We are seeking an Operational/System Engineer with expertise in Azure Kubernetes (AKS), Azure Storage, Azure Event hub, and Istio Service Mesh for a one-year mission.
You will be integrated in a team of architect and system engineer to configure integration setup and to support our operational team as 2nd line support.
Responsibilities:
- Helping development team to manage their request for integration setup on Azure service mesh and on Middleware Standardized File Transfer and Event Hub Messaging solutions.
- Asses team incoming requests and prepare configuration to be performed by our operational engineering team. Launch request toward other teams like firewall or other and follow up of these.
- Gradually integrate our operational team to handover the setup to them.
- Continue to improve and automate our deployment processes.
- Improve scripting, automation process and tooling to provide good tool to our operational team.
- Support different development teams in their migration to Azure Cloud, assisting with their integration into the service mesh.
- Troubleshoot set that are not working as expected, identify issues, trigger needed changes, make follow up of progress.
- Support middleware operational team for standard middleware setup on Azure, act as 2nd line support.
- Debug issues, use our existing tools and monitoring/logging solutions to identify problems.
- Report them to architect or engineering team.
- Update our scripts to solve bugs or improve situation.
- Work with the operational team to train them, explain the platform and assist them with debugging and troubleshooting.
Skills and Experience:
- Minimum 5 years or experience as system or operational engineering.
- Good background on operational and support tasks.
- Good experience with Azure Cloud platform, more specifically on AKS, Azure Storage, Azure Event Hub and Event Grid, Azure Monitoring and Azure security.
- Knowledge of Istio service mesh, including its deployment, configuration, and management.
- Experience of Istio setup in large companies IT department
- Good experience in scripting languages like Power Shell, Bicep, Bash and other Unix Shell
- Good experience in GitHub repository, GitHub Workflows and actions.
- Release and deployment procedure
- Experience using ArgoCD
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.
- Strong understanding of Azure Identity management and access control
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certification on Azure Security (AZ-1002, AZ-1003)
- Experience with other service mesh technologies such as Linkerd or Consul (optional)
- Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk
- Experience with cloud-native security practices and tools.
About Us:
Join our dynamic team of skilled architects and engineers, contribute to increase their knowledge on Azure Cloud platform and Service Mesh, help to succeed a critical cloud migration project for the company.
Summary
- What we need is knowledge on Azure AKS, Azure Key Vault, Azure Storage Account, Azure Networking & Security, Azure Observability – Azure AKS service mesh and Istio tool is key .
- Good, deep and proven knowledge of GitHub, GitHub action, GitHub workflows
- On scripting good & proven knowledge on PowerShell, Bash, Bicep – other terraform can help
- Middleware & integration knowledge (API management, ESB, Pub/Sub, …) & experience in IAC (infrastructure as a code), configuration automation, CI/CD, monitoring, alarmin, scripting