Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

  • Phoenix, AZ
  • Posted 60+ days ago | Updated 1 day ago

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Azure Cloud Engineer
Azure Networking
Identity
Landing Zones
Azure Advisor
Azure Policy
C#
Python
JavaScript
CI/CD pipelines

Job Details

Job Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Duration: Long Term Contract

Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud computing, specifically with Microsoft Azure, and will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing our cloud infrastructure. This role requires excellent problem-solving skills, a deep understanding of cloud services, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure, services and applications using automation.
• Build, deploy and manage Highly Available and Scalable cloud services such as Azure APIM, managed Kubernetes services like AKS or GKE, Storage, Azure Function Apps/Google Cloud Functions, data processing services like DAG, Airflow, Google Composer etc.
• Ensure continuous monitoring of cloud resources, respond to incidents and outages adhering to SLA(s), automating operational tasks, managing backups and disaster recovery plans, and ensuring high availability.
• Manage, maintain, and monitor different infrastructure components (servers, network, applications).
• Provide hands-on technical expertise during service impacting events.
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements and measure, tune and optimize system performance.
• Adhere to security and regulatory best practices involving cloud deployments – implement recommendations from security tools such as MS Defender, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk etc.
• Troubleshoot and remediate issues impacting the operation of the overall infrastructure.
• Automate routine systems tasks and processes using PowerShell or similar tools.
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy of the enterprise environment.
• Build and maintain “playbooks” and other supporting documentation.
• Collaborate with team members to perform regular system audit and security reviews.
• Managing projects/processes, working independently with limited supervision.
• Mentor/train junior Engineers.
• Participate in periodic 24x7 on-call duties.
• Other duties as assigned.

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:
• 5+ years of Cloud Infrastructure experience (Azure or Google Cloud).
• Experience within the financial industry and/or a highly regulated technology organization.
• Expertise in building Cloud services & components using IAC (Infrastructure as Code)
• Expertise in building, deploying, and managing cloud services such as Azure APIM, managed Kubernetes services like AKS or GKE, Storage, Azure Function Apps/Google Cloud Functions, data processing services like DAG, Airflow, Google Composer etc. with a focus on High Availability and Scalability.
• Expertise in setting up Cloud Monitoring and management tools, experience with incident response and troubleshooting, scripting, and automation skills.
• Experienced in implementing information security best practices – using security tools such as MS Defender, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk etc.
• Experience with Observability/Monitoring technologies like Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitoring etc.
• Strong team or technical leadership experience is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Adaptable, innovative and stays current in Cloud technologies.
• Candidates with relevant certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator, are preferred.

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