[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @Aprimo

Role Description

As a DevOps Engineer in Aprimo R&D (Research & Development), you will help us to expand our growing R&D DevOps team. Our .NET/C# multi-tenant SaaS software platform is fully hosted in the Microsoft Azure public cloud. AI tooling is a first-class part of how our team operates. We expect engineers to actively use AI assistants for coding, root-cause analysis, documentation, and automation.

What You Will Be Responsible For:

• AI-Augmented Operations: Leverage AI assistants to perform the majority of the duties listed in this section. Comfort and fluency with AI tooling is essential to success in this role.
• Incident Response and Troubleshooting: Respond to alerts, investigate issues, and identify root causes to ensure the stability and reliability of the SaaS environment.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including configuration, automation, and monitoring, to facilitate fast and reliable software releases.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Utilize Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes to containerize applications and scale them efficiently.
• Cloud Management: Manage cloud resources on the Azure platform optimizing cost, security, and performance.
• Monitoring and Logging: Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to ensure the availability, performance, and security of systems and applications.
• Security and Compliance: Collaborate with the security team to implement best practices for security, compliance, and vulnerability management.
• Scripting and Automation: Write scripts and automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve efficiency.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development to understand underlying requirements and implement infrastructure to support it.
• Documentation: Create and maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for infrastructure and processes.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years of major cloud service provider operations experience is required (Azure ideally preferred).
• Experience maintaining, scaling, and operating a consumer multi-tenant SaaS offering, including handling alerts, troubleshooting issues, and identifying root causes during investigations.
• Proven experience with containers and container orchestration systems is required, such as: Docker; Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm.
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience using AI tools in a DevOps or engineering context.
• Experience designing, improving, and operating CI/CD release pipelines is required.
• Templating and Configuration Languages such as: Azure Resource Manager (ARM/Bicep); Terraform; JSON, YAML.
• Scripting languages: PowerShell.

Requirements

• Azure cloud provider experience.
• Windows server administration.
• Azure DevOps and GitHub: Work Items, YAML Pipelines, Release Management, Wiki, Source Control, and Git.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering concepts and how to craft effective prompts for DevOps tasks.
• Networking Fundamentals such as: Network Subnetting; Firewall rules; DNS and Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing.
• Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience maintaining, scaling, operating Elasticsearch.
• Azure SQL knowledge.
• Experience with NGINX.

Certifications Preferred

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
• Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900).

Benefits

• Target Compensation: Monthly base salary target of 110,000 PHP to 138,461 PHP depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and level of experience.
• Competitive commissions structure.
• Competitive benefits coverage that begins on the first day of employment, including:
• Generous Leave options: Annual, Sick, & Special Leaves such as Marriage, Paternity, Maternity, and Bereavement.
• Medical and Dental Insurance; Eye Refraction; Outpatient medicine coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Rice Allowance.
• Life and Accident Insurance.