Azure Cloud Engineer

  • Washington, DC
  • Posted 10 days ago | Updated 3 hours ago

Overview

On Site
$65 - $80 per hour
Contract - W2

Skills

Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Details



Title: Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Hybrid, DC area
Responsibilities:



  • Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security.

  • Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure

  • Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.

  • Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions.

  • Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions.

  • Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.

  • Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss.

  • Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernized.

  • Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards.

  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations.


Required skills & experience:



  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent

  • experience).

  • 8+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization.

  • 8+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions

  • Experience in the design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, databases and application systems.

  • Experience working within an Agile framework.

  • Experience in IaC development with Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible

  • Experience scripting with Perl, Python and PowerShell

  • Proficient with GIT to perform source code management.

  • Experience with Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps

  • Experience with Jira and ServiceNow

  • Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security and CI/CD tooling

  • Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross functional partners

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a keen attention to detail

  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust






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