Reporting to the Senior Director, IT Client Delivery Management, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for administering environments in Azure and On-Premise DC. He/she will work with a broad set of team members focused on product releases into Cloud infrastructure and existing product development, deployment and automation support. He/she will be responsible for the analysis, design, develop, implementation, troubleshooting, and documentation of cloud-based solutions CI/CD pipelines using configuration/deployments automation in alignment with Finastra corporate guidelines and software development lifecycle standards.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

• High degree of professional confidence and credibility with the presence and communication skills to represent IT-related concepts effectively with management

• Deploy and support Cloud resources IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS, using infrastructure as code

• Write automation scripts for building, deploying various products

• Implement and maintain CI/CD environment for products across organization

• Pro-actively identify procedures to streamline and automate the delivery process

• Implement new tools/develop/execute automation scripts for all environments

• Interact with Operation Teams to build and manage the artifacts for production deployment

• Automate routine tasks utilizing coding languages and tools. Preferred, but not limited, coding experience in PowerShell, Anisble, Python, and Terraform

• Enhance and support existing automation scripts.

• Recommended and document policies, DevOps tools, branching and version control strategy & standards, quality strategies, and related industry best practices

• Create and maintain technical documentation for build, deployment, release, and support procedures

• Plan and upgrade all automation related tools that release engineering team uses.

• Document all procedures related to the processes and tools developed

• Help the development team understand the release process and assist them when required.

• Design, and managing Azure Kubernetes service infrastructure

• Manage Azure identities, and secrets

• Enforcing Finastra security standards, policies, and procedures

• Vulnerability and patch management and security based on established policies and procedures

• Managing and improving governance and solution configuration

• Create continuous environments as part of the overall Continuous Delivery objective as required by the Development and QA teams

• Identify, establish, and manage Proof of Concept (POC) environments and report on design outcomes

• Work on support escalations related to Azure environments

• Assist with the identification of environment(al) issues and provide corrective actions

• Monitoring health and performance of cloud DEV/TEST/QA/RE/PE environments and executing relevant maintenance tasks or fixes

• Improve availability, and stability of hosted client facing applications

Required/Preferred Experience:

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, various Azure Cloud Services, PowerBI, and D365.

• Minimum 3-5 years experience working with Azure in a high-tech environment

• Experience with platform technologies to include, Compute, Storage, Network, Data, Software, Monitoring

• Understanding of data transformation practices including: ETL, ELT, data modeling, data warehousing, and data lake. Understand data engineering process.

• Experience with data transformation components such as Databricks, Synapse, Data Factory, SSIS, Analysis Services

• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines

• Experience with TerraForm

• Experience with automation tools (Ansible, or similar tool)

• Experience with Azure Repos, branching, code review and code analysis tool

• Proficient with Git, Git Flow and Azure DevOps

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies like Docker

• Knowledge on different monitoring and logging solutions available on Cloud, preferably on Azure

• Moderate to extensive knowledge of general security practices, DevSecOps, etc.

• Self-starter with ability to balance many tasks with changing priorities. Proven ability to handle a wide variety of tasks and successfully prioritize work

• Must be detail-oriented and able to work independently with minimal supervision

• Strong Scripting (bash, PowerShell, Python, and other similar scripting languages)

• Ability to integrate custom scripts/automation tools with REST APIs

• Ability to quickly adapt to changing technologies and learn new skills

• Ability to follow architecture design, have basic concepts of application, solution, network and security architecture

• Leadership - No supervisory responsibilities but provides guidance to team members in Azure skills and technology.

• Problem Solving - Solves problems in straightforward situations where analysis of situations or data require a review of a variety of factors; exercises judgement within defined methods and practices to determine appropriate action. Gathers information and requirements to solve problems.

• Ability to effectively communicate with a variety of people, such as engineers and non-technical coworkers