Description
Our high-visibility client builds and operates social media websites with a small team, and currently has a premium contract offering for a Build/Operations Engineer who will be involved in all phases of development and operation.
Duties include:
- Ensuring builds of various projects happen regularly, diagnosing build errors and issues
- Managing the deployment of releases to the Azure data center, including occasional more complex steps including data migration
- Creating new deployment configurations and subscriptions in Microsoft Windows Azure
- Acting as first line of defense in diagnosing live site issues for various client properties
- Driving monitorability improvements back into the engineering team
- Defining alerts and thresholds that indicate systemic problems
- Understanding of system capacity needs and working with engineering to define forecasts
- Role will entail 60-70% operations of sites and 30%-40% build/deployment
Qualifications:
- 4 plus years work related experience required
- Knowledge of applicable Microsoft development tools, including Team Foundation Server build and source code control systems required
- Knowledge of Windows required
- Must have C# skills and experience
- Experience operating systems in a cloud-hosted environment (preferably Windows Azure) may be required
- Ability to diagnose issues with websites, skill with system logs and remote operations of Servers preferred
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
This contract position is expected to be 6 months in duration with possibility of extension.