Azure Cloud Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Infrastructure Cloud Engineer is responsible for leading the creation of a cloud platform technology framework and providing technical expertise supporting IT initiatives in cloud computing and automation. Also responsible for ensuring that critical cloud applications are designed and optimized for reliability security high availability and disaster recovery. Performs various activities required to design implement maintain and continuously automate a large complex cloudbased computing environment. Provides technical guidance to team members and when called upon serves as a technical liaison between internal departments. These activities will drive the creation of new infrastructure and environments which will be critical for the growth and adoption of broad cloud/automation goals.

PRIMARY JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Functions as the subject matter expert in cloud technology framework within the infrastructure team.
• Identifies and provides solutions for building scalable reliable and secure cloud environments that support the enterprise needs.
• Responsible for operational monitoring of cloud infrastructure systems and business applications including trouble shooting the Azure infrastructure components for optimal availability performance scalability connectivity and services.
• Provide technical guidance to Application and Data teams to use cloud technologies and implement cloud infrastructure.
• Partners with the application teams to ensure compliance with High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts of operations.
• Implements middleware applicationspecific requirements as needed.
• Responsible for migration of webbased solutions to a public cloud (primarily Azure)
• Makes recommendations on effective platform provisioning and security as it relates to cloud services
• Participates in enterprise projects in the cloud; functioning as the lead resource covering technical and architectural assessments services analytics security testing and deployment
• Utilizing best practices for management security architecture configuration disaster recovery administration and automation of the enterprise environment with cloud technologies.
• Collaborate regularly with members of IT business units functional teams field personnel and internal and external audit functions.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Possess deep technical knowledge and extensive experience with complex IT environments including applications middleware storage networks information security and operations and a solid understanding of cloud services cloudnative architectures and application delivery models.
• Firm understanding of Zero Trust methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of Azure security compliance and governance
• Expert knowledge of Active Directory (Azure Active Directory AAD Entra ID)
• Expert understanding of how datadriven applications and dynamic and eventbased architectures work within the cloud services.
• Working knowledge of SQL database administration and optimization in Azure hosted environments.
• Expertise in building distributed scalable systems based on docker containers and orchestration through Kubernetes Docker Swarm etc
• Experience in CI/CD and applying the DevOps mindset and principles
• Excellent communication skills clear verbal and written communication to be able to address people at all levels of the organization including the executive level.
• Exhibits the ability to take a project and run it to completion with minimal supervision.
• Strong organizational skills manage multiple timelines and complete tasks quickly within the constraints of project timelines and budgets.
• Excellent problemsolving and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of and experience with managing Azure cost budget and forecasting of expenses.
• Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills technologies and frameworks.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in computer science information systems or equivalent.

• 10 years of infrastructure experience (including strong understanding of databases SaaS and DevOps) including indepth experience with planning strategy for building out and executing infrastructure integrations and migrations.
• 5 years of Azure infrastructure experience working with Azure virtual Machines PaaS access control (IAM) advanced knowledge of public cloud architecture and offerings (Azure) including serverless architecture enterprise service business scale on demand DBaaS IaaS.