Job Description :
Position:  Azure Cloud Infrastructure
Duration:  12 Months
100% Remote
 
This is a 100% remote role - prefer EST or CST time zone.
Phone and Skype

 
Job Description: 
  • The Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will design, implement, secure, and manage private and public cloud infrastructure. Collaborates with development leads and architects to ensure cloud-native workloads are deployed according to IT best practices for security, governance, identity and access management, and monitoring. Support software development and deployment effort.
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  • The Cloud Engineer will work alongside engineering teams, QA and DevOps in building and maintaining infrastructure and platform operations in Azure cloud. The main tasks will include infrastructure architecture, development and maintenance, requirements analysis (data stores, DevOps, cloud services), documenting processes, site reliability, deployments and deployment infrastructure.
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  • Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions Architecture, improvements and maintenance of Azure Kubernetes Services and other container architectures/microservices Architecture, improvements and maintenance of Azure DevOps CI/CD Services Performing requirements analysis for data storages, cloud services, data and domain modeling Documenting and communicating the final results and efforts to the team Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements Updating, implementing and maintaining procedures
  • Work with development teams to troubleshoot dev, test, and production challenges
  • Facilitate development teams' ability to operate in a fully "infrastructure as code” environment where all configurations are coded, versioned, and automated
  • Manage onboarding and enablement of product development teams that are new to cloud native deployments
  • Develop and maintain provisioning processes that enable product development teams to consume cloud native platforms efficiently
  • Retrofit existing manual cloud implementations with Terraform and provider specific automation
  • Design, build, and administer multi-region public cloud networks, firewalls, Internet perimeters, load balancers, and access controls
  • Make recommendations on inter-cloud and hybrid-cloud connectivity based on security, functional, performance, and cost requirements
  • Engineer and implement "direct connect” connectivity to key public cloud providers
  • We are looking for a problem solver, team player, driven for results, adaptable, self-mastery with EXCELLENT interpersonal and communication skills/personality
Required Skills
 
  • Cloud (Azure) Infrastructure Design/Development
  • Azure App Services, Azure Kubernetes Services, Functions, Container Services
  • Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Azure DevOps, Pipelines, Scripting (PowerShell, Shell scripting)
  • Cloud Data Stores
  • Azure SQL, Cosmos DB (NoSQL), Redis Cache, Transactional vs Analytical usage patterns
  • Data ETL processes and patterns
  • SQL, data access patterns, query tools
  • Terraform
  • Networking background, more Azure experience than AWS
  • Understanding PaaS, cloud engineer
  • Nice To Have
  • Any of the following background job experiences: Software Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps, DBA
  • Infrastructure as a Service tools like Terraform
  • Graph Databases
  • Python
  • Application Delivery concepts via cloud-native traditional infrastructure platforms and ability to apply them to solve problems and provide solutions
  • Experience with supporting hybrid cloud environments, deploying cloud direct connect communication links and minimizing egress costs
  • Experience deploying Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions (app services, logic apps, Data Factory, SQL Server, PowerBI) with Terraform and ARM templates
  • Key Words
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Cloud Engineer
  • Infrastructure
  • Hybrid - cloud
  • terraform
  • CCNA/CCNP; Azure, AWS, GCP
  • Bachelor's Degree Requirement: Yes
             

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