Networking Cloud Engineering

Position: Networking Cloud Engineering

Location: Libertyville, IL (Onsite)

Duration: Contract to Hire

Cloud Engineering / Networking Responsibilities:

• Develop, Design and implement- Azure Cloud Services: Azure Virtual Machines, App Services, AKS, Functions, Storage, Monitor
• Develop, Design and implement VNETs, Subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, SDWAN and network solutions
• Automation & DevOps -Design and implement support for ARM Templates, Terraform, PowerShell, CI/CD Pipelines
• Performance & Cost Optimization Autoscaling, Load Balancing, Reserved Instances
• Design for scalability, reliability, availability, and security of systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and maintain resilient systems.
• Investigate and evaluate market and technology trends
• Foster a collaborative troubleshooting environment.

Project Management:

• Lead infrastructure projects (e.g., Cloud integrations, system deployments, network upgrades).
• Define project scope, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Monitor progress and address any issues.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement and adhere to and enforce security policies and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., ISO, NIST).
• Remediate vulnerabilities and provide systems built with security by design.
• Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
• Support Identity & Access Management Standards, Azure AD, RBAC

Vendor Management:

• Evaluate technology vendors and ensure services and service levels are defined and considered.
• Maintain vendor relationships and monitor service levels.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity:
• Plan and test disaster recovery procedures.
• Minimize downtime during critical incidents.
• Azure Site Recovery, Backup, Geo Redundancy

System / Networking Assessment Responsibilities:

• Review and assess the enterprise network landscape including LAN, WAN, Fiber and Voice for Hollister's Tennessee locations.
• Evaluate on-prem and cloud network security posture.
• Assess server and compute platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Review storage, backup, restore and disaster recovery solutions.
• Document consolidated findings, and recommendations for the above.
• Create Network Assessment Report Architecture and configuration details of network Devices
• Create Server Assessment Report - Capacity, performance, availability details of On-prem and cloud servers
• Create Security Assessment Report - Identified risks and vulnerabilities on network, server, access control & firewall.