Associate Manager, DevOps Engineering

Avanade is looking for an Associate Manager, DevOps Engineer to establish and facilitate CI/CD best practices, cloud/container-based orchestration and establish automated testing strategies. This role focuses on the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling and continuous delivery cycle, helping teams and organizations provide agility and business-value.

Responsibilities:

• Assemble completed system components from internal and external development teams and coordinate testing, quality assurance and customer support to ensure smooth, stable and timely delivery of product updates
• Maintain control over test and production systems and source code
• Make system builds for each platform, including automated installation scripts and procedures using utility software
• Document and formalize the release engineering (RE) procedures so that the process can continually be reviewed and improved

Requirements:

• 3+ years of prior related work experience, preferably in a technology or consulting environment
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Strong understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC), quality assurance, and project management principles
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft DevOps tools, including Azure DevOps, Azure App Insights, and Git
• Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Chef, or Puppet
• Familiarity with DevOps frameworks and architectures (e.g., ADOP, AMEP)
• Hands-on experience with scripting tools such as PowerShell and Grunt
• Working knowledge of containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services
• Up-to-date knowledge of Microsoft products and ecosystem