Azure cloud engineer

Job Description:

· Provision, Configure and troubleshoot components of cloud related to compute, network, storage, and security.

· Strong experience in implementing and managing Azure core services like VNet, Storage, Virtual machine, Azure SQL, IAM, Traffic manager, Autoscaling, Azure Monitor, VPN/Express Route.

· Analyze network logs and create/manage traffic rules for the network security groups and ACLs.

· Monitor and manage network connectivity, routing and fix any connectivity issues.

· Provision of appropriate compute instance type and storage disk type for the workloads requested.

· Build Images suitable for customer infra and provision VMs based on the design standards.

· Manage lifecycle of all resources, perform on-demand requests includes deletion/resize of VMs, volumes management, snapshot lifecycle management, IP address/DNS management.

· Create and manage Azure Storage, objects ACLs, versioning, and lifecycle management.

· Manage user access using IAM, policies management and any other identity access integrated solutions.

· Provision of resources using Resource Templets or terraform templates.

· Monitoring using Azure Monitor and fixing the alerts generated.

· Provide recommendations to customers based on performance, security, cost and capacity management.

· Analyze security logs from diagnostic tools and provide root cause with permanent fix.

· Demonstrate complete technical ownership of the cloud solutions being managed.

· Work on multiple projects and operational activities both as a lead and team member

· Maintain and troubleshoot services on Azure and provide proper resolutions for the incidents.

· Involve in migrations and ensure that workloads are migrated without any issues.

· Implement best practices by closely analyzing cloud services and recommend best possible solutions.

· Solve complex business issues with established guidelines and recommend appropriate alternatives.

· Participate in technical major incident resolutions, preparation, and review of RCA documents.

· Perform new migrations, consolidation, provisioning, and decommissioning projects by coordinating with different teams.

· Ensure required documents are in place and review documentation periodically.

· Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate cloud solution issues in cooperation with 3rd party vendors.

· Implement IaaS and PaaS solutions on Azure based on design guidelines.

· Ensure necessary backups and health checks are performed for all services.

· Perform deployment automation and configuration management; Create and implement scripting/automation of repeatable functions and tasks.

· Recommend new solutions to the service delivery team for customer communication.

· Participate in solution designs that are highly available, secure, and align with standard architectural and disaster recovery standards.

· Provide guidance to customers related to operational, implementation, and tooling aspects of public cloud.

· Participate in capacity reviews (server, storage, etc.) and assist with requests to remediate capacity concerns.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Should have 6+ years of experience in IT infra and 3+ years in public cloud like Azure.

· Provision Configure & Troubleshoot compute, network, storage, and security related components.

· Maintain and Troubleshoot HA and DR implementations on Azure.

· Ability to select Azure features and design a production platform for new applications.

· Performed deployed automation, orchestration and configuration management using necessary tools.

· Strong understanding of PaaS platform and microservice architecture

· An ability to undertake root cause analysis and provide permanent fixing for all business-critical issues.

· Should have been involved in migration of business-critical workloads related to servers and database.

· Can demonstrate an understanding of SLA governing System Availability and Performance.