Azure DevOps Engineer

Company Description

We Cook iT is an international software house that delivers software development to its corporate customers by providing highly skilled, communicative IT professionals to build their customized products through outsourcing, nearshoring and turn-key projects’ solutions.

How do we differentiate ourselves? By investing in the professional growth and personal care of our software developers. We provide them with a premium service so that they can do the same for our customers.

Our talented team holds software engineers and sales experts, spread across offices in Europe and South America, and we represent a go-getting and driven company who aims to be an inspiring software house, knowing our future relies on IT.

We Cook iT stand for growth, support, dynamic, companionship and communication. Our head office is located in Portugal in the heart of Lisbon (Avenida da Liberdade) and we work mainly for the European market.

Job Description

For one of our clients we are looking for a DevOps Specialist (Azure/Kubernetes/Airflow).

Job details:

• 3+ months project duration
• Full-time involvment
• full remote from anywhere in Europe

Project description: The goal of the project is to migrate batched scheduled tasks from the old Secure Runtime Environment (SRE) to the new Future Modelling Platform (FMP / Azure / K8S). A set of models is part of the end-of-day process. These are hosted in the Secure Runtime Environment (SRE) and subject to a schedule organizing the execution run-time. The SRE models are reinforced by a toolset enabling modern software development via continuous integration (CI). The code is versioned using Subversion (SVN), managed, and built on a TeamCity server. By the Future Modeling Platform (FMP), a new runtime environment was established being a natural citizen of the cloud resp. Azure. This platform hosted on a Kubernetes cluster is technology-independent through Docker containers and naturally reinforced by DevOps including GIT repositories.

Tasks:

• Gaining an understanding of the model and where it is hosted in SRE, TeamCity, and SVN by interviewing the current solution owner in the Quant Method (QM)
• Initiation of the creation of a new corresponding DevOps project and FMP model
• Request and configure an Azure KeyVault
• Transfer the code from SVN to GIT repo in the corresponding DevOps project, and adjust the repo setup accordingly
• Transfer of the build, test, and deployment pipelines from TeamCity to DevOps
• Presentation of the results, and achievements so far to client for a sign-off before further use
• From the code base removal of the SRE interface and establish an application runner; this includes an analysis of the IO and programming in Java and Scala based on own professional expertise
• Refactor/code the configuration to be picked up from environment variables resp. from Azure key vault
• Modification of the deployment pipelines by targeting Docker and deploy to client’s Docker registry
• Establish in Airflow a DirectedAcylicGraph (DAG) file for FMP model configuration in the UserAcceptanceTest (UAT) environment
• Testing of the full solution stack based on own professional experience and expertise, in particular, the two use cases:
  • A machine calls the models
  • A human calls the models
• Presentation of the results achieved so far to client for a sign-off before further use
• Promotion of the solution to the production environment (PRD)
• Request to decommission the model running in SRE, toggle TeamCity pipelines to inactive
• Tracking of the daily production to monitor a smooth passage and that PRD stability is kept based on own professional experience and expertise

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, and Airflow.
• Strong background in DevOps practices and tools, including GIT and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker.
• Proficiency in programming with Java and Scala.
• Familiarity with both SVN and TeamCity, with a demonstrated ability to transition to modern CI/CD tools.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills to effectively interact with team members and present to stakeholders.

Additional Information

If you are looking for a fast-paced multinational company and have a desire to be part of the exciting state-of-the-art projects across Europe, send us your application in English.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!