Senior Cloud Engineer

Overview

The Opportunity:

 

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will consult and contribute to business process improvements of IT policies, procedures, tools, security controls and infrastructure. You will also conduct research and Proof of Concept activities and provide recommendations for new technologies, techniques and tools to add value by increasing efficiency while improving service quality. The Azure Cloud Engineer will maintain the operational Azure cloud environment, perform infrastructure deployments and ensure the production environment is operating securely and efficiently using automation tools. You will work with Infrastructure Engineering to make sure all deployments follow standards, are compliant and secure. You will also be partnered with other cloud team members, application owners and business owners for faster delivery of resources. You will report to the Cloud Platform Team Lead.

 

The Day-to-Day:

• Design and manage scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks
• Deploy enterprise scaled cloud resources that can be used across technology organizations using code
• Be the contact to business application owners and build bridge between them and cloud team
• Follow security audit requirements and controls in every action
• Implement and suggest strategies in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, develop tooling and associated processes for applying automated, faster, efficient, and consistent error-free deployments
• Enhance existing deployment processes and Infrastructure as Code scripts to improve automation, efficiency, and consistency
• Participate in team activities such as peer code reviews, design collaboration efforts and rotating on-call process
• Use configuration management and automated deployment tools to provide cloud-based solutions and services ensuring best practices
• Work with solution architects, tech leads and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices
• Collaborate with other engineers, provide guidance and training
• Manage implementations and ongoing operation of cloud services following approved designs, adherence to patterns, security requirements and certify all logging and monitoring are active for security and compliance
• Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, limitations and recommend solutions, optimizations and remediation
• Maintain comprehensive and systematic configuration, lifecycle and security management of servers and services
• Provide international and 24/7 support via on-call duties and/or working a flexible off-hours schedule for planned and unplanned maintenance

Your Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience deploying resources and managing infrastructure through both manual and automated pipelines in an IT infrastructure and operational environment
• 5+ years of experience in the following:
  • Maintaining resources in cross platform environments.
  • Azure cloud infrastructure deployments using IaC, preferably Terraform
  • Building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services
  • Deploying resources using Terraform
• 4+ years of experience in the following:
  • GitHub and GitHub Actions
  • Building automated cloud infrastructure across multiple Production and Non-Production environments
  • Scripting and automating builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects
  • Azure CLI
• 3+ years of experience in the following:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • YAML/YML for GitHub actions
  • Troubleshooting in an Azure Cloud environment
  • Designing and managing cloud solutions
• Knowledge of Azure AI and exposure to Artificial Intelligence technologies, frameworks, or solutions
• Experience with Azure IaaS (Virtual Machines, Storage, Networking) and PaaS (App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory)
• Knowledge of identity management, security controls, compliance and encryption
• Knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Services and other containers
• Experience with Linux and Microsoft Windows server environments
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, or ServiceNow preferred
• Knowledge in Octopus Deploy or Ansible preferred
• Ability to help build and drive culture in Azure Cloud environments and DevOps
• Solid understanding of DNS, LAN, WAN, Firewalls, File systems, IAM, etc.
• Experience using PowerShell
• Solid understanding of Enterprise applications development.
• Good team player and the ability to present to leaders across technol