Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - 100% Remote

Company: Caliber Home Loans, Inc.
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Caliber Home Loans, Inc. is one of the nation's fastest-growing mortgage lenders. We didn't move into the fast lane because of clever marketing campaigns or flashy television ads -- our talented employees worked hard to help us rise to the top of our industry.
POSITION SUMMARY Caliber IT Systems is looking for that rare individual that is an experienced Windows Systems Administrator that has built upon this foundation to become a seasoned DevOps Engineer. This position will be responsible for automating and deploying Caliber's applications to on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure ranging from traditional (server, storage, network) as well as containers and application infrastructure (web servers, databases, etc.). You will use your scripting and coding skills to build automation, including validation and tests, to integrate with deployment pipelines to ensure all environments delivered for use is fully functional, secure, and compliant. You will engage in operational support escalations to help debug and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and refactoring. You will work collaboratively across the organization with InfoSec, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Development teams to continue to improve the delivery of Caliber's mission-critical systems.

QUALIFICATIONSThe ideal candidate will have a technical bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience in systems administration and 3 years of systems administration with a strong emphasis on automation, coding, and scripting. Experience managing infrastructure for the US mortgage industry is a plus.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Building Pipelines in Azure DevOps for infrastructure delivery
• Building automation to integrate with Pipelines using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, MS Desired State Configuration, ARM, etc.
• Setting up development, test, and production environments for websites/systems and promoting code between them
• Configuring DNS records
• Monitoring servers using things like LogicMonitor, Grafana, and Native OS Performance monitoring
• Responding to and fixing server and application infrastructure issues
• Assisting other developers working in these environments
• Developing DevOps related applications
• Fixing/patching/upgrading code, plugins, extensions, and applications as needed
• Automating processes
• Building applications as needed to support the environment
  
  REQUIRED SKILLS
  Administration
  • Experience with infrastructure automation processes (Terraform, DSC, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or others) and ability to write custom manifests, artifacts, and resources
  • Experience with current virtualization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
  • Experience with PowerShell, Python Bash/Shell, etc.
  • Experience with application infrastructure like IIS, MSSQL, RabbitMQ, caching technologies, etc.
  • Passion for "security first" policies
  • Ability to troubleshoot issues on complex server environments, log tailing, etc
  • Willingness to be on call for infrastructure issues
    DevOps Engineer
    • 3 years of solid development with languages like PowerShell, Python, Bash/Shell, etc.
    • Experience with CI/CD frameworks (Azure DevOps preferred, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.)
    • Experience with IaC frameworks and tools (Ansible, DSC, Chef, etc.)
    • The ability to translate business requirements into system design
    • Successful track record collaborating with teams and resolving issues that arise
    • Exceptional debugging skills using native OS tools and debuggers
    • Experience with Version Control Systems (preferably git, but at least Subversion)
      DESIRABLE SKILLS
      • Azure Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, AKS, etc.)
      • Ability to analyze slow processes/transactions and suggest improvements
      • Experience with F5, Azure, and other load balancing solutions (i.e. Nginx, HAProxy, etc.)
      • Develop solutions based on organizational and users' needs, strategies, and goals, including recommendations for improvements based on researching relevant infrastructure solutions.
      • Experience with queue/caching technologies (RabbitMQ, MSMQ, NCache, Redis)
      • Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment
      • Familiarity with process control and logging
      • Experience with PagerDuty/xMatters
      • Ability to estimate server requirements based on site traffic and software platform.
      • Experience deploying to a load-balanced environment
      • Know your way around Azure Cloud Services
      • Experience creating CI/CD pipelines
      • Experience generating code coverage reports
      • Agile Scrum and Kanban experience
      • Experience with Azure DevOps or Jira
      • Experience with the Gitflow methodology

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