and reliability through effective architecture design and directing performance engineering efforts. This is a key role that will ensure we can distribute our digital banking solution to multiple partner models efficiently leveraging modern cloud techniques.
Responsibilities
This is a handson systems engineering role that focuses on execution of multiple partner integrations by changing or leveraging the base product suite, from execution to quality assurance and deployment. The focus is on the full technology stack with specific responsibility for the infrastructure stack, cloud hosting environment, and support of integration technologies
Develop and maintain EAI and configuration documentation that represents the critical views to ensure maintainability for all technical stakeholders. Contribute to integration standards and define methodologies for execution and operations.
Interact with business operations, business product management, and multiple technical teams to deliver complex client banking integrations
Help define and drive consensus on integration technical decisions and deliver high quality results
Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
Foster teamwork, communication, collaboration while managing competing priorities
Ensure sufficient separation of concerns between multiple business models
Expected Outcomes
Integration technologies are developed and supported in an efficient fashion to efficiently separate concerns between the multiple integration models. Ensure integrations are loosely coupled, maintainable, and perform well
Solutions are highly configurable, easy to support, and base technologies and methods can be reused across additional deployments
Base product features are seamlessly propagated to the clients implementation while partnerspecific features are isolated from the base product
Ensure businessalignment, quality, and efficiency by structuring integration documentation for ease of use across all technology teams
Partners are satisfied with our level of professionalism and technical expertise
Qualifications
Must be an expert in modern cloud computing technologies and DevOps techniques, including IaaS and PaaS models, and deep familiarity with the Azure stack
Must have direct experience in architecture and design of complex SaaS deployment models, specifically how to handle multitenancy via different methods for each part of the architecture
Must have experience scaling systems with MMs of users via performance engineering, testing, and tuning, with the ability to setup an effective approach to system under test design, test harness, and success criteria development and execution
Must have some knowledge of enterprise application integration with large banks and have a firm grasp in integration methods and technologies including SOA, EAI, and/or ETL disciplines
Must be highly crossfunctional across multiple technologies, especially cloud and data center operations, Windows, Linux and other operating systems, .Net, Javascript, Node.js, app servers, web services, batch frameworks, messaging frameworks, and multiple systems admin technologies
Some of the following financial technologies core banking, PFM, card management, payments, digital wallets, RDC, HCE, and cryptocurrencies
Must have both frontend mobile, web, and backend SOA and batch technical experience and have a keen understanding of the commonalities and differences between web and mobile products
Experience with technical operations and DevOps methods and tools, such as ITIL, agile/scrum, continuous integration, automated configuration management, test driven development, data center and cloud automation, and UI monitoring and measurement tools
Strong attention to detail including precise and effective customer communications and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
Superior verbal and written communications skills and history of teamwork
S. in Computer Science, MIS, or related field (M.S. preferred)