Azure DevOps\systems engineer (offline)

Our client is a global provider of financial-markets data and infrastructure (more than 130 fintech data, analytics, trading, and risk assessment tools).
This account/program has multiple projects globally that unite hundreds of EPAM engineers.
Projects aim for a feature development, re-engineering and enhancing the existing core features for client’s risk intelligence applications, data-as-a-service (DaaS) applications and rich Java-based applications.

Team is fully managed by EPAM, reporting to customer on regular basis. Team consists of Scala developers, Automation QAs, BA and DevOps.

Responsibilities

· Planning and implementing new environments in cloud environments and datacenters.

· Provide solutions for infrastructures with complex needs such as: high availability, configuration deployments, monitoring, logging etc.

· Writing operations related automation scripts and configurations.

· Operation and maintenance of production environments

· Deployment of applications, patches and hot fixes.

· Perform deep drill down analysis of application, system and network issues and provide necessary solutions.

· Come up with new ideas, changes, improvements and simplify the infrastructures.

· Provide technical support for the company’s customers.

· Documenting related information.

· Provide clear, crisp communication to colleagues and customers.

Requirements
Experience as an infrastructure / production / DevOps engineer for at least 2 years.

· Must – strong hands on experience with Linux (at least 2 years).

· Proven experience with Azure Cloud

· Must – Experience programming in one or more of the following languages: Python, Perl, C or Java.

· Troubleshooting and analytical skills

· Experience with cloud environments - an advantage

· Good knowledge of networking and firewalls.

· Good understanding of the HTTP protocol (headers, methods).

· Experience configuring web servers.

· High level of English is a must