Azure DevOps

Allwyn Corporation - Vienna, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Vienna, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Digital DevOps Engineer III will be an integral part of the Digital Engineering organization, focusing on delivering rapid and incremental capabilities to the Cloud that enhance the member and user experience while driving value to the Client. This role is designed for a professional who is passionate about automation and best practices in the DevOps space. The engineer will join the Digital DevOps & Release team, which provides horizontal support to Digital Engineering and Experience Development teams, ensuring that Digital applications are primed for seamless production transitions and successful operations. In this position, the Digital DevOps Engineer will manage, build, configure, administer, operate, and maintain all components of the Azure DevOps environment. The engineer will collaborate closely with Experience Teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment, design and implement pipelines and configurations, and develop scripts to automate tool and service deployment to the Azure cloud environment through Azure DevOps Pipeline and Release. A critical aspect of this role is enforcing quality controls and gates throughout the build, test, and deploy processes, establishing Definitions of Ready and Done to ensure high-quality delivery. The engineer will also be responsible for implementing monitoring and alerting for products and services in accordance with current guidelines, participating in discussions with Information Security to enhance the CI/CD framework with DevSecOps practices, and engaging with engineering teams to identify and implement improvements to current processes and capabilities. This role may also involve other duties as assigned in support of Digital Engineering, making it a dynamic and multifaceted position.

Responsibilities

• Manage, build, configure, administer, operate and maintain all components that comprise the Azure DevOps environment
• Work with Experience Teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment
• Design, build, and implement pipelines and configurations
• Develop and maintain scripts to automate tool/service deployment to the Azure cloud environment through Azure DevOps Pipeline and Release
• Enforce quality controls and gates to the build, test, and deploy process while establishing Definition of Ready and Definition of Done to ensure quality of delivery
• Ensure monitoring and alerting is implemented for products/services in accordance with current guidelines
• Participate in discussions/efforts with Information Security to augment the CI/CD framework with DevSecOps practices and standardized security tools and controls
• Participate in discussions with engineering teams on current processes and capabilities and how they can be improved
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of Digital Engineering

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure or similar Cloud native offerings
• Hands-on automation skills and significant experience in creating CI/CD pipelines leveraging cloud native architectures on Microsoft Azure Cloud and Infrastructure as Code for enterprise applications
• Experience supporting Hybrid Cloud architectures
• Experience with Agile Delivery, SAFe, and DevOps frameworks
• Experience with Microservices deployment and release management
• Experience with Azure DevOps tools for plan, build, test, release and monitor
• Experience with Gitflow branching model
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or other container technologies
• Experience with scripting using PowerShell and Bourne shell
• Hands-on experience with implementing standards and best practices for the CI/CD framework
• Knowledge of security scanning and monitoring tools like Checkmarx, BlackDuck, SonaQube, Contrast, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics and Diagnostic
• Extensive experience with scripting and debugging on Linux and Windows environments
• Understanding of Test Automation tools and scripts to facilitate Test Driven Development
• Understanding of integrated package management with support for Maven, npm, NuGet, or ANT
• Experience with automated Change Management using modernized solutions like ServiceNow
• Expert analytical/quantitative, problem-solving, and deductive reasoning skills, with demonstrated experience performing advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis of complex technical issues
• Excellent organizational, planning and time management skills and ability to work independently and in a team environment to manage concurrent priorities and meet deadlines
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills and ability to present findings, conclusions, alternatives and information clearly and concisely
• Experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors with demonstrated ability to build effective relationships through rapport, trust, diplomacy and tact

Nice-to-haves

• Gitflow branching experience
• Kubernetes experience
• CICD pipelines