CICD Azure Cloud Engineer

Division: Group Technology services (GTS)

Team: Continuous Integration Tribe – CICD Integration & Adoption Services

The CICD Integration & Adoption Services (CICD IAS) squad is the single-entry point for all CICD requests.

We support application teams in adopting, building, and using CICD pipelines based on standard pipeline capabilities. This includes activities related to application build, deployment, and configuration management for both on-premises and cloud-based applications, following corporate standards and best practices

We collaborate closely with development teams and the CICD Pipeline Capabilities (CICD PC) squad who standardize, enhance, and maintain build and release capabilities

About your tasks:

• Contribute to creating CICD pipelines for on-premises (Linux and Windows) and Azure Cloud
• Liaise with developers, testers, and infrastructure experts
• Create and administer build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps, automating repetitive tasks
• Define operational self-services for DevOps and operational teams
• Validate operational documentation for deployment and configuration, ensuring traceability
• Provide second-level support to Production Operations, including on-call duties (nights and during certain weekends)

Essential Technical skills:　

• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps and Azure cloud.
• Hands-on experience in the creation of CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with using YAML pipeline and elaborating YAML templates.
• Knowledge in the usage of Terraform.
• Container-based application and related build and deployment technologies and hosting platform (Helm, OpenShift, AKS, ACI).

Good to have technical skills:

• Ansible (Tower), PowerShell scripting
• IBM MQ and IBM Integration Bus
• Kafka
• .NET and Java technology knowledge
• API management (APIM, APIC)
• Notions of security & architecture (clustering, load balancing, DMZ)
• Understanding of Agile values and principles and the Scrum framework

Required Soft skills:

• Curiosity to learn new skills
• Strong Documentation and adoption mindset
• Problem-solving and lateral thinking mindset
• Good verbal communication in English
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work in a high-availability environment (conscious and focused on the controls required to assure the required service levels) is a plus

Prior System Engineering experience is a plus for this position. On the other hand, curiosity and openness to learn new skills are absolutely required. We are looking for someone who is interested in the various aspects of integration of applications running on a Linux and/or Windows infrastructure (Security, network, middleware).