Job Description

Overview:

Annalect is currently seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our technology team remotely, We are passionate about building distributed back-end systems in a modular and reusable way. We're looking for people who have a shared passion for data and desire to build cool, maintainable and high-quality applications to use this data. In this role you will participate in shaping our technical architecture, design and development of software products, collaborate with back-end developers from other tracks, as well as research and evaluation of new technical solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Support day-to-day execution of the various software releases needed in support of overall company objectives.
• Responsible for the release of various client websites and management of the servers on which they reside, including, but not limited to, providing access control, installation, and configuration of any ancillary or third-party software needed in support of the websites.
• Install, configure & administer Enterprise applications targeted for the Windows servers.
• Constructing CI/CD pipelines & Build and maintain cloud infrastructure through Terraform as lac. Manage Cloud networking and orchestration with Azure
• Improve and automate processes and procedures.
• Monitoring and handling incident response of the infrastructure, platforms, and core engineering services.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure, network, and application issues. Help identify and troubleshoot problems within the environment.


Qualifications:
• 5+ years of DevOps experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in administering cloud technologies on Azure,
• Hands-on Experience with IAM, Virtual Networks, Azure Functions, Azure VPN, RBAC, API Gateway, Azure VMs, SQL server.
• Hands-on experience in writing CICD pipelines in Azure DevOps in YAML, Jenkins file scripts.
• Experience in web systems engineering (Windows), should be able to deploy .NET and HTML-based websites on Windows IIS servers.
• Experience in setting up Windows servers that include installing, configuring, and managing IIS on Windows Servers, security settings and patching.
• Experience in managing SSL certificates and setting up SMTP, SNMP and NTP configurations.
• Familiarity with ASP .NET security principles along with SQL Server authentication mechanisms.
• Experience in installing, configuring, and managing SQL Server and databases in Windows, including high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Maintain database security policies along with database backup and recovery.
• Demonstrable experience of using Terraform to provision and configure infrastructure
• Scripting ability - PowerShell, Python, Bash etc. Comfortable working with Linux/Unix based operating systems (Ubuntu preferred).
• Familiarity with software development, CICD and DevOps tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Knowledge of writing Infrastructure as Code (laC) using Terraform.
• Experience with microservices, containers (Docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless computing (AWS Lambda) and distributed/scalable systems.
• Working knowledge of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) in order to properly integrate with various third-party Enterprise software applications.
• Possesses a problem-solving attitude. Creative, self-motivated, a quick study, and willing to develop new skills.
• Strong proficiency in source code control systems such as SVN/CVS, with experience in managing versioning and build processes.