Cloud Automation Engineer

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Position Overview 

Align seeks a candidate with a passion for technology and 2 to 5 years of Infrastructure / Cloud Monitoring and Operations experience. Ideal candidates will have prior Managed Services (MSP) experience. The Azure Cloud Monitoring Engineer will work as part of our Managed Services Team providing best of breed Managed Cloud solutions to our clients in the Alternative Investment Industry. This person is responsible for delivering and supporting large-scale network, system, application, service, and business activity monitoring solutions.  

• The Cloud Monitoring Engineer will be a hybrid role based out of our New York office. This person should expect to work primarily remotely but will come to the office or at client sites as needed. 
• This is a full-time position offering full benefits, a salary in the $80K to $85K range, paid training, and performance-based bonuses

Responsibilities 

• Monitoring and responding to alerts for Align and managed service customer equipment.
• Support application monitoring for Azure and other cloud application architectures
• Monitor infrastructure component for CPU, memory, disk space, and I/O
• Implement application monitoring, synthetic and real user monitoring solutions following best practices across the enterprise
• Leverage RMM tools to troubleshoot network and systems issues impacting Align clients.
• Applying industry best-practice security standards to deploy process improvements via scripting on Azure cloud platform
• Familiarity with PowerShell and python scripting use in Azure platform and Microsoft online API’s
• Maintain scripts, templates, and documentation as it pertains to infrastructure automation.
• Improving efficiencies by engineering advances of Align toolset (including but not limited to: LogicMonitor, ConnectWise, IT Glue, O365, Active Directory)
• Developing processes to give instruction for responding to automated tasks
• Handling ticket queue and ensuring accuracy of results
• Participates in the discussion of applications performance and infrastructure outage incidents to provide solutions
• Serve as escalation point for NOC Analysts, and work with Cloud Operations Manager to monitor quality  
• Collaborate with all relevant IT resources to develop preventive measures and automated remediation of production issues
• Develop processes to monitor and alert for critical business transactions and applications to catch an issue before the impact  
• Document information such as configuration, installation and user guides following process standards 

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of experience in Information Systems performing network, systems, application and infrastructure monitoring, analysis and operations
• Working knowledge of critical infrastructure monitoring best practices and infrastructure monitoring tools: client, server, network, logs
• Ideal candidates will be familiar with the Align toolset (including but not limited to: Windows, LogicMonitor, ConnectWise, IT Glue, O365, Active Directory)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

Qualifications

• Understanding of core development principles of scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, and Java
• Azure Certifications are preferred
• Experience in configuration management and orchestration tools 
• Experience in configuration, release, and change management 
• Team player with strong collaboration skills and a flexible approach to problem solving 
• Self-driven i