Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: Vienna, VA

Contract Responsibilities:

• Hands on automation skills designing, building, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines
• Support the adoption of CICD framework for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services, perform DevOps health assessment, identify gaps and execute recommendations
• Build and support highly available data pipelines and related integrations
• Design, build, and implement reusable YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps while adhering to best practices
• Perform analysis of DevOps practices, identify gaps and impediments for continuous integration and delivery
• Engage with information Security and augment the CI/CD framework with DevSecOps and standardized security tools and controls
• Develop and apply 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
• Be a member of Center of Excellence for DevOps practices and develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers
• Provide guidance, coaching, training on build, test, and release management best practices
• Collaborate on and provide input into the CICD roadmap, identify gaps and dependencies
• Work directly with business leadership to understand strategic objectives; propose and develop solutions for program increments
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications, Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years' experience in creating continuous integration and delivery pipelines leveraging cloud native architectures on Microsoft Azure Cloud
• 3-5 years' hands on experience with Databricks, Data Factory, DataLake, CosmosDB, Function apps, SQL
• 3-5 years' Experience with agile delivery, SAFe, and DevOps frameworks
• 3-5 years' Experience with DevOps Tools for plan, build, test, release and monitor
• Experience with PowerShell scripting, Bash, YAML, Json, GIT, Rest API, and Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates
• Experience with Git flow branching strategy
• Experience with implementing standards and best practices for the CI/CD framework
• Knowledge of security scanning/monitoring tools and integration with pipeline
• Extensive experience with scripting and debugging on Linux and Windows environments

Desired:

• DevOps-CI/CD Experience with Azure resources related to Data, Analytics & AI
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Developer Associate