DevOps Engineer Azure (Bucharest) Offline

Project Description:

In this role, you'll be joining our Azure Engineering team within Cloud Productivity & Engineering (CPE) as an Azure DevOps Engineer, reporting directly to the Director for Azure Engineering.

This team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our Azure cloud platform to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products. In collaboration with Microsoft, we aim to transform how LSEG leverages the cloud platform:

- Engage in designing, developing, and building complex cloud services and capabilities.

- Work alongside architects, developers, and other engineers to ensure efficient Azure Product engineering.

- Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance

Responsibilities:

- Understands the vision and strategy and articulates it to the community of practice leads and teams; the “why,” the business case, context, benefits any constraints etc.

- Defines key features and platform enhancements needed to keep pace with business demand and own the product backlog.

- Lead key strategic projects/initiatives to meet strategic outcomes and enable operational excellence. 

- Ensure feedback and learnings are obtained and utilised as early and often as possible. 

- Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions, focusing on but not limited to compute, network, storage, monitoring, security, and automation.

- Collaborate with Lead Platform Engineering Managers, architects, and other stakeholders in the implementation and future development of Azure Landing Zone platform.

- Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.

Mandatory Skills Description:

- 3 plus years’ experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud and hybrid Azure Platform solutions.

- Can demonstrate deep knowledge in setting up Microsoft Cloud Products and hands on experience with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework.

- Prior experience in roles such as Azure engineering, development, or Azure-focused DevSecOps.

- Familiarity with Azure cloud native components and products.

- 3 years’ demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines.

- Proficiency in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices.

- Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Gitlab.

- Excellent planning and communications skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams.

- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree.

- Knowledge of following technology stack: Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Azure Service Fabric, Microsoft Azure Networking, Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform, HashiCorp Terraform

Nice-to-Have Skills:

- Certificates like: AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-400

- Proven track record working in agile environments

- 3 years’ hands on experience with Azure products and services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS).

- Proactive incident management with Azure-based troubleshooting.

- Sound understanding of financial markets.