DEVOPS CONSULTANT SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS
Published: Oct 28, 2024 – The DevOps Consultant has experience designing and implementing Microsoft solutions on Azure, leveraging both IaaS and PaaS to create robust cloud environments. This role demands proficiency in using Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline automation, with hands-on skills in PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Terraform for infrastructure management and monitoring. Well-versed in Azure migrations, including workload assessments and the architecture of services to ensure compliance with security and performance requirements.
Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Standout DevOps Consultant Resume
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
- Cloud Computing
- Containerization
- Scripting Languages
- Configuration Management
- Infrastructure as Code
- Monitoring and Logging Tools
- Version Control Systems
- Network and Security Protocols
- Agile Methodologies
- Problem-Solving
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Creativity
- Attention to Detail
- Conflict Resolution
- Leadership
Summary of DevOps Consultant Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume
1. BS in Computer Engineering with 7 years of Experience
- Knowledge of Jenkins, GitHub, Kibana/Grafana, Firebase.
- Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as Code concepts and techniques
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, artifact registry, and cloud monitoring
- Good understanding of physical networks (Subnets, Netting, Routing, and DNS)
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Linux, and networking.
- Scripting experience on Shell/Python.
- Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, and AWS Fargate
- Good understanding of GitHub, Ansible, and Jenkins Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Experience with the core AWS services
- Previous exposure to large-scale systems design.
- Hands-on experience leading the design and deployment of technology infrastructure and associated security controls.
2. BS in Software Engineering with 3 years of Experience
- Experience as DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer
- Strong in Scripting (Perl, Bash, Power Shell, Python, etc.)
- Hands-on skills in Linux scripting
- Experience working in Kubernetes
- Expertise in CI/CD pipeline automation
- Experience in Microservices-based setups, not scared of using Postman or Swagger
- Experience Monitoring setup using Grafana, Graylog, and Elasticsearch
- Curious, versatile, dynamic, rigorous, able to self-direct when given autonomy and a team player
- Good analytical skills and data analysis capabilities.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
3. BS in Cybersecurity with 6 years of Experience
- Experience in on-premise and cloud-based virtualization technologies including Virtual Machines, Containers, and Container Orchestration.
- Experience in automating Cloud services including at least one of the following AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud, and/or Tencent Cloud.
- Experience in Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Artifactory, Sonar Cube, Ansible
- Experience in Jira and Confluence for project tracking
- Experience in Atlassian product setup and administration
- Strong communication skills and can explain technical concerns to technical and non-technical clients alike.
- Experience with Code quality and security tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fortify, Veracode
- Experience with any automation tooling (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, DSC)
- Proficient with modern engineering practices and enterprise-level delivery
- Fluent in both written and verbal English and Chinese.
4. BS in Information Technology with 10 years of Experience
- Experience in a production 24/7 high-availability multi-site Cloud environment, including application hosting, CDN Networks, security, and information protection.
- Experience leading overall infrastructure for a complex organization and network, including 24x7 monitoring of a media website's digital properties.
- Experience in hosting and managing video streaming applications, and React Node JS-based applications.
- Experience with regulatory compliance issues, as well as best practices in application and network security.
- Experience in hosting services on Amazon Cloud and Google Cloud.
- Experience in performing Vulnerability Assessments at the server application level
- Experience in managing Live Streaming on digital platforms.
- Experience managing SVN, Git code repository Code release management.
- Experience in automation of server DB scalability - including EC2, VPC, S3, SNS, IAM, CloudFront, RDS, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoding, Route53, Billing, ELB, and EBS.
- Excellent oral and written English communication skills
- Self-motivated, proactive and solution-oriented individual
- A desire to write tools and applications to automate work rather than do everything by hand
5. BS in Systems Engineering with 4 years of Experience
- Consulting and implementation experience in Microsoft solutions
- Hands-on experience in designing, building, and implementing Microsoft solutions based around Azure (IaaS and PaaS)
- Experience with implementing and supporting Azure Blueprints, Azure policies, and Azure Bicep
- Experience with Azure network topologies and technologies
- Experience with automation of Azure monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (Azure Monitor/Log Analytics)
- Experience with Azure HA/DR, scaling, and backup solutions (ASR, Azure Backup)
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipelines), including the automation of infrastructure builds, configuration, and release management (using either PowerShell, Azure CLI, Terraform, or other tools)
- Experience with Azure migrations, including initial workload assessments and associated architecture of Azure services to meet requirements
- Knowledge of infrastructure solutions, specifically about Microsoft Azure and Office 365, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, and cloud technologies
- Experience in the development of cloud-based applications
6. BS in Data Science with 9 years of Experience
- Experience with a focus on architecture and design of network or systems infrastructure, performance, and management
- Experience in customer-facing positions as a professional services consultant or engineer.
- Understanding of technologies such as firewalling, application availability and security, web gateways, authentication/authorization, encryption, VPN, and network architecture.
- Demonstrate an ability to articulate and transfer complex ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication.
- Demonstrate strong written communication, presentation writing, project scoping, and user documentation skills.
- Provide experience handling multiple concurrent network and security projects
- Strong understanding of Cloud native and container-based distributed systems like Kubernetes and/or Docker, Istio, or OpenShift
- Good understanding of Containerization concepts including Kubernetes Command Line Tool, Docker images, Deployment Plans, YAML file configurations
- Proficiency with F5 ADC and industry-standard security technologies and products including Firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS
- Working experience in provisioning and managing container clusters
- Knowledge of common networking concepts with a deep understanding of Ethernet, IP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP, and UDP.