Azure DevOps Engineer

Skills

• Design implement test and maintain tools and processes for build deployment and configuration management. • Ensure accessibility security reliability availability and performance of infrastructure. • Administer tools and processes to build test deploy and monitor software. • Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations. • Being the last line of support of services and applications in production. • Evangelize a DevOps culture of automation self-service and engineering best practices to enable development teams to go from development to production with a minimum effort.

Description

Albertsons-Safeway is looking for an experienced Platforms Engineer to join our Platform Services team. These positions will be reporting into our Cloud and Operations group. This individual will work across all IT Portfolio's to evaluate, recommend and enable technologies, tools and develop Frameworks, drive adoption across the company. Keys to these positions are critical thinking, technology awareness, Market research, Open source mindset and communication to influence Technology direction with development teams.
• Good hands-on knowledge on any major public cloud Azure, GCP, AWS, Azure is preferred

• Good expertise in setting up and managing Kubernetes

• Good hands-on knowledge on Terraform, Ansible

• Good hands-on knowledge on linux OS and command line tools

• Expert in CICD tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions

• Service Mesh Istio knowledge preferrable but not a must

Responsibilities

• • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• • Minimum 3+ years of comprehensive experience with Azure including a solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline, Jenkins, Maven, Spring Boot.
• • 10+ years of strong and proven experience in DevOps, Automation and/or Software development lifecycle.
• • Extensive knowledge of CD tools like spinnaker, container orchestration system like Kubernetes, service mesh such as Istio.
• • Strong knowledge of all layers of the TCP/IP stack and common Internet services/protocols such as SMTP, DNS, LDAP, NTP, and HTTP.
• • Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks, such as Selenium, Junit, or TestNG
• • Good to have knowledge of DevOps CI/CD platforms such as Harness or CloudBees or GitHub.
• • Proficiency in shell scripting and Python highly desirable.
• • Deep troubleshooting skills that involves analysis of logs, traffic trace, configuration data, automation tools to resolve issues until end-to-end systems are functioning.
• • Experience with infrastructure provisioning tools such as Chef, Terraform, or Puppet in production environments with many nodes, and understanding of Linux and Windows Platforms.
• • Experience deploying to and orchestrating containers in production environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• • Experience with restful services, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, cloud system (Azure) and API Management.
• • Knowledgeable about security, networking, and RDBMS/Database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Redis).
• • Strong mission to put pro-active solutions in place to prevent future problems and automate processes so that engineers can self-service their operational requirements.
• • Passion of Open source technologies, developing common libraries to be used by developer community.
• • Strong experience in developing Platform components and help development teams to build consistent applications.
• • Required ability to work across platforms and languages at all levels of the stack.
• • A strong motivation for self-directed learning when called for to take on challenges to provide solutions in fast faced environment in areas API management, Microservices, DevOps and Common Frameworks.
• • In depth knowledge on developing frameworks, common services in collaboration with development community.
• • Ability to work in Agile environment.
• • Development experience in designing/implementing large scale, distributed systems in production class software on public cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP.