Azure Cloud Engineer - W2 Contractor

Role Type:  W2 Contract   

Work Status: US Citizen Green Card holder 

Term:  6 months Nights and Weekend schedule

Start: Mid to End of June

Hourly Rate: $60 to $80/hour

Location: Remote 95% 100% U.S. travel requirement

What Youll Do 

As a nonexempt/hourly employee at Burwood we are looking for a Cloud Engineer with strong implementation experience primarily focused on Azure cloud services though not necessarily responsible for design. Ideal candidates will be broadly skilled and experienced systems engineers capable of working with various technologies while specializing in Azure. The role requires adaptability and proficiency in deploying and managing cloud solutions with an emphasis on handson implementation.

Cloud Skillset (Azure)

• Ability to translate business and technical requirements and integrate them into a holistic architecture design.
• Participate in the Discover/Design/Plan/Execute phases of multiple parallel Azure Migrate projects endtoend working with the team through all phases to migrate client resources from existing local or cloudhosted environments into the designated new Azure landing zones.
• Participating in discovery sessions with stakeholders to identify and plan for the migration of all onpremises server resources to the new Azure landing zones.
• Assisting with deployment configuration and management of Azure and tenantlevel resources.
  • Entra ID / Subscriptions
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Networks Subnets NSGs UserDefined Routes
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Backups and Monitoring
  • Azure PaaS NVAs: VPN Firewall VWANVHUB
  • Azure Log Analytics queries (KQL)
• Work with a team for the deployment of new subscriptions including all infrastructure following established designs for the generation of new landing zones as migrations require.
• Work with a team to deploy the Azure Migrate appliances to multiple endpoint platforms (Physical Virtual: HyperV vSphere Proxmox VirtualBox etc.) and to install the mobility agent on all source migration systems establish and monitor replication.
• Work with a team to execute (night and weekend) cutovers of the source systems to Azure using Azure Migrate troubleshooting and resolving any resulting errors and validating system health prior to handoff to other teams to continue migration procedures.
• Provide troubleshooting support for Azure Firewall ACL Networking Routing and Connectivity within Azure as well as Identity and Access issues in Entra ID.
• Read/understand and execute PowerShell Python Terraform ARM/Bicep. You will not need to be able to write script using these languages but any experience with authoring will be highly valued.
• Extensive demonstrable project delivery experience in customerfacing roles.

Qualifications :

Who You Are

The ideal candidate for this Cloud Engineer role will have practical experience in deploying configuring and managing resources in Azure environments along with skills in tracing and troubleshooting traffic through Azure networks and devices. You have a solid understanding of routing and switching. You have an extensive background in executing migrations from onpremises to Azure.

The TECH Stuff 

Network Skillset (Azure: Routing Firewall VPN)

• Deploy configure and manage Azure PaaS networking components
• Trace and Troubleshoot traffic through Azure networks and devices
• Understanding of Routing/Switching (CCNA or similar network experience is a big plus)
• Implement S2S VPN tunnels using Azure PaaS VPN
• DNS (Microsoft AD DNS Azure DNS External DNS)
• Familiarity with L2TP/PPTP and typical client VPN solutions (ZScaler familiarity is a big plus)

Server Skillset (Windows Server Hypervisors)

• Deploy configure and manage Windows Server IaaS VMs)

EUC Skillset (Azure Virtual Desktop Intune)

• Deploy configure and manage Azure Virtual Desktop
• Experience with Hybrid or Entra joined workstation environments
• Understanding of VDI concepts
  • Static vs. Dynamic Hosts
  • Roaming user profiles
  • Published Application vs. Published Desktop
• Familiarity with Windows 10/11 Client OS for supporting VDI infrastructure
• Conceptual familiarity with Intune or other MDM tools

Automation Skillset

• PowerShell and/or Python
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• Windows Active Directory
• Familiarity with both VMware and HyperV
  • Ability to deploy VMs / appliances
• Cloud migration experience
  • OnPremise Physical/Virtual to Azure

Additional Information :

The PERKS 

As a W2 Contractor who consistently works more than 32 hours weekly. Burwood offers the following benefits:  

• Health dental and vision insurance 

• 401(k) savings plan 

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion 
 
We are not intent on being the largest company; but rather the best. These are the words we live by. This means we welcomeall the besttalent regardless of gender race ethnicity sexual orientation disability religion and age. 

Being open to all cultural backgrounds life experiences thoughts and ideas not only strengthens company culture but also encourages differentinkind thinking and promotes economic success. 

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Contract