Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

Aspire Software is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Lebanon.

Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.

What your day will look like:

• Design, build and maintain the infrastructure required to support the efficient,
• predictable, and consistent release of Kivuto’s suite of products.
• Adopt, standardize, and incorporate various toolsets into maintainable CI/CD pipelines.
• Work hand in hand with the Development and IT groups in an Agile environment.
• Identify opportunities to “automate everything” and utilize infrastructure as code to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Prime for the rollout of fixes and upgrades to Kivuto’s production environments.
• Securing software and infrastructure to prevent security breaches and other vulnerabilities and maintain compliance posture.
• Establish, optimize, and maintain virtual environment infrastructure to balance cost optimization, resource availability and development efficiency.
• Support the platform in development and production as needed including willing to be on-call on occasion as required.
• Be a curious, discerning envelope pusher, refuse to accept the status quo.
• Top-notch decision-making and collaborative abilities

Requirements

• Degree in computer engineering, sciences, or equivalent experience

Azure Specific Experience/Skillsets

• Infrastructure As Code experience with Ansible, Chef, ARM
• BIC Cloud Deployment such as Implementing Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
• Migration of workloads from IaaS to PaaS (e.g. moving SQL Server AG to Azure SQL Hyperscale)
• Implementation of Azure Landing Zone architectures for BC/DR
• Implementation and management of Azure Cost Controls
• Implementation and troubleshooting with Azure Monitor/Application Insights
• Prior experience at all phases of the software product life cycle, from conception to extinction
• Strong understanding of Agile processes and methodologies
• Demonstratable experience with CI/CD and general DevOps best practices, experience with Azure DevOps would be an asset
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)
• Demonstrated experience using a wide variety of coding languages. (C#, Python, Perl, and shell script considered an asset)
• You should be familiar with the following Cloud and DevOps tools and technologies to support the installation, configuration, maintenance, and scaling

Production environment:

• Containers and Orchestration Docker, Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, EKS or equivalent), Terraform

Cloud Platforms

• Azure, AWS
• Service Configuration and Scalability
• ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash/fluentD/Filebeat, Kibana, Confluent
• Cloud/Kafka

Databases

• MS SQL Server, Postgres, CosmosDB

Development Pipelines

• Git (Gitflow, Trunk-Based Development)
• Build Systems and Approaches
• MSBuild, Docker, NPM scripts,
• Package Management
• NuGet, NPM, Docker Hub, helm

Scripting

• Bash, Powershell, Cmd, Python
• Operating Systems
• Windows, Linux, MacOs