Devops Solution Architect at Saxon Global in Frisco, TX

Company Description

Saxon Global is one of the fastest growing Inc 500 Companies in
the US, providing enhanced IT consulting, and engineering solution
services from past 16 years. Saxon global specializes in Business
Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data & Cloud and provides IT tools and
services to help organizations across industry verticals such as
Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, Banking and Media
Entertainment for their continued growth.

Job Description

Job Title: DevOps Architect

Job Duration: 3+ Months Contract to Hire role

Interview Method: Phone then In Person

Address: Frisco Texas USA 75034

Working hours: 8am-5pm

Start date: ASAP

POSITION SUMMARY:

Under general direction of the Director of Platform Engineering or other director level associate, operating as a champion for DevOps practices across the organization, providing solution design and implementation guidance, coaching, mentoring, and technical support.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 3+ Years of experience in a Development Operations organization leading, administering, building and maintaining an automation environment

• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architectures

• Track record of delivering applications and cloud-based infrastructure delivery in an agile environment

• Experience with automated deployment, continuous integration, and release engineering tools

• Knowledge of software development and software testing methodologies

• Knowledge of cloud environments and how to implement cloud architectures

• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, auto-scaling and auto-healing concepts

• Knowledge in various branching/merging methodologies and release procedures

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely and a flexible mindset to handle a quickly changing culture

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)

• Experience with Microsoft tool chains (.NET, VSO/VSTS, Powershell)

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (ARM Templates/Terraform/CloudFormation)

• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools (Bamboo, VSTS, TeamCity)

• Experience with Monitoring Tools (Splunk, ELK, Data Dog)

• Experience with Scripting (Powershell, Bash, Python, etc)

• Experience with configuration management (Chef, Ansible, or Puppet)

• Experience with Git based workflows

• Experience working with REST APIs

OUR STACK:

• Azure Cloud PaaS

• Visual Studio Team Services

• .NET / Angular2

• Azure Resource Manager Templates

• Powershell / Azure Automation

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as a champion/SME for DevOps practices across the organization, providing coaching, mentoring, and technical support

• Guide design and Implementation of DevOps solutions

• Bring new and emerging concepts in DevOps to our organization

Qualifications

DevOps

• Azure Cloud PaaS

• Visual Studio Team Services

• .NET / Angular2

• Azure Resource Manager Templates

• Powershell / Azure Automation

Additional Information

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