Anders Højer

DevOps Engineer

PROFILE

I am structured and logical in my working approach, and am not afraid to take responsibility. In a team, I fit well into the the role of 'devil's advocate', as I am good at giving constructive criticism. I often bring a realistic and innovative perspective to the execution of work tasks. In addition, I am also a sympathetic person who thrives in a team, where everyone is allowed to contribute and feel comfortable. At the same time, I am a proactive person with a high level of ambition, and I am solution-oriented by nature. I am a quick learner and find motivation to develop myself so that I can achieve my goals.

I have experience as a full-stack developer using Angular (frontend) and C#/.NET (backend) tech stack. My primary experience, however, lies within the DevOps area, where I have worked with Infrastructure As Code (IAC) in the form of ARM/Bicep templates for Azure infrastructure and Azure DevOps (ADO) CI/CD YAML Pipelines. These responsibilities have given me a lot of experience with Powershell, which i frequently use when developing automation tasks.

WORK ASSIGNMENTS

Implementation of Azure App Configuration

Using 'Configurations explorer' to keep track of configuration values across applications

Using 'Feature manager' to apply feature flags in front- and backend applications

Using 'Pusher API' to provide realtime feature changes when certain flags are turned on/off

Generic ADO CI/CD yaml template for deployment of single-tenant Microservices in all environments

Multi-repo pipeline that uses IAC templates in one repo to publish code from another repo

IAC in the form of YAML templates, bicep and powershell scripts

Idempotent deployment which sets up app setting key vault references, DNS (TXT, CNAME and ALIAS records), Virtual Networks, Subnets and Private Endpoints, IP Restrictions for main and SCM side, Database, SSL Certificate Binding etc.

Associated PR environment deployment (i.a. used for testing)

Transitioning highly used legacy application from IaaS to PaaS

Implemented new custom chain validation for certificates

Modified Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to be able to function on Azure Cloud

Updated SMS service to use 'Azure Function App' and 'Azure Service Bus'

Associated Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) function to resend unsent messages

Associated CI/CD pipeline for deployment of function app and service bus queue for all environments

Associated DLQ alert function that warns about messages that have not been sent properly

Automation of release processes via pipeline orchestration

Including automatic creation of release branches (GIT), running specific CI/CD pipelines, updating version numbers, generating release documents for customers, announcing relevant release information to developers and customers on Microsoft Teams/Email

Cherry Pick (GIT) release to handle changes that should occur during a release

Extending existing pipelines

Set-up of 'deployment slots' for Azure App Services (blue/green deployment)

Setup and maintenance of hosted ADO agents used for build and release