Azure Stack DevOps Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions provides strategic advice to clients on issues at the cusp of business and technology. We provide and enhance a value proposition by helping clients tackle business problems. Seasoned consultants work closely with clients’ onsite to structure their problem, gather data and design solutions and implement those. The duration of a typical client engagement varies from few weeks to years. We work across all industries. Specialists from all industries collaborate with our engagement teams to provide deeper insights into the industry.

Typical client problems addressed by Cognizant include

• Sourcing strategy
• IT strategy/organization design
• Governance Strategy
• Business Strategy
• Application / Technology Rationalization
• Business Process Re-engineering / Outsourcing and
• Organizational Change Management
• Digital Enablement

Project

This requirement is for a Cognizant’s global chemical client headquarter in Germany. Their IT division is going digitally enabled. This project is about delivering DevOps and Cloud services for overall IT landscape. The current set up within organization is mainly characterized by a separation between Application Development and Infrastructure Provisioning on one hand and Application Deployment on the other. The former is happening outside the team, for the latter our goal is to create a centralized service all of departments within organization. Primary focus areas are Agile, DevOps and Application- Infrastructure Monitoring.

Key Responsibilities of the job

As a DevOps Engineer (10+ years of experience), you will be in responsible of delivering expert DevOps solutions for wider Volvo Cars project teams in areas such as Agile planning, source code management, build-deployment, testing, and application monitoring. The DevOps engineer role is responsible for managing azure stack of technologies for overall operations include Azure DevOps, GitHub, Atlassian Suite, SonarQube, Backstage, Performance center, UFT and Monitoring tools like Apica and AppDynamics. You have knowledge of some or all the tools like GIT, ServiceNow, Jenkins, Containerization, Container orchestration, Argo CD, AWS/Azure environment and OpenShift container platform. You also carry working knowledge of software development using MS Technologies and scripting using bash, PowerShell.

Skills & Experience

• Should possess excellent expertise in Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jira & Confluence for Agile and SCM requirements.
• Should possess excellent expertise in various build & deployment solutions using Azure pipelines and GitHub actions in various platforms.
• Should have hands on experience in SonarQube, Performance center, UFT for various test requirements.
• Should have hands on experience in Apica & AppDynamics to troubleshoot and identify the application/infrastructure monitoring issues.
• Analyze new features in sprint user stories and determine potential impact to performance
• Determine performance testing strategy based on performance requirements from product & development
• Working knowledge in Azure, AWS environment, GIT, JIRA, Jenkins, ServiceNow
• Working knowledge of UNIX, LINUX, Jenkins.
• Experience with Integration API testing via Rest and Soap services with JSON and XML
• Knowledge of DevOps automation using any of the script-based language like python, Shell, Perl etc.
• Monitor overall operational landscape availability in order to ensure adherence to agreed service levels (the scope is also inclusive of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and weekly reports of activities and operational status)
• Liaise and coordinate with ITS Project Leads and Developers to effect proper monitoring protocols
• Report on performance and end-user issues
• Create and maintain appropriate documentation and charts describing hardware setups, diagrams, allocations, overall inventory, etc. (this includes suggestions for the update and improvement to existing SOPs)
• Participate in information security audits and implement corrective and preventive action plans approved by business units
• Attend relevant training programs & update team on trends in technology – emerging technologies, service models, industry trends etc.
• Understating of AWS, Azure environment to support monitoring platform
• Knowledgeable in Agile/Scrum SDLC methodology
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Must be able to adapt to changing requirements and priorities
• Ability to work independently, self-motivated and a strong team player
• Understanding of SaaS delivery model
• Self-motivated, excellent communication and interpersonal client facing skills.
• Qualification & Professional Certification:
• Fluent in Swedish and English language
• Bachelor in Computers / IT
• Agile / SAFe Certification - Optional
• Certification in any of the above tools preferably Azure stack & GitHub.

Marketing statement

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is the fastest-growing global IT services and business process outsourcing solutions provider, headquartered in Teaneck, N.J. Cognizant’s single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation know-how, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. Today with over 50 delivery centers worldwide and over 200,000 employees as of December 31, 2019, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 1000, and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.