Role: Azure DevOps Engineer
Location: Dallas, TX (Remote)
Type: Contract
Summary:
- The Infrastructure and Operations organization is requesting approval to engage one to two senior Azure DevOps Engineers for a 6 9 month engagement to accelerate the remediation and modernization of critical Azure infrastructure components.
- The remediation effort includes security, resiliency, disaster recovery, governance, and operational excellence initiatives across Azure platform services. Current project demand exceeds available engineering capacity and requires resources with deep Azure expertise who can execute complex infrastructure modifications while maintaining operational stability.
- Because the resources will work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Development, and Operations teams, the engineers must be US-based (on-shore) and available during standard business hours for planning, implementation, production change windows, troubleshooting, and incident response activities.
- The primary objective is to accelerate Azure remediation activities and reduce organizational risk associated with:
- Platform resiliency gaps
- Disaster recovery readiness
- Security vulnerabilities
- Configuration drift
- Cloud governance deficiencies
- Well-Architected Framework and remediation findings
- Operational supportability concerns
- The resources will assist with technical design, implementation, validation, operational documentation, and knowledge transfer to internal staff.
Scope of Work
- Azure Networking and Availability Zone Architecture
Key Activities
- Reconfigure Azure Load Balancers to support Availability Zones
- Evaluate application dependencies and routing requirements
- Design and implement zone-redundant architectures
- Validate failover capabilities
- Assist with production deployment planning
- Review infrastructure for alignment with Azure Well-Architected Framework recommendations
Desired Expertise
- Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, Azure Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints, Network Security Groups, DNS architecture, Availability Zones, Regional resiliency design.
Azure API Management Disaster Recovery
- Key Activities
- Deploy and configure Azure API Management instances
- Design and implement disaster recovery architecture
- Configure multi-region deployments
- Implement failover and recovery procedures
- Validate connectivity and performance
- Create operational runbooks and support documentation
Desired Expertise
- Azure API Management, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Front Door, Multi-region architecture, Disaster recovery planning, High availability design, API security best practices, Azure networking integration.
Azure Storage Account Security and Remediation
- Key Activities
- Review existing storage account configurations
- Eliminate public access where appropriate
- Implement private endpoints
- Configure network restrictions
- Enable diagnostic logging and monitoring
- Implement encryption and key management controls
- Standardize configurations across environments
Desired Expertise
- Azure Storage, Blob Storage, Azure Files, Data Lake Storage Gen2, RBAC, Storage firewalls, Private Link, Managed Identities, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor.
Azure Service Bus Security and Hardening
- Review existing Service Bus implementations
- Implement secure authentication methods
- Remove unnecessary access permissions
- Configure private networking
- Enable monitoring and alerting
- Implement governance standards
Desired Expertise
- Azure Service Bus, Managed Identities, RBAC, Private Endpoints, Azure Monitor, Event-driven architecture, Application integration patterns.
Azure Key Vault Security Improvements
- Assess existing Key Vault configurations
- Remediate security findings
- Implement Private Endpoints
- Review RBAC and access policies
- Enable monitoring and auditing
- Standardize secret management practices
- Support integration with application teams
Desired Expertise
- Azure Key Vault, Secrets management, Certificate management, Managed Identities, Azure RBAC, Azure Policy, CyberArk integration experience (preferred), Audit and compliance requirements.
Required Technical Qualifications
- Azure Platform Expertise
- Minimum 5 years of Azure administration and engineering experience
- Minimum 3 years of Azure DevOps experience
- Proven experience supporting enterprise-scale Azure environments
- Experience with production and regulated workloads
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Bicep
- ARM Templates
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Azure Security
- Azure Policy
- RBAC
- Managed Identities
- Private Endpoints
- Network isolation
- Key management
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud recommendations
- Monitoring and Operations
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- Application Insights
- Automation Runbooks
- Operational dashboards
- Alerting and incident response
- Disaster Recovery
- Multi-region Azure architectures
- Failover testing
- Recovery planning
- High availability design
- Business continuity planning
- Preferred Qualifications
- Azure Solutions Architect certification
- Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification
- Terraform certification
- Experience in healthcare or regulated industries
- Experience with HIPAA, SOC, or comparable compliance frameworks
- Experience remediating Azure Well-Architected Review findings
- Experience modernizing legacy Azure deployments
- Expected Deliverables
- Technical Deliverables
- Remediated Azure resources
- Infrastructure-as-Code templates
- Configuration standards
- Security hardening documentation
- Disaster recovery runbooks
- Operational support documentation
- Monitoring and alerting configurations
- Knowledge Transfer Deliverables
- Architecture documentation
- Support guides
- Operational procedures
- Engineering walkthrough sessions
- Transition documentation for internal teams
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