Praxent is a company transforming the financial services sector by modernizing outdated customer-facing software applications. The Senior DevOps Engineer will enhance the team's capacity to deliver projects, mentor junior developers, and ensure successful delivery of sprint commitments through effective management of pipelines and environments.
Responsibilities:
- Enhance the team’s capacity to deliver assigned stories by end of sprint
- Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout the project team
- Develop features requiring a novel technical design and act as a mentor to more junior developers through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews
- Enhance the team’s capacity by documenting plans to anticipated risks/blockers, advancing best practices, and mentoring peers and more junior team members
- Serve as technical SME in the sprint, ensuring successful delivery of the sprint commitment by managing pipelines, environments, and oversight of key deliverables
- Present technical and sprint demos, such as completed API methods and automated deployment processes during sprint review meetings
- Ensuring the team understands deployment requirements and environment standards, tracking pipeline health and release readiness daily, limiting failed deployments and rollbacks, delivering infrastructure and automation work as assigned, finding opportunities to increase deployment frequency and reduce lead time
- Act as the technical interface for the client to help guide them on infrastructure and release decisions without overloading them with DevOps jargon
Requirements:
- Deep Azure DevOps expertise, including custom ADO project configuration, release pipeline management, and CI/CD process design
- Strong Azure cloud architecture skills, deploying WebApps, Functions, VMs, and Scale-Sets using IaC tools like Bicep/ARM templates
- Proficient in monitoring and observability via Application Insights, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics for operational reliability
- Skilled in scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python), Git version control, and containerization with Docker/Kubernetes
- Solid Microsoft stack background (.NET, ASP.NET, C#, MSSQL) with experience in microservices and inter-service communication
- Familiar with Agile/Scrum ceremonies and continuous code quality tools like SonarQube
- 5-8 years professional experience in relevant technology and projects, including ongoing adherence of best practices, experience managing DevOps pipelines
- Experience presenting to client stakeholders and communicating technical and business value
- Experience understanding and articulating the business outcomes that your development projects impact
- Experience with coaching and mentoring, demonstrated through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews
- may include intensive programs, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a equivalent experience
- We Care Deeply, Always Deliver, Never Settle, Do It Together, Own the Outcome, and approach every situation with a CAN DO mentality