Title: Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ / Alpharetta, GA (5 Days Onsite)
Contract
Job Description:
Position Overview: As an Azure focused Cloud Systems Engineer, you will be a part of the Technical Services team that supports the Financial Risk & Management Systems (FRMS) business unit as they transition key applications to the cloud. You will be tasked with being the subject matter expert for our Azure environments.
Responsibilities
Act as a Subject Matter Expert in Azure for the Hosted Operations Team
Gather feedback from the department on areas of improvement and provide solutions utilizing Azure
Serve as a point of escalation for complex Azure cases
Participate in inter-departmental planning meetings on suggested solutions for existing issues as well as systemic and process improvements
Work with internal team on identifying pain points in Azure deployments and configuration and ways to alleviate them
Maintain and enhance current client environment configurations
Organize and execute training sessions for new workflows and procedure recommendations
Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers
Participate in an on-call rotation
Building and running applications in AKS
Successful candidates for this position should possess the following
Basic Qualifications:
4+ years of experience with Azure platform
3+ years of hands-on experience with Windows or Linux administration, Engineering, and Automation
Experience with CICD concepts and tools such as Harness Octopus Deploy.
Strong understanding of the OSI Model and how it relates to cloud computing
Expert level in managing the lifecycle of IaaS VMs - troubleshoot VM boot issues, Backup/Restore VM and Disks (Snapshot and Recovery Vault), Imaging, Resizing and Scaling VMs
Expert understanding and experience in Azure Monitor, this will include configuring and maintaining the following: diagnostic settings, Log Analytics, Application Insights and writing Log Analytics queries via Kusto Query Language
Expert Knowledge and practical experience using Azure data migration tools
Expert working with Azure App Service - diagnose and remediate resource contention issues and Identify failures in application logs
Expert level in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates
Expert Level in Terraform automation
Team player, strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills with customers, vendors and partners, and across all levels of the organization
Well organized, attentive to details and able to meet demanding deadlines
College degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Azure Policy and Security Center
Proficiency with AWS management (EC2, SNS/SQS, RDS) or willingness to learn
Experience with a distributed management system.
Scripting skills:
Bash/Python/PowerShell
Windows administration experience
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