DevOps Architect

Do you think it’s important to do things you believe in? So do we.

Why Avanade

At Avanade, we believe the rich fabric of who we are has been borne out of people bringing out the best in each other. By being generous with their time, by sharing experiences and taking the time to understand what’s important, we all benefit from that moment of lift. Together we go beyond.

About the opportunity

• The role sits within our DevOps and Agile Coaching Talent Community.
• You will champion the establishment and continued use of DevOps best practices.
• With the agility and energy of a start-up, backed by the resources of Accenture and Microsoft you’ll collaborate with a team of people who thrive on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organizations around the globe. Ultimately, we’re not just making business better. We’re making life better for our client partners and their customers.

As a DevOps Architect, you are a leader who can articulate concepts and educate teams and clients to coach them on the journey through DevOps transformation.  You are an accomplished software or infrastructure engineer with a penchant for modern automated delivery of software and infrastructure.

What you will love doing

• You will tenaciously champion core DevOps behaviors like collaboration, communication, and ownership
• You will champion the establishment and continued use of DevOps best practices.
• You will develop and implement DevOps oriented security approaches (i.e., DevSecOps)
• You will design and implement effective change management & communications, and governance processes.
• You’ll enjoy conducting DevOps team calibrations and help teams develop practice improvement plans.
• Support release planning preparation and event facilitation
• You will build high performing teams across development, quality assurance, and infrastructure teams to build an effective continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline.
• You will share best practices for build and deployment across several technologies (Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise)

Who you will enjoy working with

As part of the DevOps team, you’ll love the collaborative, connected and innovative culture. Led by Daksha Sharma who has a visionary and supportive leadership style and is all about empowering others and fostering positive work environment. And in terms of the big picture, Avanade proudly celebrates the leadership of Global CEO, Pamela Maynard and Australia’s CEO Laura Malcolm who has brought our purpose of making a genuine human impact to the forefront of the work we do for our clients, their employees, and their customers.

What technical skills are we interested in you having? 

• You’re experienced in cloud services (Microsoft Azure preferred)
• You’ve experience with enterprise-level software delivery and release management practices.
• You’re an expert in configuring/administering CI/CD for Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise or similar.
• You understand blue/green, canary, and other modern delivery patterns and approaches.
• You’ve experience with micro-services or cloud-based architectures for enterprise solutions.
• You’ve experience with securing DevOps and applications (Azure Key Vault & Azure Active Directory preferred) 
• You’re able to perform Scripting in languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or JavaScript
• You’re proficient with git and enterprise branching strategies.

Other skills and experience

• Stakeholder Management Skills: Coordinate with project managers, business analysts, developers, operations teams to understand platform requirements and evangelize ways to drive quality and value to the client stakeholders.
• You can design and implement effective change management & communications, and governance processes. 
• You’re able to drive the team’s triaging capability by taking on challenging problems not understood by front-line support teams.
• You have a broad skillset including modern application architecture, cloud architecture and a blend of software and infrastructure experiences.
• You’re self-driven, deeply enthusiastic about technology and can get the job done correctly in high pressure and dynamic circumstances.
• You’re adaptable and can quickly learn technologies and business domains that live outside your core skill set. You will also be able to demonstrate and describe achievements that applied DevOps on previous projects.
• Must hold Australian Citizenship

We do not expect you tick every box. What is important is that you help us to understand what your core strengths are and, that you will be excited to learn and develop in areas if you need to.

What you can expect from us

• Take full advantage of 5 MyDays off a year to relax, rebalance and focus on your health and wellbeing or honour your personal cultural beliefs.
• Love a gadget? Of course, you do! Go spoil yourself on us. Gadget allowances start from $1,000 pa.
• Your wellbeing matters to us. That’s why you’ll receive $2,000 pa to help you, take care of you.
• Empower others and be empowered through our employee networks: Women employees, PRISM for LGBTI+ employees and Veterans employees.
• Help yourself to an extensive menu of Microsoft and technology certifications and enjoy up to 80 paid training hours per year.