Senior DevOps Engineer

Sr. DevOps Engineer – 6+ years Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Professional training or certification in Linux, Windows Server, Azure, Ansible, DevOps, database administration, or related technologies is advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience delivering application migrations or deployments in controlled enterprise environments. Required Experience
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, systems engineering, application operations, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
• 2+ years of practical experience developing and supporting Ansible automation for application and server configuration.
• Experience administering both Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Experience integrating applications with Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.
• Experience supporting production or business-critical migrations, including cutover, rollback, and stabilization.
• Experience coordinating with infrastructure, security, database, development, QA, and application-support stakeholders. Required Technical Skill Set Automation - Ansible roles and playbooks, inventories, variables, Jinja2 templates, handlers, vault or secrets integration, idempotency, error handling, Git Web Hosting - IIS, Apache HTTP Server, Nginx, reverse proxy configuration, TLS/SSL bindings, application pools Databases - Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, connectivity, authentication, schema deployment, backup and restore coordination, basic performance troubleshooting Operating Systems - Windows Server and enterprise Linux; services, processes, permissions, packages, logs, storage, and scheduled jobs Scripting & Source Control - PowerShell, Bash/Shell, Git, YAML, JSON, and configuration templating CI/CD Azure DevOps or an equivalent pipeline platform; artifact handling, approvals, configuration, deployment validation, and rollback Networking & Security - DNS, firewalls, ports, proxies, load balancers, certificates, service accounts, secrets, least privilege, and server hardening Operations - Monitoring, log analysis, incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, release support, runbooks, and knowledge transfer