Barnksforte Group Limited is seeking Senior Azure DevOps Manager
You must be passionate about delivering performant code and following coding best practice standards. You should be excited by the prospect of architecting challenging new projects, whilst fine tuning and maintaining existing projects.
Azure, Microservices/SOA,Net, Enterprise Integration. Barnksforte Group is currently hiring Intermediate to Senior .Net Developers that are passionate about software development to assist our clients with turning their ideas into working software fast.
Responsibilities
- Translate business needs to technical specifications.
- Design, build and deploy applications
- Conduct unit testing and troubleshooting
- Evaluate and improve Development governance & standards incl. Code reviews.
- Collaborate with teams to integrate systems.
- Manage Azure DevOps projects (branching strategies and policies)
- Mentor junior and intermediate developers
- Create CI/CD pipelines for Azure and on-prem environments
- Assist with bringing Azure resources up to par with industry standards.
Knowledge And Skills
- 7 years+ experience with Application Development
- DevOps practices & Micro Services
- Software development practices
- Expertise in Azure Function Apps, Azure PaaS and Azure DevOps
- Strong understanding of RESTful API development
- Experience with webforms, MVC/MVVM, TypeScript, NUnit, Visual Studio, SQL, HTML, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Git, and Postman
- Experience with Angular 4+ is a plus
MINIMUM EDUCATION
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Preferred: Azure Certified (AZ-900, AZ-204)
- GitHub Copilot certification (Advantageous)
- 6+ years' experience in Microsoft .Net, .Net Core, C#
- Excellent experience using JavaScript / Web API / Razor / JSON
- Good Frontend skills and working with HTML5 / CSS3 / SCSS
- Good knowledge of JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, Typescript)
- Good database and server-side application skills with Azure, SQL / NoSQL (Cosmos)
- Cloud Hosting platform experience - Azure App Services and Application development and Azure DevOps experience is very advantageous
- Experience in developing/maintaining Content Management Systems - Umbraco, Optimizely CMS
- Excellent understanding of stored procedures and database design/normalization
- Excellent understanding of source control best practice and branching strategies
- Event driven architectures and approaches
- Excellent understanding of SOLID principles and best practices to follow within development
- Knowledge of software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
- Gather customer software requirements and develop related software applications and programs (to spec)
- Good application performance optimization strategies and techniques
- Good knowledge of object orientated concepts
- Experience in system integration techniques
- Experience interfacing with clients, understanding client business strategies and how to deliver these within applications you architect
- Communicating at a management level. Speaking with authority and lucidity to clients and team members
- Experience working with Agile / SCRUM methodologies
- Experience using project management tools like Jira
- Happy to mentor and grow self-motivated less experienced team members
- Team player and not afraid of a bit of hard-work and fun with colleague
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate Certification Required.
- You should have at least4 years of professional development experience.
- Proficiency in programming with Azure SDKs, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, AND OTHER TOOLS
- You utilize resources like Microsoft Docs, the Developers Guide to Azure, and the Azure Architecture Center
- AZ-204 exam passed
For those having retired certs - MTA, MCSA, MCSE and MCSD Certifications retirement - please apply after completing the Recommended Path to Microsoft Role-based Certification Options
Suitably qualified candidates can submit their CVs to : careers@barnksfortegroup.com with the job title and location as the subject.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: ₦500,000.00 - ₦800,000.00 per month
Application Deadline: 09/07/2025