Position: Senior DevOps (Azure) Engineer
Company: SoftHouseGroup
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

One of the world's largest (in his domain) companies is open to extending the project team by DevOps to drive the evolution of the technology platform into an Azure cloud-based architecture.

**SoftHouseGroup** is an agile partner that helps you to support technology innovation while remaining flexible and cost-effective, that has been operating since 2003. Our offices are located in the USA, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the UK, and Ukraine. We proudly serve Enterprises and SMB companies, helping them achieve excellence in technology. Our goal is to help our clients to grow business solutions using the engineering expertise of Eastern Europe.
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Required skills:**

- Advanced knowledge and experience with Azure services and technologies including, APIM, Service Bus, Databases, Firewall, Identity, and Log Analytics;
- 3+ years of experience in managing live environment deployment and issue resolution;
- Experience with container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes;
- Expertise with setting up instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting;
- Hands-on experience with service observability tools such as Data Dog, Dynatrace, App Dynamics;. 
- Hands-on experience with configuration management and infrastructure orchestration tools sets such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, PowerShell, Python, Git, Azure DevOps

**Will be a plus:**

- Microsoft Azure certifications; 
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks;
- Experience and knowledge of network technologies including TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, DNS, routing, load balancing, etc.

**Responsibilities:**

- Handling advanced Azure services;
- Perform a production support role, troubleshooting complex cloud, and hybrid cloud services ;
- Support development and evolution of cloud governance framework encompassing various disciplines: cost management, security, resource consistency, identity, and deployment acceleration;
- Design and implement monitoring and audit processes, dashboards, and alerts to ensure optimal performance, reliability, availability, and security of the company’s systems and data;
- Provide expertise and recommendations to the cloud governance board;
- Continuously improve the observability & reliability of our end-to-end platform, with the objective of moving away from high operational cost tasks such as break/fix, cluster migrations, new service buildouts, etc;
- Implement SRE solutions through monitoring, alerting, machine learning anomaly detection, automation, self-healing, reliability testing to reduce & scale manual tasks;
- Respond to and, when appropriate, resolve or escalate cyber security incidents.

**What do we offer:**

- flexible working arrangements; 
- autonomous team structure with a lot of freedom and ownership;
- opportunities to own development from start to finish;
- opportunities to speak with clients and the development team only in English
- paid vacations and sick leaves.

**Looking forward to working with you! 

SoftHouseGroup team**