Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote, Contract, Anywhere from Pakistan, USD Salary)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure, including hybrid cloud environments and infrastructure management.
• 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, including Terraform, Bicep, and ARM Templates, with expert-level knowledge of Terraform modules, workspaces, providers, state management, and remote state.
• Practical experience using Bicep and ARM Templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Knowledge of Terraform best practices, including modularity, versioning, reusability, security, and compliance with organizational standards.
• 5+ years of experience with source control systems, including GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure Repositories, and Team Foundation Server.
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitLab CI.
• Hands-on experience integrating Terraform deployments into GitHub Actions pipelines and building deployment pipelines for multiple environments, including SDB, Dev, Integration, UAT, and Production.
• 3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
• 5+ years of experience supporting DevOps/DevSecOps practices, with a strong understanding of related methodologies, infrastructure automation, and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Experience implementing automated validations and security scanning for Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services, including networking, identity and access management, storage solutions, monitoring, and governance.
• Experience managing Azure infrastructure components, including storage accounts, Key Vaults, networking components, managed identities, resource groups, and supporting services.
• Experience managing Azure Databricks workspaces, clusters, pools, access policies, ACLs, repositories, and secrets.
• Experience managing Azure Data Factory infrastructure, including instances, integration runtimes, linked services, triggers, and pipelines.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including DNS, firewalls, and load balancers.
• Familiarity with observability tools, including Dynatrace, Application Insights, New Relic, and the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps.
• 3+ years of experience with mobile application deployments, along with familiarity with Adobe AEM Cloud and GitOps.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, including Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
• Experience with database platforms, including SQL Server, MongoDB, and DB2.
• Experience with Snowflake or other Data Platform components.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with coworkers and cross-functional teams to support various projects.
• Coordinate with internal and vendor teams on project execution and deployment activities.
• Partner with the DevOps Architect to maintain solution consistency, quality, and compliance with organizational standards.
• Automate new deployment processes and maintain existing ones to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Recommend improvements to development processes for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Manage hybrid deployments across on-premises datacenters and Microsoft Azure using industry-standard tools.
• Integrate Terraform deployments into existing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Implement automated validations and security scanning for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Develop deployment pipelines for multi-environment provisioning, including SDB, Dev, Integration, UAT, and Production.
• Manage infrastructure components, including storage accounts, Key Vaults, networking components, managed identities, resource groups, and supporting services.
• Maintain Terraform code in line with best practices for modularity, versioning, reusability, security, and compliance.