Expert Azure Devops

Purpose

• The Azure DevOps Expert will support the IS Datacenter & Hosting Team and their service providers by automating operational activities, enhancing deployment pipelines, and ensuring efficient, reliable, and secure cloud services through DevOps best practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), and deployments of new services and components in the Cloud (MS Azure) or on hyperconverged on-prem hosting solutions based on MS Azure Stack HCI through DevOps best practices.
• She / he supports creating and managing the DevOps processes for the IS Datacenter & Hosting Team with the objective to have all deployments created with “Infrastructure as A Code.”
• She / he supports as L3 Expert in executing the hosting Infrastructure operations and execution of Projects for ISP worldwide.
• She / he supports the deployment of new hosting solutions on-prem, in central datacenters or in the cloud, their integration into the ISP IT Infrastructure and their proper documentation.
• She / he contributes to the design, development and implementation of automated deployment and management processes to improve lead-time for delivery and the service availability for the business.

Areas of responsibility

Operations & Support

• Develop and maintain toolkits for provisioning resources on MS Azure or MS Azure Stack HCI, using Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Jenkins. Ensure that designs from Architecture are implemented efficiently, supporting continuous delivery and automated infrastructure deployments.
• Works with Cybersecurity Team and Architecture to ensure the Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud resources are secured and following the standards.
• Make evolutions to all deployment pipelines and propose improvements.
• Implement the DevOps principles and “Infrastructure as A Code” practice.
• Support the creation of DevOps organization processes, documentation, and planning.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Contribute to the design global Standards (Windows Server Technology, Backups, DRP Solutions, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, MS Azure IaaS, and PaaS) and ensure they are deployed.
• Support and manage the deployment and integration of new services or new Business Applications on-prem, in datacenters or in the cloud by coordinating activities between the Business, the Application Teams and the Teams in charge or the RUN operations for the design, the ordering and implementation.
• Provide 3rd level support for Incident- and Change Management for the hosting infrastructure on-prem, in the datacenters and in the Cloud.
• Contribute to Major Incident resolution process, coordinating all stakeholders, ensuring processes are correctly followed and adequate communication with stakeholders and management is well performed, with the support of the area Incident Manager.
• Implement, operate and maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies (Disaster Recovery Plans)
• Monitor and test Application Performance for potential bottlenecks, identify practical solutions.
• Proactively ensure the highest level of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Define, maintain and communicate procedures, norms, and standards for his field of expertise
• Provide problem solving leadership.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement in automation, cloud security, and deployment processes, ensuring best practices are integrated into all stages of the DevOps lifecycle, from development to production.
• Provide advice, assistance, information, and training within the expertise field to peers.
• Contributes to return of experience analyses with the aim of improving delivery.
• Ensure that the documentation in his field is coherent, available, maintained, distributed, and applied.
• Ensure the recurrent review and update of the knowledge database in his field.

Security

• Guarantee the respect of the cyber security principles defined and reports any abnormalities.
• Embed security by design principles into all DevOps processes, ensuring compliance with best practices while enhancing the security posture of the cloud and hybrid environments.
•  Contribute to return on experience analysis with the aim of improving the hardening.

Expected results

• Successful automation and scaling of deployments using Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), reducing manual intervention and improving delivery times.
• Support of the RUN Team with the delivery of solutions for automated operational processes for the complete asset lifecycle.
• Modernization of the IT Hosting Infrastructure by replacing Legacy Systems and Solutions
• Successful implementation of processes for MS Azure and on-prem Industrial Hosting Infrastructure Operations
• Processes for the CMDB Management are in place and the CMDB is up to date

Position sizing

• Within the Europe Datacenter & Cloud delivery with global reach
• Required skills and qualifications

Mandatory

• Solid experience in hosting infrastructure operations
• Solid Cloud operations experience, especially in MS Azure
• Extensive experience with MS Azure DevOps, including automation through tools like Terraform and Jenkins, to streamline continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Solid experience in automating the delivery and the run operations in Hybrid Cloud environments
• Proven experience in MS Azure Administration: RBAC and resources
• Excellent skills in PowerShell scripting
• Experience in Move to Cloud Projects
• Solid experience in Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, MS Azure Stack HCI)
• Technical Skills in Network, Windows & Linux OS, Database technologies (Oracle, MS SQL), Veeam, Hosting Hardware
• Language skills: Fluent English required, French

Preferred:

• Preferred: MS Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification (AZ-400) and Azure Administrator (AZ-104), demonstrating expertise in managing DevOps processes and automating deployments on Azure.
• ITIL certification

Education:

• Master’s degree preferred, below acceptable depending on experience and competencies.

Competency model skills:

• Structured, Self-Driven, Transparence and being reactive.
• Business sensitive and customer focused
• Customer satisfaction/ service oriented
• Ability to manage and make quick decision in critical situations
• Team works in international teams
• Risk Awareness
• Result focus
• Work with Standards
• Innovation Awareness
• Continuous improvement
• Transmission of Knowledge
• Influencing and networking