Azure Cloud Practice Engineer IV (Azure DevOps + Terraform + Scripting) Immediate joiner Preferred

Rackspace Technology; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology firm is seeking a skilled DevOps professional with extensive experience in cloud services and CI/CD practices. This role involves leading teams to tackle complex challenges, developing effective automation strategies, and ensuring seamless integration of new technologies into business solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in scripting and programming, along with a deep understanding of version control systems and cloud infrastructure. Join a forward-thinking company where your expertise will drive continuous improvement and excellence across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8-15 years of relevant experience in DevOps and cloud technologies.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to solve complex problems and improve processes.
• Guide the execution of solutions for non-routine issues.

Skills

Scripting/Programming

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

Version Control Systems (Git)

Automation

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Cloud Services

Operating Systems (Linux/Windows)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD Tools

Artifact Management Tools

Orchestration Tools

Job description

Summary

Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field.

• Leads others to solve complex problems.

• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.

• May provide functional leadership to teams or projects. Encourages others to listen attentively and engage with the speaker by asking appropriate open-ended questions; reflects on and reiterates key points and clarifies messages to help others reach agreement.

• Monitors non-verbal reactions of others to identify and respond to areas of interest or concern.

• Ensures all viewpoints have been heard and discussed before reaching conclusions, offering guidance or asserting own views.

• Influences and coaches others across the business unit/function to work independently and identify areas for improvement in work processes.

• Encourages and motivates people to achieve high standards of excellence by consistently raising the bar and coaching others to achieve results.

• Sets challenging and realistic goals for others; proactively considers the business unit/function’s goals to prevent conflicts of interests and communicates goals to teams.

• Provides guidance and expertise to analyze data and patterns and assess the root cause of complex, non-routine problems.

• Collaborates with others across disciplines to brainstorm and execute solutions to the most complex, uncommon problems.

• Guides the execution of solutions for complex, non-routine issues; redirects solution implementation if desired results were not originally met.

• Creatively develops tools, visual aids and other original content to support the understanding/education of complex and technical information (e.g., legal, operational risk, and regulatory data).

• Guides others on the best practices and approaches for creating clear, concise and organized communication materials to convey technical concepts in a user-friendly way.

• Challenges others to bring fresh and creative perspectives to differentiating technical communications and ensuring comprehension and ease-of-use for various audiences.

• Exceeds customers’ expectations by listening for unexpressed needs; connects customer needs to relevant service offerings and new technology.

• Leads others in resolving technical issues in a timely manner; follows up with customers to ensure satisfaction.

• Partners with the business to integrate new technologies into business solutions; creates and communicates a vision of the technology requirements for the future state of the business.

• Prioritizes workload and ensures that deadlines are successfully met; delegates or seeks additional staff when necessary.

• Identifies short- and long-term barriers to completing project plans and takes corrective action to meet deliverable objectives.

• Manages multifaceted projects or assignments, such as projects that have several separate components, with minimal error and without missing important deliverables.

Knowledge

DevOps Skill Baseline Coding

• Scripting/ Programing language/ Configuration Management/ Container (1 or more at 100 level)
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• VCS (Git Based VSC)
• Familiar with commit, branch, merge, review process
• Understand pre/post hook
• Design/implement branching strategy (e.g., git flow, GitHub flow)
• Design/implement group development collaboration process (access control, code review/approval, integration with other CI tools)
• Artifact Repository
• Familiar with one of the popular artifact management tools
• CI/CD tools
• Implement CI services (VCS, artifact repo, build, release)
• Design/implement CI/CD pipeline
• Operating System familiar with Linux or Windows OS

Cloud Skill Baseline

• Automation
• IaC
• Use cloud IaC language to implement cloud resources or operation process
• Use orchestration tools to organize IaC code and inject configurations
• CI/CD
• Implement CI services (VCS, Artifacts repo, build service pipeline service)
• Implement CI/CD pipeline to build/deploy infrastructure or application
• Design/implement best practice CI/CD

Additional knowledge areas include Landing Zone (Multi Account Framework), Identity Access Management (IAM), Security, Networking Compute (VM, Container platform, Function), Virtual Machine workload, serverless solutions, Data storage, Database, configuration management, Secret Management, Monitoring and Logging, Message Queues.

Experience

• 8 – 15 years of experience in the field of role required.