Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain the infrastructure required t*support the efficient, predictable, and consistent release of Kivuto’s suite of products.
- Adopt, standardize, and incorporate various toolsets int*maintainable CI/CD pipelines.
- Work hand in hand with the Development and IT groups in an Agile environment.
- Identify opportunities t*“automate everything” and utilize infrastructure as code to increase efficiency and reliability.
- Prime for the rollout of fixes and upgrades to Kivuto’s production environments.
- Securing software and infrastructure to prevent security breaches and other vulnerabilities and maintain compliance posture.
- Establish, optimize, and maintain virtual environment infrastructure to balance cost optimization, resource availability and development efficiency.
- Support the platform in development and production as needed including willing to be on-call on occasion as required.
- Be a curious, discerning envelope pusher, refuse to accept the status quo.
- Top-notch decision-making and collaborative abilities.
Qualifications:
- Degree in computer engineering, sciences, or equivalent experience
- Azure Specific Experience/Skillsets
- Infrastructure As Code experience with Ansible, Chef, ARM
- BIC Cloud Deployment such as Implementing Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
- Migration of workloads from IaaS t*PaaS (e.g. moving SQL Server AG to Azure SQL Hyperscale)
- Implementation of Azure Landing Zone architectures for BC/DR
- Implementation and management of Azure Cost Controls
- Implementation and troubleshooting with Azure Monitor/Application Insights
- Prior experience at all phases of the software product life cycle, from conception to extinction
- Strong understanding of Agile processes and methodologies
- Demonstratable experience with CI/CD and general DevOps best practices, experience with Azure DevOps would be an asset
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)
- Demonstrated experience using a wide variety of coding languages. (C#, Python, Perl, and shell script considered an asset)
You should be familiar with the following Cloud and DevOps tools and technologies to support the installation, configuration, maintenance, and scaling in a Production environment:
- Containers and Orchestration
- Docker, Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, EKS or equivalent), Terraform
- Cloud Platforms
- Azure, AWS
- Service Configuration and Scalability
- ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash/fluentD/Filebeat, Kibana, Confluent Cloud/Kafka)
- Databases
- MS SQL Server, Postgres, CosmosDB
- Development Pipelines
- Git (Gitflow, Trunk-Based Development)
- Build Systems and Approaches
- MSBuild, Docker, NPM scripts,
- Package Management
- NuGet, NPM, Docker Hub, helm
- Scripting
- Bash, Powershell, Cmd, Python
- Operating Systems
- Windows, Linux, MacOs
Company Profile
Aspire Software, the operational arm of Valsoft Corp, operates and manages Valsoft’s global portfolio of wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.