DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Insight Global; Middletown (CT); Hybrid; USD 75,768 - 82,656; Full time

Job summary

A growing banking employer is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Middletown, CT. This role involves designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, utilizing Azure DevOps, Terraform, and integrating third-party tools. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience and expertise in public cloud environments. The position offers $55-60/hour for a 6-month contract with a mid-senior level seniority.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Expertise in any public cloud including Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong experience setting up new pipelines in a public cloud.
• Expertise building CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
• Expertise with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• General understanding of the overall Azure platform.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Integrate third-party tools into the CI/CD pipelines.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• Create Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
• Perform configuration management and container orchestration.

Skills

DevOps Engineering

Pipeline Automation

Source Control Management with Git

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

CI/CD Pipelines

Containerization (Docker)

Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

SonarQube

Job description

Overview

A banking employer is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Middletown, CT. The preferred candidate will be able to come onsite, however they are open to remote for the right resource. This company has experienced significant growth in recent years and has expanded its IT organization and support capabilities. They are in the early stages of their cloud journey to migrate to Microsoft Azure, and are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help lay the groundwork. The DevOps Engineer will work with the Azure Cloud Engineering Lead to create the foundation necessary for migrating assets to the cloud. Responsibilities include designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, with a strong focus on pipeline automation (build, release, multi-stage, and approvals). They will integrate third-party tools such as SonarQube or security tools into the CI/CD pipelines. The role requires strong source control management expertise, particularly with Git, including branch strategies, pull requests, and merge conflict resolution. The Engineer will utilize Infrastructure as Code with Terraform for provisioning, and create Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. They will be involved in configuration management (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) and containerization/orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes). Additional duties may include security and compliance, monitoring and logging, scripting and automation, and networking and storage. Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills are essential.

Required skills and experience

• 8+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
• Expertise in any public cloud including Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Strong experience setting up new pipelines in a public cloud and managing the repositories
• Expertise building CI/CD pipelines from scratch (preferably using Azure DevOps)
• Expertise with Terraform for IaC
• General understanding of the overall Azure platform

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience with Git for source control management
• Experience with configuration management with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

Pay

$55-60/hour

*this is a 6 month contract*

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Industries