Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer

Title: Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ / Alpharetta, GA (5 Days Onsite)

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