DevOps Engineer III (MS Azure)

BDO USA is a leading accounting and advisory organization that values individuality and impactful work. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer III responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a stable and efficient infrastructure to optimize application delivery across various environments.

Responsibilities:

• Builds, deploys, and maintains CI/CD pipelines
• Implements automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, and monitoring
• Monitors, troubleshoots, maintains, and continuously improves building, packaging, and deployment processes
• Utilizes a consistent DevOps approach to all phases of the process and ensure end-to-end quality
• Works with software development team to develop and provide scalable platforms
• Researches advanced development topics and new technologies to determine if applicable for implementation
• Benchmarks a variety of internally developed and third-party integrated systems for performance under heavy loads
• Designs and maintains operational processes and guidelines for both internal and external development teams
• Devises strategic plan for resolving issues while keeping the firm’s systems operational
• Reviews, verifies, and validates the software code developed by other development teams
• Performs routine application maintenance tasks
• Educates Application Services professionals on responsibilities and provides guidance regarding effective resolution of issues
• Facilitates meetings to discuss project requirements
• Acts as the technical lead on larger IT projects
• Serves as the Secondary Support person for after-hours support, as needed
• Escalates critical issues to management and implements strategies for timely resolution
• Leads the follow-up from items stemming out of team meetings
• Formulates basic strategies and develops proposals for meeting Application Support Services goals
• Provides Level IV support for specific applications as needed
• Other duties as required

Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED, required
• Four (4) or more years of experience in software development supporting or troubleshooting applications and cloud products, required
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, preferred
• Four (4) or more years of experience designing and automating CI/CD/DevOps Pipelines, preferred
• Four (4) or more years of experience working with Microsoft Azure and Azure Portal, preferred
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, preferred
• Experience with scripting tools; PowerShell, Graph API, Azure CLI, preferred
• Experience with Monitoring Tools; App Monitoring, App Insights, PowerBI, preferred
• Prior experience serving in a technical lead role on IT projects, preferred
• Advanced experience with software development methodologies, preferred
• Experience with application security monitoring technologies, preferred
• Experience in other development languages, strongly preferred
• Certifications in Microsoft AZ-900, AZ-204, AZ-400, preferred
• Experience with one (1) or more of the following products, preferred: Microsoft Azure Dev Ops or Github, Microsoft Azure and Azure Portal, Automation tools; Terraform, PowerShell, Wiz, and / or Graph API, Application Security Monitoring Tools, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server and/or Azure SQL DB, Microsoft SQL Reporting Services and/or Power BI, Microsoft SQL Integration Services and/or Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Entity Framework