CR289 Azure Cloud Consultant
Job Location:
Job Location:
Pleasanton, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
11 days ago
Posted on:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Job Title: Azure Cloud Consultant -CR289
Location: Pleasanton -CA (Currently fully Remote)
Duration: Long Term
Project Background:
Our client has three interconnected major projects running in parallel (M365 migration Azure Migration Nutanix Migration). They are all interdependent with a critical immovable end date. We are looking for a Azure Cloud/Engineer to interface with the vendors and our client s SME s and groups involved. The need is to facilitate and coordinate work and keep the project on its timeline.
Must Haves:
1. Azure Core Infrastructure & Services
Compute and Storage Data Platforms Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
2. Network and Hybrid Connectivity
Azure virtual Network (vNets) subnet routings NSGs and Application Gateways
Hybrid cloud: Proficiency in designing secure on-prem to cloud connections using VPN Gateway Azure ExpressRoute and Azure Bastion.
3. Security Identity and Governance
Identify Management Compliance and Governance
4. Automation and DevOps
IaC using Terraform Ansible and GitHub.
5. Azure Virtual Desktop
Utilize Terraform to build out new AVD environment
Plan and implement migration from on-prem VDI to AVD
Technical Knowledge and Skills:
- Advanced knowledge of security principles and configurations for Azure Nutanix M365 and AVD
- Advanced knowledge of Virtualization platforms in particular VMware Nutanix and AVD
- Advanced knowledge of Cloud architecture in particular Azure and AWS
- Advanced knowledge of M365 architecture including Purview
- Advanced knowledge of M365 Purview
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Defender/Sentinel
- Solid knowledge of Azure networking design principles.
- At least 2 years technical implementation experience with storage technologies (SAN FCP/ISCSI and NAS)
- Thorough understanding of networking technologies including administration of enterprise routers switches firewalls and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
- Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole including but not limited to: ACLs Stateful firewalls VPNs (tunneling IPsec PPTP etc.)
Deliverables & Tasks:
- Migrate workloads to M365.
- Migrate remaining servers and applications from the VMWare environment to Microsoft Azure.
- Deploy Nutanix virtual environments to migrate Data Center systems not included in other projects to Nutanix environments.
- Replace remote office VMWare virtual environments with Nutanix systems.
- Review and develop architecture plans for Nutanix and Azure with vendor input.
- Review and develop plans for migration activities to Nutanix and Azure in conjunction with State Fund SMEs and vendor architects.
- Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.
- Provide technical guidance and resources to other IT teams as needed.
- Escalate critical issues that impact pre-production and production systems when necessary.
- Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventive measures.
- Coordinate administrative maintenance and support activities of infrastructure to support IT and business initiatives.
- Lead plan develop implement and participate in project design system administration maintenance and support essential to the mission of State Fund.
- Develop automation using tools such as Ansible and Python to streamline routine tasks.
- Ensure designs meet best practice security guidelines.
- Optimize systems for performance based on their use case.
- Optimize State Fund spending in Azure to prevent overspend.
- Assist State Fund management in proactively managing vendor resources.
- Lead design discussions research identify and provide recommendations on solutions and best practices to improve or resolve mission-critical systems and issues.
- Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.
- Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventative measures.
- Act as a lead role in projects assigned by management.
- Participate in problem management and root cause analysis and maintain 24x7 availability and monitoring of business system servers.
- Provide after-hours maintenance and support whenever required.
- Participate in the on-call rotation with other Server Operations staff.
