Azure DevOps Engineer

About Us:

Ensono is an expert technology adviser and managed service provider. As a relentless ally, we accelerate clients’ digital transformation to achieve business outcomes that stand to last. Our dedicated team helps organizations optimize today’s systems across any hybrid environment with services such as consulting, mainframe and application modernization, public cloud migration, and cloud-native development. With certified experts in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and recognized as Microsoft Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year, Ensono has over 3500+ associates globally and is headquartered in greater Chicago.

We care about your success, offering comprehensive strategic and managed services for mission-critical applications. Our Advisory and Consulting services can help upfront with an application strategy or find the right places for your applications – whether it’s public, multi or hybrid cloud, or mainframe. And because we span across all mission-critical platforms, we can meet you wherever you are in your digital transformation journey, with 24/7 support when you need it. We are your relentless ally, flexing with you when challenges emerge so you don’t feel stuck in place. With cross-platform certifications and decades of experience, our technology experts have become an extension of your team so you’re continuously innovating – doing more with less while remaining secure. And that’s just the beginning.

We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. That’s why we’ve outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it’s important that you meet all Required Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the lead engineer on small to medium client deploy projects

• Provide AZURE subject matter expertise advice and assistance to pre-sales architects

• Installation, configuration, and ongoing management of O/S and AZURE services.

• Implementing and maintaining custom client machine images and centralized configuration management to enable quick repeatable builds and auto-scaling.

• Maintaining high availability through proactive measures.

• Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.

• Ensuring clients & partners are updated on status of work and issues.

• Raise, investigate, and resolve problems and known errors in line with the problem management process.

• Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working, automation, and processes via our continual improvement Kanban board.

• Availability in an On-Call Rota to provide 24x7 support for Ensono’s AZURE clients.

• Proactively keep up to date on AZURE services and developments.

• Buddy new members of the team

Years of Experience Desired/Required

• 4+ years’ experience in highly supporting customer-focused mission critical environments (e.g., high profile websites or enterprise infrastructure) essential.

• 2+ years’ experience of engineering, architecting, or supporting AZURE solutions.

• Hold several current AZURE Associate and Professional level Certifications

• Experience of building and maintaining scalable and auto-scaled environments using automation and configuration management tools (e.g., CloudFormation/Terraform and Ansible) beneficial or can be gained.

• Scripting ability in one or more of Python, PowerShell, Bash, Perl

• Experience of using Git for version control useful

• Experience of working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker)

• Experience of Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline technology useful or can be gained.

• Good knowledge of TCP/IP.

• A degree in a computing-related discipline preferred or equivalent ability and knowledge.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience working in an ITIL environment beneficial.

• Desire to continually grow, develop and improve.

• Must be independent, self-motivated, a self-starter and possess a good working attitude
Client focused, and results driven

• Able to implement supportable solutions and make the complex simple.

Additional Information:

Certification in the relevant area of primary skill. AZ 900 (Azure Fundamentals) and AZ 104 (Azure Administrator Associate), AZ-305 (Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) and AZ-500 (Microsoft Azure Security Technologies)