Azure Cloud/Devops Engineer

Job Description ::

Azure Cloud (Multi-cloud is a plus (gives them more perspective) SME (Subject Matter Expert) and provide cloud operational support across all aspects of our application environments. Any experience with Architecture will be a big feather in their cap

Advanced Terraform creation (ability to write them on their own)

Advanced Azure and Azure Networking (know how to use Azure Well Architected documentation and create infrastructure that adheres to best practices, advanced pipeline creation skills (all pipelines for this role are created in YAML, Azure Kuberenetes Cluster Management skills, prior skills in building and managing azure networks (any prior design experience here too would be helpful)
Job Description

Azure Cloud Engineer

The primary focus of this role is to function as an Azure cloud SME (Subject Matter Expert) and provide cloud operational support across all aspects of our application environments including but not limited to compute health and monitoring, automated build and deploy, data backup and retention. A lot of the work is geared toward implementation for Azure Enablement. Other team members handling high level designs and this role geared toward the implementation side.

The right candidate will posses over 5 years Azure Cloud and general cloud experience, with specific expertise around Azure Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Services (AKS), Azure Key Vault, Entra Active Directory, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Azure Backup, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Recovery Vault

Your Day-to-Day Essential Duties

Knowledge and experience working with blob storage, Mongo DB, MS SQL database architectures

Experience with Cloud automation, Terraform and other tools to implement, maintain and improve CI/CD processes and tools.

Experience with API based applications and containerization including Kubernetes experience

Ability to implement, support and execute within disaster recovery scenarios involving our cloud hosted applications

Ensure all execution of work, including measures to build, enhance stabilize, automate and harden fall within current security and compliance standards

Understanding of appropriate role-based hierarchy and access management guidelines across the Azure solution and environments

Part of a team that troubleshoots applications, middleware, infrastructure, networks, tools, patching

Maintains/updates on ongoing operations and project tasks.

Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and suggest improvements to the architecture.

Assists in defining the appropriate operational planning.

Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development.

Collaborates on architectural design reviews and changes.

Own, define and improve metrics, KPIs, SLOs and visualizations for systems.

Act as an escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Drive quality accountability within the organization with well-defined processes, metrics, and goals for process quality. This includes leading effective postmortems and ensuring actions are followed-up.

Building, and maintaining, robust, actionable alerting and monitoring systems and workflows. Influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization.

Work closely with development teams to improve services, deployments and releases.

Troubleshoot production issues and continued documentation of runbooks.

What You Bring to the Team

Possess a very high attention to detail and organization with the passion and ability to create order out of disorder with excellence and efficiency.

A desire to automate everything. Whether that be infrastructure as code or tooling to eliminate toil, automation should be a core focus of your mindset and the elimination of repetitive tasks should be a constant desire in the role.

Natural curiosity. You aren't simply satisfied with something working, you want to know why it works and how it works.

A mindset of total ownership - you aren't afraid to dig into things you've never worked on before, from the browser all the way to the persistence layer. You've got a solid foundation in debugging and can jump in when needed to any problem you're asked to help with.

An architectural mind. You understand the fundamentals of distributed computing and look for ways to make systems more resilient, self-healing, and eliminate the need for human intervention as much as possible.

Very strong communication and interpersonal skills allowing the candidate to work well in a team environment and deliver excellent customer service.

The ability to convey the importance of site reliability in both business and technical terms to a wide variety of audiences that range from non-technical to the most technical of engineers. Drive stakeholder buy-in of key metrics such as SLAs/SLOs for all supported systems.

Ability to maintain SLAs through the implementation of proactive issue detection and reporting

Experience developing scripts or tools for automating administrative tasks.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure/AWS

Mongo DB

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