Senior Azure DevOps Engineer Job at IQVIA

IQVIA is the leading human data science company focused on helping healthcare clients find unparalleled insights and better solutions for patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness the power of healthcare data, domain expertise, transformative technology, and advanced analytics to drive healthcare forward.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Job ID: R1488097
Job Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Summary

• An Azure DevOps Engineer is responsible for managing and automating the infrastructure and deployment processes on Microsoft Azure.
• This role involves working closely with development, operations, and security teams to ensure efficient and secure deployment of applications and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipeline automation around GitLab. Maintain and update GitLab runner infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Terraform and Packer.
• Implement and manage containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployment, and performance.
• Monitor and optimize the performance, scalability, and security of Azure environments.
• Collaborate with development and ops teams to ensure streamlined building and deployment of applications.
• Ensure compliance with security best practices and policies.
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure and deployment automation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Previous experience working in a regulated environment (Healthcare, Life Sciences) preferred

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong experience with Azure services (VMs, AKS, Blob Storage, AppService plans, private endpoints, AGIC, APIM, Databricks, Service Bus).
• Experience developing code in Python.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, GitLab specifically.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Terraform).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Understanding of release engineering best practices and patterns. Particularly trunk-based development.
• Experience with repository design best practices for enabling automation.
• Understanding of networking concepts and security best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to communicate in English (both spoken and written) required.