Senior Devops Cloud Engineer (Azure)

NOTE: Sponsorship not available for this position. Top Stack has been retained by an enterprise organization based in Purchase, New York to assist them in hiring a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer (Azure) to join their team. This is a 100% remote, full-time, salaried position with a competitive base salary and a comprehensive benefits package. This is a 5 days/week in office position. NOTE: This is a player/coach role. Hands-on but leading a small team. Overview The ideal candidate is a hands-on, large-scale, senior leader of DevOps and Cloud Engineering by trade specializing in containerization, serverless architecture, cloud migration and the automation of CI/CD pipelines for deployment of software changes for the entire company. Tech Skills: Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git What you will do: Owns 100% of DevOps Engineering architecture and the blueprint for its continuous adaptation across the entire company. Provides technical oversight for all DevOps and Cloud Engineers implementing changes. Ensures DevOps and Cloud engineering team technical compliance with design patterns and overall software standards. Provides technical leadership and hands on development direction for a team of 3 engineers responsible building out new CI/CD on-premise and cloud pipelines for the organization. Evaluates and selects a suite of technologies to support on-premise and cloud CI/CD across all teams. Creates strategies for merge, branching, artifactory, code scanning, deployment, unit test automation, functional API and UI test automation, containerization and orchestration. Leads peer teams within the Application Development and Solutions Delivery department by creating detailed technical designs for DevOps and Cloud expansion. Devises and executes a roadmap including on-premise containerization and migration to a serverless cloud architecture for the purpose of lowering TCO and improving the rate at which software changes can be delivered to market. Works to modify and align the organizational design with the changing DevOps and Cloud technical landscape. Provides hands-on direction to team members individually managing product and sprint backlogs as needed to deliver DevOps and cloud roadmaps. Guides teams and individually performs hands-on discovery, design, scripting and development to deliver value through DevOps and Cloud engineering. Responsible for hiring, evaluating performance, coaching, cultivating training plans and assigning work to all direct and indirect reports to meet all new work demand. Responsible for estimating new work and supplying employee and external contractors to meet demand for DevOps and Cloud enhancements. Qualifications Extensive hands on experience with Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git M.S. Computer Science, less than a Master's degree may be acceptable if accompanied by other technical training, relevant certifications, or extensive experience in positions that demonstrate required abilities and performance. (Required) Typically requires at least 15 years as the technical lead of a similar size DevOps and Cloud engineering team. (Required) Typically requires 7 years as a technical lead for a team of DevOps and Cloud engineers utilizing Scrum and supporting tools (JIRA). (Required) Must have the ability to simplify large-scale data related needs to minimize total cost of ownership (ensuing overhead). Must have an agile mindset and insatiable passion for innovation, agile delivery methods and BI and Analytics engineering continuous improvement.