Azure DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps engineer in AXA Belgium's Relationship & Contact Management team, working mainly as an Ops engineer with automation scripting duties: application lifecycle, deployments, incident management and infra-as-code on Azure (.NET, MSSQL, IIS, Dynamics 365/Dataverse) via Azure DevOps, under ITIL and Agile practices.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Belgium
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor in IT
- Minimum 5 years of experience with similar responsibilities and technical environments
- Solution minded with strong logic skills to assess resolution paths
- Fast learner, can act as a leader, works autonomously with an out-of-the-box mindset
- Good knowledge of English
- .NET server administration (IIS / Windows Server)
- Azure administration (IAM / .NET based apps / Networking)
- Azure DevOps (GIT / CI-CD pipelines IaC/YAML / permissions management)
- Azure APIM (API Management)
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure ARM templates
- Azure Cost management
- PowerShell and Azure libraries
- Server OS (Linux + Windows)
- Web service concepts (SOAP / REST / API management)
- Web servers (IIS / HAproxy / Reverse Proxy)
- Data integrations (MSSQL)
- Security concepts (SSL / certificates / security gateways / resource hardening)
- Monitoring tools (Dynatrace / Application Insights)
- Networking concepts (LAN / TCP.IP / load balancing / firewall management)
- Debugging (OpenSSL, Postman, network trace analysis, Kudu, Dev Tools)
Nice to have
- SDLC process and SDA tools used in AXA (Octopus)
- AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification
- AZ-104 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure certification
- Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Dataverse and its architecture
Full description
Azure DevOps Engineer
CONTEXT
AXA Belgium is looking to strengthen its Relationship and Contact Management team with a DevOps engineer. The digital world is a booming market and AXA is eager to continuously improve its "customer facing" front-end and mobile applications services through robust and cost-efficient platforms, standardized and automated for fast business enablement.
Within specific domains of the company, the Relationship and Contact Management team provides daily services on distributed infrastructure solutions within the context of the supported technologies (Azure,.Net, MSSQL, IIS, MS Dynamics 365...), under the governance of ITIL methodology and an AGILE Way of Working.
Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dataverse, and automating their lifecycle through Azure DevOps, is an important asset, especially for managing environments, deployments, integrations, security, and monitoring.
With skills to build a strong helicopter view of any situation, our new DevOps Engineer applies these solutions in line with the AXA strategy, the local standard architecture, the operational guidelines of operations support and SLA’s (productivity, quality,...) agreed with the business.
DESCRIPTION
In the role of Senior DevOps engineer, your contribution consists of the following activities:
- You work principally as an Ops Engineer, with Automation Scripting Development responsibilities
- You work closely with various stakeholders (Developers, Testers, cross-department SPOCs, Offshore teams, etc...)
- You are responsible of the Application’s Life Cycle Management, problem management, and release management, in line with AXA security guidelines.
- You play the role of FinOps, capable to evaluate the cost of an implementation before pushing the button.
- You support your team and discuss directly with the different stakeholder.
- You manage incidents - Understand end to end flow - Analyse a stacktrace.
- You manage the Business-As-Usual operations within your area of expertise.
- You implement Infra-As-Code end to end.
QUALIFICATIONS
- You possess a Bachelor in IT.
- You have a minimum of 5 years of experience with similar responsibilities and technical environments.
- You are solution minded, with strong logic skills allowing you to assess a resolution path to any queries.
- You are a fast learner, can act as a leader, and are capable to work autonomously with an "outside of the box" mindset.
- You have a good knowledge of English.