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Job Description

In this role, you will be working in a team of Version 1 and customer staff in the Irish public sector.  The team manages a mature and growing Microsoft Azure cloud environment, with an interesting mix of ongoing life cycle management tasks as well as new green-field and cloud migration projects.  The customer has been one of Version 1’s longest standing cloud customers and is key the success of Version 1.  The customer is committed to a cloud first strategy and is growing their cloud footprint at >50% per annum. 

As an Azure DevOps Consultant, you will work on a wide variety of project’s for the customer including public facing infrastructure of critical national importance. 

Key Duties & Responsibilities 

• Responding to Cloud team tickets and troubleshooting Azure issues 
• Implementation of Azure best practice architecture over IaaS, PaaS and SaaS infrastructures. 
• Performance Testing framework implementation 
• Azure scaling  
• Production Support (including out of hours support) 
• Release Management 
• Operational enhancements (build and release pipelines, Azure infrastructure, monitoring) 
• Azure Kubernetes Service strategic infrastructure 
• Identification, ownership and implementation of Continuous Service Improvements (CSIs) to improve team efficiency, streamline operation and reduce customer costs. 

• Experience of Azure CI/CD YAML Pipelines 
• Understanding of Azure API Management  
• Infrastructure as Code experience  
• Experience of Microsoft Power Platform or other low code solutions 
• Azure Active Directory, Policies and security experience. 
• Kubernetes and Docker experience  
• Azure DevOps experience 
• Microsoft Certifications preferable but not essential – The role is ideal for someone wishing to gain a wide range of Microsoft cloud certifications. 
• Experience in .Net, Python, Helm, SaFE, Jira, Confluence would be preferable but not essential.