Beschreibung
We are looking for a “Cloud Automation SME Azure Expert (m/f/d)" for our customer in the energy sector with the following basic conditions:Start: asap
Duration: 10 months+
Location: remote preferably in Germany/ Romania or other EU locations.
Project description: Hosting and Cloud Technologies (HaCT) automation framework provides general design guidelines and describes different automation options, pros and cons of each option, and an overview of the popular automation tools. Following these guidelines, around 35 self-service items have been introduced in CloudServices portal (a.net application – developed in house) to enable end users to provision, configure & manage cloud resources on their own. This project focuses on enhancing Hosting and Cloud Technologies (HaCT) automation framework & expanding self-service offerings in order to help operations teams eliminate repetitive tasks and focus on high-value projects.
Task description - The scope of services includes the following tasks, which are independently performed by the external consultant:
- Create proposals for automation framework enhancements and present them. The Automation framework is documented in the Internal Wiki. Review the framework and Discuss them (via teams) and implement the automation framework accordingly based on best practices from comparable projects. Document the results for a final sign-off
- Review and analyze the requirements and design the solution accordingly. The requirements will be shared during the course of the project by relevant stakeholders within Hosting and Cloud Technologies (HaCT). Document the final requirements and the corresponding solution design for final sign-off
- Develop, test and implement new self-services items based on the requirements captured in the step above to reduce effort and increase speed of cloud resource deployments and configurations. Document the technical details of each self-service item for final sign-off Implement these self-service in the Cloud services portal (in-house developed .net application).
- Review the existing self-service items (around 35), propose changes to HaCT automation team lead as required, discuss them (via teams), implement and document them for final sign-off by The review and enhancement of the existing self-service items will be based on best practices from comparable projects.
- Migrate self-service items that are made available in the cloud service portal for the provisioning, configuring and management of cloud resources, to ServiceNow as request catalog items.
- Create build tasks and release pipeline in Azure DevOps for each self-service item based on requirements. Document the implementation details for final sign-off by
- Create required epics, features, product backlog items & tasks for each self-service item in Azure DevOps. Generate report to show the status of self-service items based on status of epics, features, product backlog in Azure DevOps. Self-service items are captured in Azure DevOps as features & epics.
The client provides all necessary information & access to the systems (Net core, Azure Automation, Terraform, ADO, ServiceNow) and requirements in advance:
1) KID –user account & password to connect to resources
2) r mail account (marked as “external”) – A new r email address to communicate with stakeholders
3) Hosting and Cloud Technologies (HaCT) Automation DL & SNow group – User account will be added to automation DL and ServiceNow automation resolver group
4) teams access – Access to all required Microsoft teams
5) r RDA VDI – VDI to connect to network
6) Azure Portal Access - Access to azure resources (automation accounts, hybrid worker etc) managed by Hosting and Cloud Technologies (HaCT) automation team
7) Azure devops access – Access to azure devops project, devops wiki (technical documentation)
8) Cloud services portal – Admin access to cloud services portal to manage app settings, configure self-service items etc
9) Access to on-premise wiki – wiki access to all required Hosting and Cloud Technologies (HaCT) documents
10) Access to ServiceNow – User account will be provided required role in ServiceNow environment
Responsibilities:
• Creation of a design document for the implementation reviewed and approved by Implement Process Integration between Tufin Kubernetes Network Security Module and Development Repository using Tufin REST APIs that meets the following requirements
• Namespace Owners must be able to switch on learning mode for a cluster for a configurable time (up to 60 minutes)
• Several Namespace Owners must be able to switch on Learning Mode in parallel
• Learning Mode is automatically switched off when no Namespace Owner has switched on Learning Mode
• When the configured Learning Mode interval for a namespace has ended a namespace specific network policy is generated and pushed to a predefined Git Repository
• A namespace owner can define a Git repository and branch to which generated network policies in yaml format can be pushed
• Access tokens to push network policies to the git branch must be stored securely
• Network policies that are already configured in the namespace should not be discovered again in the design document expect to find detailed description of the application architecture, the installations process, and operations manual. The document will be sent to company via mail and signed off or rejected until finished- Implementation of the design in a suitable programming language (preferably Java, to be determined in the design document). The consultant writes source code, test it and check it into a version control system (implementation and design are well-known and precise terms in conjunction with software development)
• Maintain source code in Version Control System (Azure DevOps) for the implementation on a continuous basis. Access to a suitable repository will be provided by Configuration of a CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps for automated build and deployment to a suitable runtime environment (defined in the design document)
• Knowledge transfer of the application architecture, the operations details of the software and the installation process and Handover to line organization. The knowledge transfer will be organized by company. The knowledge will be conducted as Microsoft Teams sessions. The handover consists of going through the existing documents, clarifying open questions. Afterwards the handover will be signed off by Project Closure documentation. The consultant prepares a checklist of all activities planned to include completion date, present it to the company and sign-off.
Requirements:
• Please submit profiles in English
• Only Cloud Automation SME Azure Expert Must have skills:
• Experience in Azure automation – Azure PowerShell, REST API, DSC, CSE & CLI
• Hands on experience on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Terraform & Ansible
• ability to modularize and reuse them as required -Basic understanding of Azure IaaS & Azure PaaS Solutions like ASE, Azure Web Apps, Azure functions, SQL PaaS, Azure Storage, APIM, azure cognitive services etc -Azure devops –
• source code control, build & release. Agile / Scrum – Sprint grooming, planning, retrospective -ServiceNow –
• ITIL process (incident, change, config) overview, knowledge on how to consume ServiceNow rest APIs -Team leadership skills –
• communication, organization, team work, customer orientation & ability to innovate -Problem solving & interpersonal skills
• Nice to have: Experience in creating reports & dashboards in PowerBi from various data sources (DB, REST APIs etc)
• Understanding of Microsoft .NET technologies (.NET core, MVC) -Basic networking concepts & working knowledge on MS Flows & PowerApps
If you are interested, please do not hesitate to send me your current CV to: