Senior Azure DevOps Engineer at Ahead

As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer, you will utilize your extensive Cloud/ DevOps knowledge and experience to design, develop and deploy solutions utilizing the Cloud/DevOps platforms.

Qualifications

• Subject matter expert on Cloud/ DevOps platform
• Expert level development skills on the Cloud/ DevOps platforms
• Mastery of Azure ecosystem. Familiarity with AWS or GCP preferred.
• Strong skills integrating Cloud/ DevOps platforms with third party tools
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong project and situational awareness
• Strong communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Self-starter

Description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

AHEAD is committed to a community of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applications from women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, sexual minority groups, and all other candidates who will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives here at AHEAD.

We are on this journey to ensure that all AHEADians feel that they can authentically show up and belong at work.

As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer, you will utilize your extensive Cloud/ DevOps knowledge and experience to design, develop and deploy solutions utilizing the Cloud/DevOps platforms. You will work with a collaborative team leading, mentoring and ensuring development efforts are well documented and delivered with quality. You will work with customer service owners, process owners and various service delivery groups and participate in demos and meetings in a professional and courteous manner. The Senior Azure DevOps Engineer is a highly experienced subject matter expert on the Cloud/ DevOps platforms with strong experience designing, developing and deploying integrations with external third-party tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide solutions and thought leadership for customers using Azure platform. Expert in the Azure ecosystem.
• Lead a team of technical delivery resources on projects using DevOps tools and methodologies. Focus on continuous process improvement.
• Help customers deliver solutions to market faster using automation and CI / CD tools.
• Expert in the use of Configuration Management tools such as Ansible (or equivalent) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform).
• Experience with containers and container orchestration (ie Kubernetes).
• Strong security focus and approach required in all aspects of delivery.
• Lead in the architecture and design of complex solutions
• Lead the creation of written deliverables
• Lead client demos and working sessions
• Lead integration design sessions and deployment
• Participate as technical expert in client workshops
• Influence direct team members and external customers regarding policies, best practices and procedures
• Mentor junior staff and support project leadership
• Obtain and maintain certifications with associated qualifications

Expectations

• Recognized subject matter expert in professional discipline
• Depth of knowledge and experience enables contribution in a more complex/critical environment
• Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and / or plans
• Coordinate cross-practice and contribute to cross-practice deliverables to defined standards
• Demonstrate deep expertise across at least one technology
• Able to architect and lead deployment of moderately complex solution
• Communicate with external customers, which may include senior management, on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and / or advising
• Participate in pre-sales activities including scoping and positioning
• Identify new client opportunities inside of the practice and engages pre-sales to begin new campaigns within the practice
• Able to communicate beyond tactics and technology and can help customers management set strategic direction
• A reliable resource for marketing on thought leadership pieces for their practice
• Begin speaking at industry conferences
• Contribute to more complex workshops and understand how their area of expertise fits into our stitching message
• Drive scoping, planning, and methodology for critical projects
• Work on complex issues
• Contribute to development of innovative and high impact solutions for complex client programs
• Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and / or plans
• Work to influence direct team members, broader internal team, and external customers, possibly including senior management, to agree and accept new concepts, practices, and approaches

Why Ahead?

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

We understand that you have a life outside of work. That’s why we offer flexible paid time off, paid company holidays, and the ability for you to manage your work schedule as needed.