DevOps / Cloud Automation Engineer
We are looking for a dedicated and experienced DevOps / Azure Cloud Automation Engineer to join our Automation team. This role is focused on migrating our existing infrastructure from IBM Cloud to Azure and includes significant responsibilities around Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The successful candidate will demonstrate deep expertise in cloud services, container orchestration, and the full lifecycle management of virtual machines from workload migration and packaging, deployment, post deployment configuration and patching.
This is a fully remote role embedded with our client – a Swedish supply chain management company.
Responsibilities
- Work on the migration of existing infrastructure and applications from IBM Cloud to Azure.
- Design, implement, and manage continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps and Octopus Deploy.
- Administer and optimize Azure environments, including management of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
- Build, maintain, and manage Windows and Linux virtual machine automation. Automate provisioning and deployment tasks using technologies such as PowerShell, BASH and Ansible.
- Manage containerized applications using Docker and orchestrate deployments using Kubernetes on both Azure and residual IBM Cloud platforms, as necessary during the migration phase.
- Develop and maintain Helm charts for effective package management within Kubernetes environments.
- Working knowledge of observability platforms such as Grafana / Loki / Mimir (Prometheus) stack, Log Analytics, App Insights and general application instrumentation.
- Monitor and enhance network performance, ensuring high levels of security and scalability across all cloud and VM environments.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to automate and streamline operational processes.
- Provide expertise and architectural assistance to other IT staff and project teams.
Required Skills and Experience
- Proven experience with Azure cloud services and Kubernetes.
- Strong background in infrastructure migration projects, ideally to Azure.
- Proficient in managing virtual machines using Ansible or similar.
- Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Advanced knowledge of Azure DevOps and Octopus Deploy.
- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell or Python / BASH.
- Solid understanding of network protocols, IP networking, and network security.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think analytically.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Previous role in a large-scale migration project.
Sounds interesting? We are excited to get to know you!
If you have any questions you would like to ask or if there is any additional information you would like to receive, please feel free to get in touch via [email protected].
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