Senior DevOps Engineer (AZURE)

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of IT services for all major public and private cloud technologies. We have evolved our services to cover the entire spectrum of the cloud journey, providing Fanatical Experience™ from initial consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.

With cloud-native approaches based on state-of-the-art DevOps practices, we work with cutting-edge technologies to help companies modernize applications and data, integrate robust security solutions, and deploy everything for maximum effectiveness in the right cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in Azure to support Rackspace customers in their cloud transformation. Ideally, you have experience in a consulting role and leading other engineers in delivering automated, secure, and robust cloud infrastructure solutions.

The unique #Racker culture welcomes all passionate technicians, and at Rackspace, you will find that technical career paths are truly valued and celebrated. We like people who engage in technical discussions at all levels, from architecture to hands-on programming. We are looking for a strong technical expert with experience leading first-class engineering teams on complex projects from inception to delivery.

You will be part of a friendly, highly collaborative team in Germany with immediate access to the latest certifications and first-class training programs!

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Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable software services together with engineering and architecture teams.
• Execute cloud engineering tasks within sprint cycles, aligned with best practices and templates within a customer project team.
• Create cloud solutions for new customers using cloud-native components.
• Utilize foundational architectures and components to build automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting service frameworks.
• Present architectures to customers of varying levels, from developers to business analysts to senior personnel.
• Advise executives and end-users with varying degrees of familiarity with cloud technologies on technology selection, best practices, and benefits.

Requirements

• You are a strong technical expert with experience in complex projects from conception to delivery, to provide automated, secure, and robust cloud infrastructure solutions. With your comprehensive technical expertise, you support customers in optimizing their workloads by providing application-oriented support for building, deploying, integrating, scaling, and repairing using native Azure and third-party toolchains, as well as automation-oriented agile principles.
• Through hands-on and consulting approaches, you are responsible for assisting customers with tasks such as resource deployment and modification of cloud environments, performing upgrades, and resolving everyday customer issues. You enjoy participating in technical discussions at all levels, from architecture to hands-on programming.
• Good knowledge of infrastructure technology is a great advantage, as is a programming background. By leveraging personal expertise and working closely with colleagues, the position will be responsible for providing technical consulting services in a customer-facing role, often on-site at the customer's premises. You will be the voice of Rackspace to the customer.

Experience

• Proven experience in designing and supporting Azure, including IaaS and PaaS in an enterprise setup.
• Experience in building cloud automation, including CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker.
• Scripting and automation methods such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, Go.
• Technical knowledge in as many of these as possible: Public Cloud architecture (Azure), PaaS (Containers, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, FaaS, etc.)
• Knowledge of common security practices (e.g., using IAM roles, KMS, etc.)
• Previous experience developing large-scale systems.
• Possesses in-depth knowledge of cloud technologies and can articulate best-practice approaches and practices.
• Strong communication skills, customer contact experience desirable.

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About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.