Senior Azure Operation Engineer
Senior Azure Operation Engineer
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Job Description
IQVIA is looking for a Sr Cloud Operations Engineer to be part of our Cloud Operations team. You will help to develop build and support critical development and production environments for IQVIA in both the AWS and Azure public cloud environments. This is a technical position that requires experience of operations and support across multiple disciplines in the public cloud including servers database network and containers. You will work with other engineers and architects in the Cloud Operations team to provide both deployment and support services for our internal business units.
Responsibilities:
Administration and creation of AWS accounts & Azure subscriptions including management of hub & spoke environment.
Create and manage Service Control Policies and Azure Policies
Administration of users groups roles and security within AWS/Azure IAM
Administration and reporting within Cloudhealth as well as assisting users with features.
Create and maintain IaC terraform templates and Gitlab pipelines to automate services and eliminate repetitive manual tasks using APIs.
Perform daily operations duties such as planning and implementing changes checking automation job status responding to alerts and events.
Continual review and of cost optimization opportunities and regular cost reporting and management.
Manage keys security configurations agents backup/recovery patching storage accounts/S3.
Create manage and monitor alerts as well as continually reviewing and enhancing monitoring process and tools in CloudWatch Splunk Azure Monitor Datadog.
Create document and automate operations processes.
Assist and provide input during client application installs and POC and act as Cloud SME on project teams.
Create and maintain VPC subnets route tables VPNs and security groups transit gateways. When required troubleshoot network issues including routing DNS and other.
Manage instance build process and AMI/AIB images for both Windows and Linux platforms.
Serve as escalation resource for compute OS level issues.
Monitor and address incidents requests changes and problems.
Requirements and Key Skills:
5 years of senior level system administration experience with Windows and Linux operating systems administration networking concepts and protocols and basic scripting skills
3 years of experience administering public cloud and hybrid workloads.
AWS or Azure Administrator Certification
Understanding of public cloud PaaS services including AWS ECS AKS Databricks or other.
Scripting and automation experience: Powershell CLI interfaces Cloud Native APIs REST APIs
Understanding of DevOps tools and continuous pipeline (CI/CD). Gitlab ADO experience is a plus.
Understanding of configuration management/IaC platforms like CloudFormation Terraform Puppet Ansible).
Experience deploying and supporting medium to large IaaS PaaS environments.
Understanding of cloud emerging technologies and cloud security.
Knowledge/experience with monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch Splunk CloudHealth Datadog Azure Monitor
Experience with Cloud Identity Providers (e.g. Azure Entra AD) Highly desirable
ITIL Foundation Certification or higher
Technical expertise with security compliance (e.g. SOC PCI HiTrust) and privacy (e.g. HIPAA) a plus Experience working in a regulated environment.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
