Beschreibung
We are looking for a “CloudWorks Consultant (m/f/d)” for our customer in the energy sector with following basic conditions:Start:
Duration: 6 months+
Location: remote (Team based in Düsseldorf)
Project description:
CloudWorks 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 inhouse) to enable end users to provision, configure & manage cloud resources on their own. This project focuses on enhancing CloudWorks automation framework & expand self-service offerings to help operations teams eliminate repetitive tasks and focus on high-value projects.
Background
There are a lot of manual assets within the cloud project. The aim is to automate as much as possible in the system (infrastructure automating, end-to-end process of service requests). There are 5 people in the team (agile, working in sprints) from external suppliers. This candidate's role will be the lead of this team. He will report monthly about the status quo of the project.
Skills:
knowledge concerning KPIs
language needed: English, bonus: German
skilled enough to backlog requests into framework of automation
an expert that can also look at enhancing the framework of automation
ability to automate the framework
Tasks:
• Create proposals for automation framework enhancements and present them.
• Discuss them (via teams) and implement the automation framework accordingly based on best practices from comparable projects of the consultant. Document the results for a final sign-off.
• Requirements will be shared during the project by relevant stakeholders within CloudWorks. Review analyzes the requirements and design the solution accordingly. Document the final requirements and the corresponding solution design for final sign-off.
• Develop, test, and implement new self-services items in order 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.
• Review the existing self-service items (around 35), propose changes as required, discuss them (via teams), implement and document them for final sign-off. The review and enhancement of the existing self-service items will be based on best practices from comparable projects of the consultant.
• Self-service items made available in cloud service portal to provision, configure and manage cloud resources need to be migrated to ServiceNow as request catalog items. The consultant will provide the relevant informations to migrate them to ServiceNow.
• For every self-service item, create build tasks and release pipeline in Azure DevOps as required. Document the implementation details for final sign-off.
• Self-service items are captured in Azure DevOps as features & epics. Implement the reporting to show the status of self-service items based on status of epics, features, product backlog in Azure DevOps.
Employer will provide all necessary information & access to the systems (Net core, Azure Automation, Terraform, ADO, ServiceNow)
Skills:
- Experience in Azure automation – Azure PowerShell, REST API, DSC, CSE & CLI
- Strong understanding of Microsoft .NET technologies (.NET core, MVC)
- Hands on experience on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Terraform / Ansible
- Working knowledge on Azure IaaS & Azure PaaS Solutions like ASE, Azure Web Apps, Azure functions, SQL PaaS, Azure Storage, APIM, azure cognitive services etc
- Experience in creating reports & dashboards in PowerBi from various data sources (DB, REST APIs, SP etc)
- Familiar with Azure DevOps & ServiceNow
- Working knowledge on MS Flows & PowerApps
Nice to have: Basic understanding of ITIL process & basic networking concepts
If you are interested, please do not hesitate to send me your application to
Do you have questions? You are welcome to contact me by calling:
Fikemi Adewuyi