Principal DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Creative Chaos; Pakistan; Remote; PKR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider in Pakistan is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer. The role involves designing and managing cloud initiatives, collaborating on CI/CD infrastructure, and ensuring secure and reliable environments. Candidates should possess a BS degree in a relevant field with 6-10 years of professional experience, along with strong skills in cloud automation tools and scripting. Excellent communication skills in English are essential.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of related experience in the professional industry.
• Hands-on working with automation tools such as Ansible or Chef.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage cloud engineering activities.
• Troubleshoot issues in tech stack like Linux and Networking.
• Collaborate with development engineering for CI/CD infrastructure.

Skills

Automation with Puppet

Linux troubleshooting

CI/CD pipeline development

Infrastructure security

Collaboration with developers

Scripting in Python

Experience with Docker

DevOps practices

Education

BS degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

Azure

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Overview

Responsible for ensuring adherence to the SLAs as per contract.

Take the lead on urgent issues and projects, ensuring statuses are properly communicated and appropriate staffing resources are assigned as required.

Responsibilities

• Cloud and Puppet Automation: Design, build, support, and manage engineering activities related to cloud initiatives. Develop, design, and support automation modules using puppet technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in tech stack such as Linux, Networking and Load Balancing
• Have a thorough process methodology and ability to communicate with all stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with development engineering to create and deploy a CI/CD infrastructure.
• Develop and implement environments for quality assurance, development, etc.
• Deploy and Support applications in a cloud environment.
• Responsible for infrastructure security and making sure environments are secure, reliable, scalable, and automated.
• Providing direct server support during various operations such as deployment and general production.
• Collaborating with developers to make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices.
• Designing, implementing and testing agreed-upon infrastructures.
• Automating deployment of Linux applications, system configurations and security settings.
• Evaluate candidates for open positions

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or similar relevant field
• Minimum 6-10 years of related experience in the professional industry.
• Working on tools like Jenkins, Azure, App Center Cloud Formation, Ansible, Subversion, Docker, or relevant
• Strong experience in the administration of cloud-hosted environments on at least one popular cloud IAAS platform such as Azure and AWS
• DevOps – familiarity with DevOps practices and automation tooling
• Hands-on expertise on Microsoft products. (TFS, TeamCity)
• Virtualization – Facility with the techniques used to virtualize servers, applications, and desktops. Knowledge of the data center requirements to implement each technology.
• Must have hands-on working with the automation tool i.e. Ansible, Chef.
• Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform and Cloud Formation.
• Experience with CI/CD toolchain (Kubernetes)
• Basic level scripting experience (Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell).
• Experience with Linux distributions (Rhel 8, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Amazon Linux)
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Flexible attitude and versatile personality.