DevOps Azure Platform Engineer
Location
Nouvelle Aquitaine | France
Job description
Job purpose
Our department is committed to offering to our customer entities cloud-based solutions that run with the expected performance and robustness, while being efficient and cost-effective.
The AXA GO product ‘Risk Projection Engine - Sunrise" is an actuarial platform for dynamic financial analysis (DFA) based on models and using stochastic projections for predictions on Solvency 2, IFRS17, ALM and Internal Model Review and it"s widely used at AXA.
The Risk Projection Engine - Sunrise Product runs in Azure Cloud environment and it"s supported by a team of 6 specialists spread between France and Portugal GO offices. The purpose of this position is to lead the Azure Platform Engineers team and drive the cloud strategy for RPE Sunrise.
Your responsibilities include
- Lead the Azure Platform Engineer team using Agile practices to ensure communication, work distributions and knowledge sharing
- Support the definition and implementation of RPE-Sunrise Azure strategy deploying scalable, reliable, and highly available infrastructure solutions in Azure
- Monitor and optimize Azure performance and cost
- Work with the security team to ensure that Azure resources are configured securely and are compliant with applicable AXA security standards and regulations
- Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration processes to increase efficiency, consistency, and reliability
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Azure infrastructure, working with other IT teams as Network and Cloud Broker to resolve issues quickly
Experience and Technical skills
- Expertise in using Azure DevOps and related tools such as Visual Studio, Git, Jenkins, and Docker
- Knowledge of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) concepts and methodologies
- Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud computing platforms
- Experience on Azure managed services (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure Storage Account, ...)
- Experience on Azure network and security components (build and run): VNet, Network Security Group, Monitoring of resources and the best practices surrounding them
- Mastery of Azure resource monitoring tool (OMS)
- Experience on best practices in terms of architecture design (AD, Storage, Managed services, etc.)
- Experience on the Kubernetes Ecosystem (Node, Pod, Ingress, ConfigMap, FleexVolume, Services, NetworkPolicy, CertManager, ...)
- Experience on automation of deployment of architectures and configurations (PowerShell, Python, JSON, ARM, YAML, HELM, Terraform)
- Strong understanding of software development processes, including Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycles and Agile methodologies
- A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
Soft skills / transversal skills
- Problem solving mindset
- Stakeholder management
- Communication and collaboration skills, adaptive to different levels of the organization, from executive forums to technical teams
- Autonomy and self-drive, but also teamwork and leadership
- Analytical thinking, attention to detail, and problem-solving
- English proficiency
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