Principal DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Creative Chaos; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Chaos is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead on urgent cloud automation projects and to design, build, and support CI/CD infrastructures. You will collaborate with development teams to deploy secure, scalable environments and automate deployments using Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, and CloudFormation.

Strong Linux administration, scripting, and English communication skills are required. The role focuses on Azure/AWS cloud environments, security, reliability, and automation across

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or similar relevant field
• Minimum 6-10 years of related experience

Responsibilities

• Lead on urgent issues and projects, ensuring proper staffing and status communication
• Design, build, support, and manage cloud initiatives and CI/CD infrastructure
• Develop and support automation modules using puppet technologies and related tools
• Troubleshoot Linux, networking, and load balancing issues
• Collaborate with development to deploy secure, scalable environments

Tools

Jenkins

Azure

App Center Cloud Formation

Ansible

Subversion

Docker

TFS

TeamCity

AWS

Chef

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Python

Ruby

Bash

PowerShell

Linux

RHEL 8

CentOS

Ubuntu

Amazon Linux

Job description

Job Description:

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. 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

Requirements

• 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.