Azure Cloud Engineer


Seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for the implementation, 24x7 operational support, automation, availability, and performance management of our client-s public cloud platforms. The candidate is responsible to work with multi-disciplined IT technical teams to collaborate and manage infrastructure, automation, and applications in the public cloud with a focus on (but not limited to) AWS and Azure. They need to contribute valuably to the evaluation of application and infrastructure cloud readiness, work on cloud migration plan to support on-premise moves to a cloud service as well as the long-term management of the infrastructure associated with these applications.

Candidate must have a strong and broad foundational IT skillset including supporting Azure Cloud services, Linux/Windows Operating Systems, server configurations (including networking, storage and security principals), Containerization environments (i.e. EKS).

Responsibilities include working with application, development, database, and security teams as well as with other IT teams to collaborate on implementing automation services across the infrastructure platforms. This is a highly technical cross-functional role that understands all components of IT infrastructure (network, compute, storage, security, etc.), and knows how to integrate and automate each of the components using scripting or automation tools like Azure DevOps and ServiceNow.

Required Skills


Required:
- Bachelors Degree Information Technology (or equivalent educational focus. 19 years total w/ no degree) is required.
- 15+ years of total IT experience
- 4+ years of Azure Cloud experience is required. Basic knowledge of AWS is also required.
- Must be expert with cloud services such as Entra ID and Landing Zone components is required
- Must have projects that implemented and supported Azure cloud native services
- PowerShell scripting or automation experience
- Must have Linux experience
- Must have cross platform enterprise experience across IT (Server, Network, Storage, Security).
- Must be a highly motivated individual with strong analytical, problem solving and multi-tasking skills complimenting a passion for learning/sharing information from and with peers.
- Must be able to work a 24x7 On-Call 1x every 10 weeks

Highly Preferred:
- Azure Architect Certification

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Location

Telecommute

Openings

1

Anticipated Start Date

Monday, November 4, 2024

Job Type

Contract

Anticipated Duration

12 month T2P

Date Posted

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

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