Job Description :
End Client: Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Vienna, VA (DC suburb)
Work Location: on-site
Duration: 6+ months
Interview Process: Phone with RAX – Phone/Zoom with Navy
Azure Cloud Engineer
This role is responsible for providing Cloud technical leadership to internal business lines and delivering cloud solutions in a fast-paced agile environment using the latest methodologies and infrastructure. Candidate will have a technical consultative role and must be able to collaborate and support multiple product teams in defining Cloud solutions, implementing services and identifying risks to successful implementations. Candidate will participate in scrum meetings and must be able to adapt to change, with a focus on value delivery with minimal day-to-day direction. Responsibilities will include implementing solutions for Azure Cloud, develop software for infrastructure automation and monitoring, ensuring success in building and migrating applications, software, and services on the Azure platform, troubleshooting production issues and performing on-call duties.
Required Skills and Experience:
Must have: 3+ years’ working experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS
Must have: Strong, clear and measured verbal communication skills
Strongly Desired: Experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
5+ years of software engineering and development, including requirement definition, software development, integration, installation, maintenance and testing with languages like C#, Java, JavaScript in Windows and Linux environments
Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux servers
Knowledge of TCP/IP networking, SMTP, HTTP, load-balancers, high availability architecture, zero downtime production deployments
Basic understanding of HTML and GUI web interfaces with AJAX and JavaScript
Experience with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
Desired:
Experience with Visual Studio team Services (VSTS), Service Now,
Experience using GitHub, Chef and/or Jenkins
Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365
Experience with DevOps and Agile practices, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines