Description
Azure DevOps Engineer
Leeds, but home based
3 to 6 months
£400 per day Inside IR35
We are looking for a Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer with a strong Microsoft Windows Server based background, to provide direct technical implementation and architectural planning support across a number Azure cloud projects.
One of the major/pivotal projects in this space is the Cloud Migration project, which is looking to migrate up to 1500 Windows and Linux Servers to Microsoft Azure
Key Activities and Responsibilities:
- Roll out and support of Azure Migrate across physical and virtual estate.
- Identification of server/server move/application groups for Azure migration.
- Readiness and remediation of Servers and applications ready for Azure hosting.
- Planning and delivery of pre and post migration system and technical testing.
- Post migration server and application support with eventual handover to BAU.
- Optimising Azure server workloads for security, cost, and operational support.
- Automation of Azure server administration and key management tasks.
- Implement ITOM practice for images, updates, event management, desired state, etc.
- Deliver comprehensive Azure BCDR and resilience against business needs and budgets.
- Ownership of backlog, risk and rectification tasks related to Azure platform in general.
- Supporting the Design and implementation of general Azure based projects.
- Supporting Azure DevOps, DevTest labs, CI/CD and Infrastructure as code project initiatives.
- Support Azure architects in continuous improvement of IaaS and Azure platform designs.
- Supporting architect and PM in managing 3rd party projects.
- Ensuring security is at the heart of everything we do with the Azure cloud services.
- Coaching and mentoring BAU operational teams to take over long term operations.
- Building and maintaining good working relationships with colleagues across IT, internal and external customers and suppliers in order to ensure effective and efficient delivery of solutions
Skills and Experience
- Azure Administrator Associate certification (AZ-100 and AZ-101) or equivalent.
- Azure Solutions Architect certification (AZ-300 and AZ-301) or equivalent.
- Azure DevOps certification (AZ-400) or equivalent.
- Experience of managing large scale Azure infrastructure over a sustained period of time.
- Strong experience of IaaS management and optimisation on Azure.
- Strong experience of PaaS web services on Azure - App services, ASE's, API, APIMs, etc.
- Strong experience of storage services on Azure - blob, File, Data Lake, warehousing, CDN.
- Played a lead role in a large scale server and/or storage migration project to Azure.
- Strong experience of windows server management across large and complex estates.
- Strong experience of Scripting and automation with PowerShell and Kusto Query.
- Strong experience of Hyper-V and VMware administration and advanced operations.
- Experience of SQL Server Migration with PaaS transformation
Please send CV for a quick turnaround.