Azure Engineer

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. No sponsorship.

Local candidates only to go onsite 3 days, 2 days remote each week.

Responsibilities

Under direct supervision of Information Technology leadership, the Azure Engineer - AVD Specialist will be responsible for:

Design, implement and maintain (break/fix) all network platform technologies including Cisco-based LAN, WAN, Wireless, VOIP and Security (50%)

Establish and maintain the physical and logical architecture of all network components

Perform switching/routing, load balancing and firewall administration

Diagnose and resolve complex configuration and troubleshooting issues within a multi-vendor, multi-site infrastructure

Ensure network fail-over capabilities between critical operational components and data centers

Leadership Responsibilities (20%)

Manage and provide technical guidance or training to mid-level and junior staff of the network group.

Handle escalations, resolve issues for mid-level and junior staff.

Define standards and best practices for network solutions and maintaining the network including creating and documenting process/procedure related to network design, monitoring, security and disaster recovery (20%)

Ensure all network topology, technology solutions, team and individual work flow is documented and updated regularly

Establish and maintain technical standards and configurations

Document and perform change requests/management as necessary

Establish, monitor, evaluate, and report key performance and key risk indicators (KPIs and KRIs) to provide leadership with visibility into the effectiveness of the Network Infrastructure (10%)

Monitors network operations to identify performance and capacity issues

Measures volume and performance of network traffic

Identifies utilization and performance issues;

Develops plans and implements new technologies and services to satisfy capacity and performance requirements

Experience:

Strong experience in Network Design or Network Engineering.

MUST have a strong Azure Networking fundamentals/services i.e Azure routing such as WAFs, NAT GWs, firewalls as Azure services.

Strong experience configuring Cisco IOS

5 or more years of experience with Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols

2 or more years of experience with Azure Networking