Azure Cloud Engineer - AKS

Hybrid in Northbrook, IL, US • Posted 4 hours ago • Updated 4 hours ago
Contract Corp To Corp
Contract Independent
Contract W2
6 Months
No Travel Required
Hybrid
$65 - $70/hr
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins

Summary

Job Description

The Azure Cloud Engineer will work closely with all areas of IT to assist in the architecture, design and build of the cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure. The engineer needs to have the aptitude to lead the requirements gathering, analysis, design, and implementation of solutions in public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). You will be working in a collaborative team environment to help implement our cloud and container strategies.

Daily Tasks & Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with teams within IT to implement cloud and/or hybrid systems that support the business goals
  • Participate in architecture and design session related to cloud strategy
  • Create and update technical documentation
  • Expertise aligning business objectives with technical solutions for stakeholder requests
  • Assist the PMO in driving the successful completion of IT Projects

Essential Skills, Characteristics, & Experience

  • Work closely with Client Cloud team to implement and manage secure, scalable, repeatable, and reliable cloud infrastructure environments
  • Advanced troubleshooting skills to drive to root cause
  • The ability to see the “big picture” and scope requirements to the organization’s direction
  • Motivated with a strong desire to deliver exceptional results in an quickly growing company
  • 3+ years of technical experience in design, system installations, administration, and/or support of business systems
  • 3+ years production level experience implementing and supporting Azure Kubernetes environment 
  • Experience building and supporting mission-critical infrastructure for critical applications.
  • Deep working knowledge of container based infrastructure running on Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Strong working knowledge of CI/CD tools and concepts - Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, Artifactory, Azure Container Registry, YAML files
  • Working knowledge of provisioning and managing Azure Infrastructure using automation and infrastructure as code
    • Experience with Hashicorp Terraform is a plus
  • Working knowledge of knowledge of configuration management tools and concepts – DSC, Salt
  • Experience with Azure networking and security
    • Azure networking
      • Hybrid Connectivity, utilizing VPN and ExpressRoute
      • Implementation of VNET/Subnet/Peering
    • Azure security
      • NSG/UDR/ASG/Firewall services
      • Experience with 3rd party security vendors a plus
  • Experience with log collection tools and analysis, as well as infrastructure performance monitoring tools and optimization practices
  • Active Directory and Group Policy management and design experience a plus
  • Experience with Windows and Linux Server Systems
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking and routing
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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  • Dice Id: 91128085
  • Position Id: 2301-7515-1794412179
  • Posted 4 hours ago
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