Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

Washington DC(Hybrid)

Job Description

Client is looking for a Principal Azure Cloud Engineer to join our team. The Azure Cloud Engineer's primary responsibilities include responsibility for the architecture design/planning, management, support, and oversight of the Azure PaaS/IaaS environment. This position is able to be worked remotely for candidates outside of the DC Metro area.

Job Duties

• To conceptualize, design and architect the Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS)/Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) environment
• Develop the architecture and design deliverables and provide support as an Azure SME.
• Gather specifications and deliver solutions to the organization based on understanding of Microsoft Azure domain/technology.
• Effectively present public and hybrid cloud-based architectural design concepts and solutions to all levels in the organization.
• Drive decision making, identify alternatives, pros and cons, and make recommendations.
• Anticipate when architectural change will be needed and prepare the organization for a successful transition.
• Build public and hybrid cloud-based, optimized reference applications/infrastructure, show-casing event driven, elastically scalable, fault tolerance and other cloud architecture patterns.
• Drive public and hybrid cloud-based, proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our customer how technology can be leveraged.
• Identify, analyze and resolve the most complex public and hybrid cloud-based issues. Identify and balance risks and rewards to meet objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 6+ years' experience; Masters degree and 5 years' experience.
• Minimum three (3) years experience and proven success in Azure design, support and management within a large-scale organization
• Direct experience in Cloud platform technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud, etc.
• Proven expert knowledge of virtual application delivery technologies
• Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies
• Experience supporting and documenting build and configuration changes throughout environments
• Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools
• Experience in the design, deployment, and support of large, complex systems