Position: Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure) (W)
Company: Exadel
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

The customer’s engineering team's primary focus is to develop detailed low-level designs and deliver technical components and solutions in accordance with a predefined set of business requirements and outcomes as specified by solution and domain architects.
 You will ensure the domain engineers leverage a standard set of enterprise-wide artifacts such as design patterns and standards and follow guiding design principles. You will also ensure the developed solutions or technical components deliver Customer’s strategic intent, and you will do all of this while meeting the solution requirements and providing business value. Your goal will be the development of automation to ensure consistent delivery of solutions and ongoing operations. 

**About Exadel**:
Since 1998 Exadel has been engineering its own software products and custom software for clients of all sizes. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Exadel currently has 1000+ employees in development centers across America, Europe and Asia. 

**About the Customer**:
Founded in the Netherlands over 180 years ago, the customer’s company is a global leader in information services and expert solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. As of 2017, it was recognized by Corporate Knights as one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world. It operates in over 150 countries.

**About the Project**:
The project involves constructing business-facing apps in the public cloud.
Your team's assignments will include all relevant code and detailed Low Level Design. Engineers will work closely with Architecture and Operations to ensure all solutions are seamlessly transitioned from build to run.

You'll need to leverage a standard set of enterprise-wide artifacts such as Design Patterns and Standards and follow guiding design principles to deliver Customer’s strategic intent, all while providing business value.

**Project Team**:  2 DevOps, 1 Scrum Master, 1 Senior Developer, 7 Senior DevOps, and 1 Senior Project Manager

**Project Phase**: Development

**Project Duration**: Ongoing

**Responsibilities**:
Develop best practices for code
Develop and apply DevOps practices for engineers’ team
Develop cloud-based services in AWS or Azure
Develop common approaches for service development
Work with a team, support it with nascent questions and issues
Work in close cooperation with Solution Architects to define the requirements (grooming)
Review pull requests
Present results on demo
Provide technical leadership on the project
Communication with stakeholders, holding presentations, etc.
Be strategic and tactical
 
**Requirements**:
More than 5 years of IT experience
Experience with DevOps and automation
Experience in an engineering role supporting both Azure (70%) and AWS (30%)
Experience with migrating datacenters workloads towards Azure and/or AWS
Scripting skills with Powershell, Python
Experience with tools: Ansible, Terraform, Chef 
Experience in software engineering
Experience in a specific design domain
Recent experience within the design and implementation of complex, highly available, and highly scalable solutions
Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
Excellent communication and presentation skills

**Experience with**:
cloud computing
server/datacenter virtualization
storage
information security
network
enterprise-wide architectural governance, architecture decisions, exceptions, standards etc
development of foundational reusable technology components
 
**Nice to Have**:
Knowledge of Azure DevOps/Visual Studio Online
Proficient in two or more of the following:
C#
ASP.NET
PowerShell
Python
BASH
JSON
 
**English level**:
Intermediate +