Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer

Zurich North America is currently hiring a Sr. Cloud Engineer to work for its team out of our North American Headquarters in Schaumburg, IL; where the Engineer will be responsible for delivering enterprise-level IT support with a focus on technical set-up, support and maintenance of public and private cloud-based IT services into the organization. Core responsibilities for this role include leveraging engineering tools and processes for effective provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, maintenance and support of Zurich’s public cloud infrastructure. The successful Engineer will possess very strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to work independently to research and resolve issues.

 

Essential duties will include:

 

• Engineering, automating, and orchestrating system provisioning and maintenance processes using modern cloud tools and technologies
• Designing and building technical solutions on Cloud ensuring scalability, high availability and fault tolerance etc.
• Planning, designing and developing cloud-based applications
• Understanding the needs for new initiatives to build scalable, distributed, and high-performance computing cloud-based platform solutions on Azure, AWS, and Google or other cloud platforms
• Collaborating with solutions architects and application SMEs
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with Zurich’s security guidelines
• Deploying and debugging Cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Performing system administration tasks including configuration, systems monitoring, troubleshooting, and support while innovating to automate as much as possible
• Installing configuring, maintaining, and supporting applications and servers in public cloud environments
• Performing operating system and software application installation, patching, and upgrades
• Establishing best practices and continuously evaluating and implementing new tools and services that can enhance cloud capabilities
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues reported by monitoring systems and submitted through the ticketing system of fully documented issues, actions taken, and steps for resolution
• Performing other tasks as defined, planned, and approved by leadership

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

• Bachelors Degree and 7 or more years of experience in the Application Design and Development area
  OR
• High School Diploma or Equivalent and 9 or more years of experience in the Application Design and Development area
   

Preferred Qualifications:

 

• Experience with public and private Cloud technologies
• Experience in migrating in-house services to a public cloud provider
• Experience with virtual/cloud infrastructure
• Experience with software engineering, scripting, automation and orchestration tools (PowerShell, Ansible, GitHub, Terraform)
• Experience provisioning, configuring and maintaining cloud computing services such as Azure, AWS, and Google, or any public cloud service
• Hands-on experience in migrating applications from on-premises to public cloud environments
• Experience supporting Microsoft technology, including, but not limited to: Windows Server