Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

We are currently looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Wolters Kluwer Digital eXperience Group (DXG), which co-creates state-of-the-art digital solutions with our businesses around the world. The DXG mandate is to increase revenue in the company’s digital products through innovation in, and adoption of, advanced technologies and tools to meet and further anticipate customer needs.

Basic Function

As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with development teams that build and maintain front end applications and services within Wolters Kluwer worldwide to create and deploy releases regularly. You will be required to create the necessary CI and CD pipelines using industry standard tools. You will work with development and test automation teams to create continuous delivery pipelines. You will have the discretion to make key decisions on automation processes, tools to build sites and software as effectively as possible.

Role and Responsibilities:

· Develop, maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines for development and maintenance projects.

· Implement integrations that solve customer needs (configuration, support and troubleshoot issues with business software).

· Proactively monitor systems and identify if there are any performance issues.

· Troubleshoot production systems following an incident

· Script and automate the creation of infrastructure.

· Coordinate design-related infrastructure and setup at different stages of the project.

· Maintain working knowledge of current infrastructure and future trends.

· Guide fellow engineers by clarifying requirements, providing technical insights, and removing roadblocks

· Keep up to date with the latest technologies and trends and provide inputs / recommendations as required.

· Develop, introduce and document new processes.

Other Duties

· The position will require working on some evening, weekend and holiday hours.

· May perform other duties as assigned by management.

Required Qualifications:

· Minimum 5 years' experience in a Cloud DevOps or Software Engineering role

· Proficient in English

· Experience with release management, product rollouts, and service operationalization

· Deep understanding of Cloud security architecture.

· Proven experience deploying and operating in Azure Cloud

· Solid understanding of core Azure Services, working knowledge of CLIs, and cloud software development kit (SDKs)

· Proficient in Power Shell, Shell Scripting Languages.

· Hands-on knowledge of implementing multi-staged CI / CD with tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, BitBucket. Git.

· Strong knowledge in infrastructure-as-a-code approaches with Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.

· Strong knowledge in Micro Services, Container based architecture and the corresponding deployment tools and techniques.

· Strong knowledge on various monitoring tools such as Azure Application Insights, Zabbix, Nagios.

· Must have in-depth knowledge of Clustering, Load Balancing, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, Auto Scaling, etc.

· Experience working in an agile environment

· Strong attention to detail with excellent problem-solving skills

· Proven track record of working with external customers to understand their needs and translate into technical solutions

· Desire and ability to thrive in a distributed technical environment while working on multiple projects simultaneously

· Passionate about latest technology trends with a strong desire for innovation

· Self-motivated and self-managing and able to work independently

Preferred qualifications

· Understanding of OAuth/OIDC.

· Past experience with system administration

· Experience with MS SQL Server

· Prior experience as developer

· Familiarity with IT service management (ITSM)/Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework and enterprise IT change management processes