Senior Azure CLOUD Infrastructure Architect or Engineer

  • Jersey City, NJ
  • Posted 40 days ago | Updated 18 days ago

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 24 Month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Azure
cloud
terraform
infrastructure
API
DNS
DMZ
IAM
Security
monitoring

Job Details

Seeking Senior Azure CLOUD Infrastructure Architect Engineer with 10-20+ years of working experience.

Must be excellent with Azure DataBricks, Python and PySpark and SparkSQL. 

Seeking senior candidates to work Hybrid model onsite in Jersey City, NJ. Please note only senior candidates with 10+ years of working experience are being considered. This is a CORP to CORP role and 3rd party consultants are considered.

Full infrastructure stack and lifecycle experience with enterprise DNS and load balancing, DMZ application behavior including firewall connectivity and external interfaces, Identity and Access management (IAM), domain controllers, security controls for the Public cloud, monitoring tools and agents, OS images and hardening, distributed and parallel file systems including disk encryption, and software installation, configuration and patching is highly desired. The ideal candidate would have a developer background and experience in automation and scripting with hands on experience with Azure Resource Manager, ARM Templates, Azure Policies, Python and Terraform"

Title: Consulting - Azure Cloud Infrastructure Architect Engineer with 10-20+ years of work experience.

Type: Consulting

Location: Jersey City, NJ or Lake Mary, FL or Pittsburgh, PA

The Clients Team:

"Technology Services Group (TSG) powers The Client by providing scale, capacity and capability to deliver the critical technology required to operate the global financial services markets.

TSG is defined by three core values:

  • Creative innovators, delivering excellence and simplicity
  • Always doing the right thing for the bank, colleagues and clients
  • Fostering a collaborative, diverse and inclusive environment, where we challenge each other to execute as one TSG team""

Application Infrastructure & Middleware (AIM)"

Organization Introduction

- Define enterprise technology architecture and engineering principles and best practices

- Develop next-generation engineering solutions focused on Resiliency and Innovation

- Engineer and integrate the critical systems and platforms used across the bank and with external Clients

Job Responsibilities:

"Application Infrastructure & Middleware (AIM) Public Cloud is a diverse platform team that knows how software is built, configured, and deployed. We write services, plugins, and agents. We configure, automate, and run many infrastructure and Docker clusters, centralized logging platform based on ELK, docker registries and Prometheus stack for monitoring). We understand middleware and infrastructure and provide the tools and services that allow developers to run their applications. Additionally, our on-boarding, engagement and support teams help developers understand and use the platform

As a Cloud Engineer you will join the public cloud and colocation hosting team as a Cloud Engineering Generalist. The engineer will be part of the team leading the design, engineering and development of the bank s global platform to cloud service providers.

The role requires deep expertise in the large scale enablement of public cloud environments in Azure for a highly regulated organization (bank, pharma, etc). Specific experience and expertise related to the governance of public cloud environments using Management Groups, Blueprints and Policies is required. Specific experience in configuring policies restricting the use of Azure public cloud service offerings to conform to regulations and firm policies is required.

The role requires expertise including hands-on experience with server infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing to architect and maintain high availability production systems in both a Private data center and Public/Private Cloud environments. Experience with secure, infrastructure deployment in the cloud using Agile and DevOps concepts is highly desired. Full infrastructure stack and lifecycle experience with enterprise DNS and load balancing, DMZ application behavior including firewall connectivity and external interfaces, Identity and Access management (IAM), domain controllers, security controls for the Public cloud, monitoring tools and agents, OS images and hardening, distributed and parallel file systems including disk encryption, and software installation, configuration and patching is highly desired. The ideal candidate would have a developer background and experience in automation and scripting with hands on experience with Azure Resource Manager, ARM Templates, Azure Policies, Python and Terraform"

Key Job Responsibilities:

" Designing scalable infrastructure platforms. You ll be a part of the designing of our next generation cloud platform to meet the growing needs of the business

  • Programming the data center. You ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining software the will be responsible for the dynamic management of our data centers
  • Supporting our internal customers. You ll be responsible for providing technical guidance and know how to our internal teams on how to best leverage the cloud services available to them
  • Triaging infrastructure issues. You ll be part of the level three triaging team that will provide support for cloud infrastructure issues that affect our fleet of robots. "

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

Dealbreakers:

" Hand-on experience with Azure and at least 1 additional cloud provider, AWS or Google Cloud Platform

  • At least one scripting language Perl, Python, Ruby
  • At least one programming language Java, Scala, C#, C++
  • Experience with definition of Cloud Management Platform Security Policies for Azure
  • Experience with Terraform
  • Understanding of Cloud applications architecture and micro services model development including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
  • Experienced with using Cloud Orchestration/Workflow Automation and building distributed scalable applications"

" Preferred Qualifications: (Most important to least)

  • Development of custom providers and modules for TerraForm
  • Experience with at least one relational database administration and SQL
  • Experience with at least one NoSQL database
  • Experience with deployment/configuration of encryption key management systems
  • Experience with integration of monitoring and alerting systems with cloud management platform activity and event logging systems
  • Experience with virtualization and working within a privately owned datacenter
  • Devops or continuous integration experience at scale
  • Experience with typical cloud platform APIs
  • Experience using Docker containers