Azure Architect - CI/CD Pipeline

Description :

Responsibilities :

- Architect and design cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost effectiveness while considering operational concerns and non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, and backups.

- Develop Infrastructure as code using Terraform for automated provisioning and management of cloud resources.

- Collaborate with DevOps teams to build CI/CD pipelines needed to deploy application code and streamline deployment processes.

- Implement solutions that adhere to cloud security principles, including Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Actions and Network Security.

- Build solutions that implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts specifically around monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, and disaster recovery.

- Respond to security findings identified by the security teams, implementing remediation measures to mitigate risks and ensure compliance with industry standards.

- Ability to design solutions with operational concerns in mind, including non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, backups, and restore procedures.

- Mentor junior team members on cloud architecture principles, best practices, and emerging technologies.

Basic Qualifications :

- 10+ years of experience in core application development and implementing end-to-end solutions.

- 5+ years of experience working as a Git hub Actions Architect or in a similar role.

Preferred Skills :

- Application Stack : Microservices, Spring Boot, JPA, ReactJS, relational databases

- Cloud : Microsoft Azure

- Database : Azure Postgres, Cosmos DB

- Messaging : Azure Service Bus, Azure Event hub, Azure Event Grid, Solace and Kafka

- Database Operations : Configuring Backups, Restores, replication and Failover

- Traceability : Azure monitoring, logging and alerting services

- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions

- Understanding of the SCRUM agile process

- Financial Services domain knowledge

Certifications (Preferred) :

- Microsoft Certified : Microsoft Certified Azure Architect Associate

- HashiCorp Certified : Terraform Associate