Senior Azure Cloud Ops Engineer

<p><span><span>SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span><span>In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li><span><span><u>This is a hybrid role, requiring the successful candidate to attend our Tralee office.</u></span></span></li> <li><span><span><u>12 </u><u>month fixed term contract.</u></span></span></li> </ul> <h2>Role Description</h2> <p><span><span>The Cloud Operations Engineer (Contractor) is responsible for the support of complex Cloud solutions across Azure/AWS/GCP. Typical day-to-day workload would focus on the support and creation of Cloud resources, capacity management, service right sizing, financial governance such as reservations, monitoring, and request fulfillment. An ideal candidate will have background experience related to Cloud engineering or support, with experience in creating and updating infrastructure as code templates.</span></span></p> <h2>Role Objectives</h2> <p><span><span>This role is responsible for the operational support of Cloud platforms notably Azure across all SMBCGroup Company entities in the Americas and EMEA Division This role requires experience of Microsoft Azure operations engineering. </span></span></p> <ul> <li><span><span>Finding and improving operational efficiencies to best suit Cloud resource delivery access management and security implementations</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Support of production workloads within a multiCloud environment including but not limited to monitoring patching backup and restoration of Cloud resources</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Delivery of Cloud infrastructure for partner solutions</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Creation and support of automation and infrastructure as code solutions for resource creation and policy leveraging PowerShellAzure DevOps Ansible and other approved corporate automation and orchestration platforms</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Sound familiarity and experience in debugging of databricks notebooks general compute sql warehouses and troubleshooting datafactory pipeline workflow</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Prior experience working with version control tools such as Github  Azure DevOps including repository management pipeline as code and sdlc workflows</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Basic understanding debugging experience when it comes to application infrastructure databases networking  and dns</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Familiarity with data analytics tools such as databricks and datafactory</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Experience with deployment data analytics infrastructure to basic onboarding debugging pipelines and core features such unity catolog linked services notebook management</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Work with internal teams and vendors on the integration of a diverse set of systems into the central ITSMITOM platform ServiceNow</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Assist with migrations to cloud ensuring best practices are followed and architecture is compliant with company standards</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Participate in the implementation of monitoring systems for event monitoring alerting and metrics</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Discover opportunities and help facilitate a mechanism to change evolve improve and simplify the infrastructure and supporting processes procedures</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Directly interface with support teams across all disciplines to facilitate a closer relationship for collaborative implementations and knowledge sharing</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Ensure handover of new updated systems documentation to team providing 24x7x365 support</span></span></li> </ul> <h2>Qualifications and Skills</h2> <p><span><span>Proficiency