Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Kubota Tractor - Grapevine, TX

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Grapevine, TX

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer will be involved in the design, implementation, and support of cloud-based infrastructure within our Azure Cloud. This role will be responsible for working with business counterparts to identify business requirements and convert into associated technology solutions supporting business initiatives. The role will be responsible for ensuring security is maintained within the cloud environment. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys being a part of a fast-paced Team responsible for leading and supporting multiple projects to implement new technology, perform maintenance and upgrades to the existing environment. For successful completion of these projects, problem solving, vendor management, and interfacing with clients and colleagues across the organization will be key. The position participates in a wide range of activities, from requirements analysis through systems, application and/or process design specification. The candidate requires knowledge across multiple platforms, processes or architectures.

Responsibilities

• Support the Manager with mentoring and training others in the department.
• Apply knowledge of information technology and associated methods and tools of the administrator profession to attain project/business unit objectives.
• Advise other professionals (Project Managers, Architects and IT Specialists) in the team on tools, technology and methodology related to the design and development of architectural solutions.
• Negotiate effectively with team members (vendors, subcontractors, customers/dealers and internal users) to identify each member's role in solution design and development.
• Analyze problems and create solutions involving business, information technology, methodology, process, tools and solution components.
• Lead all or portions of the project, recommending team members and organizing the team, defining tasks, tracking and reporting progress.
• Influence customers, vendors, subcontractors and Kubota users inside and outside the project with presentations on project-related topics.
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as Code deployments, security validation processes, unit testing, documentation, and code review.
• Manage cloud infrastructure (Azure) and solutions to improve solution quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline; or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• In lieu of degree 5 years of DevOps/Cloud experience required.
• 5 to 7 years' hands-on experience with cloud technologies (with preference in Azure Cloud).
• Proven experience in a Cloud Engineering or DevOps role.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Bicep, Terraform).
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, Powershell).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, AKS).
• Hands-on experience with data warehouse platforms (e.g., Azure Fabric, Databricks, Azure Machine Learning).
• Strong background with Windows and Linux administration.
• Experience in Azure AD, specifically IAM and managing enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management processes.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced knowledge of process and software modeling and experience translating business needs into requirements.
• Demonstrates the required proficiency levels for technical skills.

Benefits

• Telecommuting Eligible
• Equal opportunity employer