Azure Lead/Architect/Admin

Key Responsibilities:

• ☁️ Manage cloud infrastructure and automation on AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), and Azure.
• 🖥️ Deploy and maintain Windows Server environments, including Internet Information Services (IIS).
• 🐧 Administer Linux servers and ensure their security and performance.
• 🚀 Deploy .NET applications (ASP.Net, MVC, Web API, WCF, etc.) using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• 🔗 Manage source code repositories using GitLab or GitHub.
• 📊 Monitor and troubleshoot cloud and on-premises server performance and availability.
• 🤝 Collaborate with development teams to support application deployments and maintenance.
• 🔒 Implement security best practices across cloud and server environments.

Required Skills:

• ☁️ Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), and Azure cloud services.
• 🖥️ Strong understanding of Windows Server administration and IIS.
• 🐧 Proficiency in Linux server management.
• 🚀 Experience in deploying .NET applications and working with Jenkins for CI/CD automation.
• 🔗 Knowledge of version control systems such as GitLab or GitHub.
• 🛠️ Good troubleshooting skills and ability to resolve system issues efficiently.
• 📝 Strong documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• 🖥️ Experience with scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, or Python) for automation.
• 📦 Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• 🔒 Understanding of networking concepts, firewalls, and security best practices.

Overview

adesso India specialises in optimization of core business processes for organizations. Our focus is on providing state-of-the-art solutions that streamline operations and elevate productivity to new heights.

Comprised of a team of industry experts and experienced technology professionals, we ensure that our software development and implementations are reliable, robust, and seamlessly integrated with the latest technologies. By leveraging our extensive knowledge and skills, we empower businesses to achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Technical Team Lead to guide a local IT Services Management Team and also acting as a software developer. In this role, you will be responsible for the application management of a B2C application to meet the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and fulfil customer expectations. 

Your Team will act as a on-call-duty team in the time between 6 pm to 8 am, 365 days a year. You will work together with the responsible Senior Project Manager in Germany. 

We are seeking a hands-on leader who thrives in both team management and operational development. Whether you have experience in DevOps and Backend or Frontend, your expertise in both leadership and technical skills will be key to success in this position.

Responsibilities:

Problem Management & Incident Management activities: Identifying and resolving technical issues and errors that arise during application usage. 

Release and Update Coordination: Planning and executing software updates, new versions, or system upgrades to keep applications up to date.

Change Management: Responsible for implementing and coordinating changes to the application, considering the impact on ongoing operations.

Requirements:

Education und Experience: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field, with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience or equivalent work experience.

Skills & Expertise:

Proficient in ITIL service management frameworks.

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Experienced in project management methodologies (Agile, Kanban).

Leadership: Very good leadership skills with a customer orientated, proactive and results driven approach. 

Communication: Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders.

Language: English on a C2 Level.

Skills & Requirements

kubeAPI high Kustomize high docker/container high Debug Tools openSSL high Curl high Azure Devops, Pipeline, Repository, Deployment, ArgoCD, Certificates: Certificate Management / SSL, LetsEncrypt, Linux Shell, Keycloak.

• Equal Experts is an innovative software delivery consultancy specializing in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors.
• We deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognized for our leadership in the application of Agile and Lean delivery methods to assure delivery.
• We are focused on hiring DevOps Engineers with skills in AWS, Automation tools, CI/CD tools and the likes.
• The DevOps Consultant will be working with an on-site client team and will be expected to mentor and share their skills and knowledge with the existing client developers.

• Continuous Delivery of quality software created by our project teams. Ensuring smooth build and release with continuous integration.
• Configuration Management - Design and implementation of deployment strategies for multiple projects.
• Virtualization and Infrastructure Provisioning.
• Maintenance and upgrade of our cloud environment (AWS).
• Version control and source code administration.
• Administration of Web Servers, Application Servers and Servlet Containers
• Setting up and managing the Automation efforts for multiple projects.

• Should have worked on Agile projects featuring weekly iterations and releases.
• Should have extensive hands-on experience with:
• Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins.
• Configuration Management tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Cloud computing using AWS, EC2.
• Hands-on experience on Kubernetes.
• Virtualization tools like Vagrant, Docker or VMWare
• You have an active presence in the DevOps community through your blogs, Stack Overflow and GitHub profiles.
• You are passionate about DevOps. You love to mentor people and evangelize about best practices and innovations in DevOps.

Profile: DevOps Engineer
Experience: 5-8 Yrs
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days

Job Descrtiption:

Technical Experience (Must Have):
Cloud: Azure
DevOps Tool: Terraform, Ansible, Github, CI-CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes
Network: Cloud Networking
Scripting Language: Any/All - Shell Script, PowerShell, Python
OS: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL etc)
Database: MongoDB

Professional Attributes: Excellent communication, written, presentation,
and problem-solving skills.

Experience: Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in Cloud Automation and
Application

Additional Information (Good to have):
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Terraform Associate
Docker
Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Role:
Building and maintaining tools to automate application and
infrastructure deployment, and to monitor operations.
Design and implement cloud solutions which are secure, scalable,
resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized.
Implementing transformation from an as is state, to the future.
Coordinating with other members of the DevOps team, Development, Test,
and other teams to enhance and optimize existing processes.
Provide systems support,  implement monitoring and logging alerting
solutions that enable the production systems to be monitored.
Writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and
services.
Writing application deployment automation using industry standard
deployment and configuration tools.
Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the
purpose of provisioning and operating client test as well as production
environments.
Implement and stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices
and tooling.

• Experience working in advanced iterative methodologies such as Agile and Safe.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfortable working in complex and demanding environments with high degree of change.
• Ability to view system perspective and to perform thorough investigations.
• Experience in frequent delivery to production.
• Microservice-based architecture (Jenkins, Docker, CI/CD, ELK)
• Experience with modern software components (Mongo, Elasticsearch, Kafka).
• Expertise in software development methodologies.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, LDAP, SSH, SAML, etc.
• Possession of a deep knowledge of development workflows with Git.
• Experience with MySQL or another relational database Environment.
• Automation testing (component, integration and end2end)

Position Summary

DevOps is a Department of Horizontal Digital, within which we have 3 different practices.

1. Cloud Engineering
2. Build and Release
3. Managed Services

This opportunity is for Cloud Engineering role who also have some experience with Infrastructure migrations, this will be a complete hands-on job, with focus on migrating clients workloads to the cloud, reporting to the Solution Architect/Team Lead and along with that you are also expected to work on different projects for building out the Sitecore Infrastructure from scratch.

We are Sitecore Platinum Partner and majority of the Infrastructure work that we are doing is for Sitecore.

Sitecore is a .Net Based Enterprise level Web CMS, which can be deployed on On-Prem, IaaS, PaaS and Containers.

So, most of our DevOps work is currently planning, architecting and deploying infrastructure for Sitecore.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• This role includes ownership of technical, commercial and service elements related to cloud migration and Infrastructure deployments.
• Person who will be selected for this position will ensure high customer satisfaction delivering Infra and migration projects.
• Candidate must expect to work in parallel across multiple projects, along with that candidate must also have a fully flexible approach to working hours.
• Candidate should keep him/herself updated with the rapid technological advancements and developments that are taking place in the industry.
• Along with that candidate should also have a know-how on Infrastructure as a code, Kubernetes, AKS/EKS, Terraform, Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent qualification.
• Total work experience of 6 to 8 Years.
• Total migration experience of 4 to 6 Years.
• Multiple Cloud Background (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Implementation knowledge of VMs, Vnet,
• Know-how of Cloud Readiness and Assessment
• Good Understanding of 6 R's of Migration.
• Detailed understanding of the cloud offerings
• Ability to Assess and perform discovery independently for any cloud migration.
• Working Exp. on Containers and Kubernetes.
• Good Knowledge of Azure Site Recovery/Azure Migrate/Cloud Endure
• Understanding on vSphere and Hyper-V Virtualization.
• Working experience with Active Directory.
• Working experience with AWS Cloud formation/Terraform templates.
• Working Experience of VPN/Express route/peering/Network Security Groups/Route Table/NAT Gateway, etc.
• Experience of working with CI/CD tools like Octopus, Teamcity, Code Build, Code Deploy, Azure DevOps, GitHub action.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementations, taking into the consideration of RTO and RPO aspects.
• Candidates with AWS/Azure/GCP Certifications will be preferred.

• JD: • 10+ years of overall industry experience
  • 5+ years of cloud experience
  • 2+ years of architect experience
  • Varied background preferred between systems and development
  o Experience working with applications, not pure infra experience
  • Azure experience – strong background using Azure for application migrations
  • Terraform experience – should mention automation technologies in job experience
  • Hands on experience delivering in the cloud
  • Must have job experience designing solutions for customers
  • IaaS Cloud architect
  workload migrations to AWS and/or Azure
  • Security architecture considerations experience
  • CI/CD experience
  • Proven applications migration track of record.