DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Engineer is a member of the Application Delivery team. The team is responsible for managing a broad portfolio of enterprise applications, including custom-developed cloud-based applications and commercial SaaS applications used throughout the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Primary responsibilities include managing the team’s Microsoft Azure environment with a focus on service monitoring to ensure uptime and reliability, scripting the deployment and automation of new services, and leading efforts to implement CI/CD processes.
• This role works collaboratively with internal customers, researchers, and Information Services team members (application developers, operations engineers, information security).
• The candidate has very strong analytical and technical skills along with demonstrated ability to get things done in a customer-driven, fast-paced collaborative team environment.
• We highly value candidates who demonstrate strong enthusiasm and an aptitude for rapid learning, with direct experience in the specified technologies considered beneficial.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or similar role, working with a variety of technologies and cloud platforms.
• Proven experience managing and configuring complex Azure environments, including subscriptions, resource groups, virtual networks and private endpoints, DNS, identity and access management, RBAC, security controls, cost management and billing, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery.
• Experience with Azure services such as Monitor, Application Gateway, Entra ID, Key Vault, Storage, Defender, OpenAI.
• Strong coding/scripting abilities in languages such as Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, C#, etc.
• Experience developing and supporting infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates using ARM, Bicep, Terraform, etc.
• Experience implementing automated CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Familiar with containerization and orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.
• Familiar with logging and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc.
• Proven ability to develop technical documentation such as system architecture diagrams, networking diagrams, process and data flow diagrams, data models, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum/Lean development environment and tracking tasks in Jira or similar systems.
• Strong preference for a generalist who can contribute across numerous functional areas – multi-cloud environments (experience with AWS in addition to Azure is a plus), on-prem infrastructure management, infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, networking configuration, system administration, coding, patching and vulnerability management, etc.