Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - Full remote - Contractor in USD

For an international project in Chennai, we are urgently looking for a Full Remote Senior Azure DevOps Engineer. The DevOps Engineer needs to be well versed with (Software Development LifeCycle) SDLC methodologies and various DevOps tools/extensions, including Azure DevOps.

We are looking for a motivated contractor. Candidates need to be fluent in English.

Tasks and responsibilities:

Design and implement Azure DevOps solution for automating Agile based change management operations covering the following SDLC areas:

o Demand Management/Pipeline/Reporting

o Planning / Project Management

o Business Analysis/Requirements

o Systems Design & Development

o Testing (Test case to Requirement Traceability)

o Deployment Management

o Compliance

o Performance Monitoring

o Security

o Knowledge Management (KB)

Develop solutions to migrate TFS (On-Prem Azure DevOps) collections, with customized process templates, to Azure DevOps SaaS. Solution must include migration of work items, repos, dashboard, queries, users/groups, wikis, and pipelines along with any history;

Work closely with the SDLC working group in understanding, implementing, and testing the requirements;

Leverage the available tools in integrating the SDLC areas. Recommend new extensions/tools and work with teams in seeking required approvals and implementing them;

Develop a robust requirement management capability using Modern Requirements 4 DevOps (MR4D) tool and iGrafx;

Develop management dashboards and reports;

Develop complex custom work item tracking process workflow that can be uploaded onto Azure DevOps. Develop custom fields as part of the workflow for capturing the necessary information;

Identify and configure the project roles. Handle related project administration activities;

Work with the teams in rolling out the new SDLC landscape for various projects;

Support and maintain the production environment, fix issues raised by the users;

Document the entire process;

Train the application teams;

Profile:

Bachelor or Master degree;

+7 years of DevOps Engineer experience;

Hands on experience on Azure Platform and its various offerings;

Experience in cloud architecture and design;

Expert in implementing end-to-end Azure DevOps on-prem and SaaS/Cloud solutions;

Experience in implementing COTS as well as home grown solutions for on-prem to cloud migration of Azure DevOps;

Expert in Source Control Management, including branching, integration, and merging techniques;

Experience performing integrations for production builds and server hot fixes;

Experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools and Source Control systems, such as GIT, Azure DevOps/VSTS and TFS;

Hands-on experience in setting up DevOps pipeline for a project (Automated deployments with Continuous Integration/Delivery workflows);

Experience with software build and deploy tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins;

Exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar - Scripting experience in Groovy or PowerShell;

Experience with static code analysis for codes quality and security, such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Veracode;

Hands on experience with integration of testing using tools, such as, Selenium, Test Links, etc;

Experience in creating and customizing Azure/VSTS/TFS process workflows;

Proficiency in designing, developing and implementing business processes and workflows, specifically, creating and customizing Azure/VSTS/TFS work item tracking workflows;

Experience in integrating tools, such as, Jira, Version One, Service Now, etc. using protocols REST, JSON, SOAP, and others;

Proficiency in implementing APM solutions, such as Azure Insights;

Experience with Cloud Native Platforms including Kubernetes, Docker Enterprise, Azure AKS;

Fluent in English;