Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure

 

Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success.

 

As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.  

 

Company : Black & Veatch Corporation  

Req Id : 107717 

Opportunity Type : Staff 

Relocation eligible : No 

Full time/Part time : Full-Time  

Project Only Hire : No 

Visa Sponsorship Available: No 

Why Black and Veatch

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. 
 

Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life. At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use. #LI-KG1

The Opportunity

As the Senior IT Cloud Engineer, you will have the opportunity to:

• Be responsible for Cloud lifecycle management planning, design, oversight, automation, and optimization
• Collaborate extensively with business and IT professionals, and with the Infrastructure, Applications, and Information Security teams, and with third-party vendors and contractors
• Focus heavily on the strategic and architectural design of cloud solutions with a focus and demonstrated experience in Azure, and with strength in writing Terraform for cloud automation
• Be a recognized communicator, subject matter expert, thought leader, champion for technology adoption and compliance, and a passionate empathizer for client needs

The Team

Black & Veatch’s Business Enablement consists of critical groups that help enable the organizations people, projects, and businesses to be as successful as possible. Functions in this group include Digital & Information Technology, Global Finance, Global Human Resources, Legal, Risk Management, and Government Affairs and Real Estate and Building Services.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains contact and builds relationships with the operating businesses, IT management, IT vendors and technical architects to ensure availability, security, and satisfaction. 
• Assists in identifying new and improved approaches, technologies, tools, templates, and business use cases. 
• Assesses cloud environments for areas like capacity, connectivity, performance, and resiliency. 
• Designs, codes, tests and implements Terraform cloud automations/deployments 
• Reviews/Approves/Represents Change Tickets in the Cloud Infrastructure Area 
• Leads Break-Fix situations with multiple team members including managed service provider partners 
• Maintains broad-based technical and solutions knowledge in key infrastructure optimization and solution areas including:  
• Multi-Cloud Expertise with an Azure focus and working understanding of AWS, GCP and OCI 
• Cloud Multi-tenant Administration 
• Azure Virtual Desktop  
• Cloud Data Protection/Backup technologies and methodologies including recovery processes 

Management Responsibilities 

• Experience leading 3rd party delivery teams in geographically diverse locations 

Preferred Qualifications

• BS and/or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience 
• 8+ years’ experience (unless otherwise noted) in the following areas: 
• Cloud Engineer – Azure required; AWS, GCP & OCI exposure. 
• Demonstrated experience with SSO and Identity Federation services (Entra, B2B/B2C) 
• ITIL environment of formal Change processes, Systems Development Lifecycle processes and of production of requirements documentation and evidence (ServiceNow experience a plus) 
• 2+ years of Scripting with Terraform 

Technical Skills 

• Cloud Engineer – Azure required; AWS, GCP & OCI preferred. 
• Monitoring Tools such as Azure Operations Managem